Aee is smaller than vi or any of its clones, and one can use it without instructions. Very good for editing system files. Fits just fine on a single-disk Linux system.
Handles DOS-format files as well. Very important when you are developing an embedded product that runs DOS but are connected to it over a serial port running Linux, and you have no way to edit files other than dowloading them, editing them, then uploading them again.
Sound goofy? That's what my job is right now - developing an update to an embedded system running DOS (that way we don't have to rewrite the software). Aee is a lifesaver since I connect to 2 systems at once and use Linux and Minicom to do it (DOS can't).
Re:Not paying during bankruptcy not :"illegal"
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If the company is in Chapter 11 (still operating but being reorganized) employees must still be paid if they are working, but if we're talking about Chapter 7 (liquidation) then the employees are probably SOL.
Employees are usually considered unsecured creditors as far as the US Bankruptcy Code is concerened. They get paid with whatever money is left after secured creditors (banks, suppliers, CEO's Golden Parachute, etc.) are paid. Holding company assets as "hostage" will just get a person thrown in jail for theft.
I've known several people who were never paid their final check after being canned when their company filed Chapter 7. They had no recourse whatsoever as it wasn't enough to sue the company over (which they couldn't do anyway while the company was in bankruptcy court). All they could do is file a claim with the court and pray.
This was in Arizona, which has few labor laws of its own (it is a right-to-work state that follows federal laws only reluctantly due to our anti-Federal-gummint attitude here). Other states may be different so you have to check your own laws.
It has a few instabilites but overall it is usable. It also defaults to the "place" manager rather than the unprofessional-looking "pack" manager, although both of those and "grid" are available. It also defaults to bold fonts which are absolutely hideous.
It would also be nice if there was a version for Python/Tkinter.
And that's only if you log in in console mode. If you use XDM/KDM all you have to do is type your username and your WM of choice is automagically selected.
With Linux, the interface is just there - whichever one you happen to like.
The definition of "Liberal" today is "Democratic Socialism," where the federal government has most of the economic power. The old-line liberals of the past (Hubert Humphrey, Jack Kennedy, and the like) are spinning in their graves over what their Democratic Pary has become in the last 20 years.
While Clinton and Gore are a bit more conservative than previous Democratic nominees for president (Dukakis or Mondale, for example), they still believe that power must be concentrated in Washington and they know what's best for us.
Today's Libertarians are more like the classic liberals of the '50s than the Democrats are. Unfortunately they tend toward wanting the total elimination of government (aka Anarchy) rather than just enough government to do the job, especially the Libertarians in the western states.
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It's free, not written by Micro$oft, and it is probably the best editor for the Wincrap platform ever written. It has sidebars for HTML and a few other things, plus it can strip HTML tags automatically and completely (very few errors).
Those pretty much went away with QuickBasic (one of the few things Micro$oft got right) in the mid '80s. Although, if you check closely, GOTO is available in C as well (although no one actually uses it anymore than they use it in most versions of BASIC written in the last 15 years).
So c'mon, BASIC haters, quit whining. Line-numbered, GOTO'd BASICs disappeared in the '80s. Those arguments against it disappeared years ago when GW-Basic/BasicA/Extended Color Basic died.
The only exception is HP/HT/Rocky Mountain BASIC (used for engineering test stations and the like), probably THE worst language ever produced by anybody. And, unfortunately, that one is still around.
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The end of that sig should read "If you are having problems with our products please go to Helen Waite." #$%& 120-character limit!
>>2. The FCC governs public or quazi-public mediums. The internet is not public. It is a private tool. It was developed by the US government but now is not a tool of the US government. It belongs to no one and at the same time the people who own the hardware that make it go.
Which is it? A private tool or one that belongs to no one, therefore owned by the public? I believe you're right on the latter. The government turned it over to the private sector in 1990 or so. But, while the internet backbone is privately owned - like telephone lines, it is also a public resource, like telephone lines.
The telephone industry is highly regulated by the FCC as far as technical standards are concerned, but not as far as what you can say over the phone. This alone I believe is a precedent for the FCC to be able to regulate technical standards on the internet if they wish to (right now they don't).
I really do believe that it would be a Good Thing(TM) for the FCC to assure that all communications protocols intended for the general public (ie, IM, Streaming Media, and the like) be open standards. There can be many open standards, but all content intended for public consumption should be available to all (for example, Winblows Media Player content should be available for Linux users). This would not prevent such things as secure eCommerce or on-line banking - things that require secure protocols. But these things are private, not for the public at large.
The bottom line, in my view, is that if content is intended for the general public, be it web-pages (NO M$ "extensions" should be allowed), streaming media (Anyone should be able to write a RealPlayer or WMP clone), or IM (either AIM or GAIM should work), the standards and protocols must be made public. Even if there is no FCC rule requiring a certain standard, it is the job of the FCC to assure that all public content is available to all.
It is as much a communications protocol as AM or FM radio. That puts it under the regulatory power of the FCC and their equivalents in other countries. It is their job to set communications standards, something that they have been extremely lax on for the last 20 years.
All communications over the internet intended for the general public should be free and open standards even if the exact source code of a given program isn't free. This goes for RealPlayer and Winblows Media Player as well as AIM and their ilk.
Just because the FCC, etc. has refused to require open communications standards in the past doesn't mean that they won't require it in the future. I think this is long overdue.
Not that broadcasting licenses should be required, but the FCC should mandate which streaming formats are allowed and open them up!
No more proprietary RealAudio or Windows Media Player standards. The specs/formats should be made public just like the standards for AM, FM, and TV are.
Unfortunately, the FCC has been completely gutless in setting standards of any kind for many years, going back to the '70s. This has to change. All forms of communications are required to serve the "public interest, convenience, and necessity" and that includes the internet. The FCC is mandated to enforce this but chooses not to do so, even though they do have the right to. Open-sourcing streaming media standards would go a long way to accomplish this.
You have to go to the Fox River cities like Elgin or Aurora or to Gary, IN (about 1 hour drive each), but there are riverboat casinos in the Chicago area and they've been there for years.
None in the city, though. Don't know about Minneapolis/St. Paul.
Once it is in working order (years from now?). They have said as much.
And, no matter what anybody else says, they are an ally of the FSF and if King Richard the Obnoxious proclaimeth that Only The Hurd Is Part Of GNU And Thou Shalt Removeth Thy Heathen Linux From Thine Distro, Debian will remove the Linux kernel from their distro.
Their loss since Debian, along with the FSF, will become completely irrelevant if that happens. They can do as they please, of course, but they also have to pay the consequences. Political correctness has its price and has no business in the computer world.
It just has to be configured the old-fashioned way - by editing text files and restarting when finished.
Not particularly user-friendly but you can make it look almost whatever way you want.
And it's far faster than KWM (or just about everything else), far less bloated than Enlightenment, and can be made as pretty as WindowMaker or as butt-ugly as the now-obsolete TWM.
It is a Windows Explorer lookalike (sorry) but it is quite functional. Far better than the butt-ugly XFM or DFM. And it doesn't require either KDE or GNOME.
Although my file manager of choice is still the old console-based Midnight Commander. You can use it in either console mode or in an X window with equal functionality and it does FTP extremely well. It still has a few minor crash problems but they are rare.
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The framers of the Constitution were Christians...
Many were Deists - People who believed in a supreme being but did not subscribe to any organized religion. The author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, was one.
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I thought the explanation made it clear. I did mean "in business" not in the whole world.
And many of the limitations of the download version are circumventable, Baron of Greymatter!!
I hope so, but I haven't tried doing it yet. 500 Mb isn't a whole lot, although it does leave about 300 Mb free after install. I don't want to repartition since my 1st drive is FAT32 with Wincrap (need it for work unfortunately) and loopback versions of BeOS and Linux and my 2nd drive is 100% Linux and I want to keep it that way. A 2nd loopback filesystem for BeOS would be nice, though.
Don't get me wrong - BeOS is a nice system but I wonder if it really is too late for it. I hope not.
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In Netscape, if you disable Javascript they won't appear in the first place.
Aee is smaller than vi or any of its clones, and one can use it without instructions. Very good for editing system files. Fits just fine on a single-disk Linux system.
Handles DOS-format files as well. Very important when you are developing an embedded product that runs DOS but are connected to it over a serial port running Linux, and you have no way to edit files other than dowloading them, editing them, then uploading them again.
Sound goofy? That's what my job is right now - developing an update to an embedded system running DOS (that way we don't have to rewrite the software). Aee is a lifesaver since I connect to 2 systems at once and use Linux and Minicom to do it (DOS can't).
If the company is in Chapter 11 (still operating but being reorganized) employees must still be paid if they are working, but if we're talking about Chapter 7 (liquidation) then the employees are probably SOL.
Employees are usually considered unsecured creditors as far as the US Bankruptcy Code is concerened. They get paid with whatever money is left after secured creditors (banks, suppliers, CEO's Golden Parachute, etc.) are paid. Holding company assets as "hostage" will just get a person thrown in jail for theft.
I've known several people who were never paid their final check after being canned when their company filed Chapter 7. They had no recourse whatsoever as it wasn't enough to sue the company over (which they couldn't do anyway while the company was in bankruptcy court). All they could do is file a claim with the court and pray.
This was in Arizona, which has few labor laws of its own (it is a right-to-work state that follows federal laws only reluctantly due to our anti-Federal-gummint attitude here). Other states may be different so you have to check your own laws.
IANAL either.
It has a few instabilites but overall it is usable. It also defaults to the "place" manager rather than the unprofessional-looking "pack" manager, although both of those and "grid" are available. It also defaults to bold fonts which are absolutely hideous.
It would also be nice if there was a version for Python/Tkinter.
And that's only if you log in in console mode. If you use XDM/KDM all you have to do is type your username and your WM of choice is automagically selected.
With Linux, the interface is just there - whichever one you happen to like.
At least since mid-1999, for about $10 with no manuals.
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The definition of "Liberal" today is "Democratic Socialism," where the federal government has most of the economic power. The old-line liberals of the past (Hubert Humphrey, Jack Kennedy, and the like) are spinning in their graves over what their Democratic Pary has become in the last 20 years.
While Clinton and Gore are a bit more conservative than previous Democratic nominees for president (Dukakis or Mondale, for example), they still believe that power must be concentrated in Washington and they know what's best for us.
Today's Libertarians are more like the classic liberals of the '50s than the Democrats are. Unfortunately they tend toward wanting the total elimination of government (aka Anarchy) rather than just enough government to do the job, especially the Libertarians in the western states.
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It's free, not written by Micro$oft, and it is probably the best editor for the Wincrap platform ever written. It has sidebars for HTML and a few other things, plus it can strip HTML tags automatically and completely (very few errors).
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It is available at www.notetab.com
And, oh BTW, it runs rather well under WINE but it's a bit slow and the icons in the toolbar don't always show. But all other functions work.
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Got the same results this morning. Had the same thing happen with the last 2 Mozilla builds.
Windows version works just fine (or at least as well as IE 5.5, which is not that great).
Those pretty much went away with QuickBasic (one of the few things Micro$oft got right) in the mid '80s. Although, if you check closely, GOTO is available in C as well (although no one actually uses it anymore than they use it in most versions of BASIC written in the last 15 years).
So c'mon, BASIC haters, quit whining. Line-numbered, GOTO'd BASICs disappeared in the '80s. Those arguments against it disappeared years ago when GW-Basic/BasicA/Extended Color Basic died.
The only exception is HP/HT/Rocky Mountain BASIC (used for engineering test stations and the like), probably THE worst language ever produced by anybody. And, unfortunately, that one is still around.
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The end of that sig should read "If you are having problems with our products please go to Helen Waite." #$%& 120-character limit!
>>2. The FCC governs public or quazi-public mediums. The internet is not public. It is a private tool. It was developed by the US government but now is not a tool of the US government. It belongs to no one and at the same time the people who own the hardware that make it go.
Which is it? A private tool or one that belongs to no one, therefore owned by the public? I believe you're right on the latter. The government turned it over to the private sector in 1990 or so. But, while the internet backbone is privately owned - like telephone lines, it is also a public resource, like telephone lines.
The telephone industry is highly regulated by the FCC as far as technical standards are concerned, but not as far as what you can say over the phone. This alone I believe is a precedent for the FCC to be able to regulate technical standards on the internet if they wish to (right now they don't).
I really do believe that it would be a Good Thing(TM) for the FCC to assure that all communications protocols intended for the general public (ie, IM, Streaming Media, and the like) be open standards. There can be many open standards, but all content intended for public consumption should be available to all (for example, Winblows Media Player content should be available for Linux users). This would not prevent such things as secure eCommerce or on-line banking - things that require secure protocols. But these things are private, not for the public at large.
The bottom line, in my view, is that if content is intended for the general public, be it web-pages (NO M$ "extensions" should be allowed), streaming media (Anyone should be able to write a RealPlayer or WMP clone), or IM (either AIM or GAIM should work), the standards and protocols must be made public. Even if there is no FCC rule requiring a certain standard, it is the job of the FCC to assure that all public content is available to all.
All communications over the internet intended for the general public should be free and open standards even if the exact source code of a given program isn't free. This goes for RealPlayer and Winblows Media Player as well as AIM and their ilk.
Just because the FCC, etc. has refused to require open communications standards in the past doesn't mean that they won't require it in the future. I think this is long overdue.
Today AIM, tomorrow WMP and RealPlayer!
On the box for the video are the words "Tom Arnold Is Stupid" in big letters. That's the best example of truth-in-advertising I've ever seen.
Bill Gates has to have his panties in a snit about this. MSZDNet is the unofficial shill for Microsoft.
No more proprietary RealAudio or Windows Media Player standards. The specs/formats should be made public just like the standards for AM, FM, and TV are.
Unfortunately, the FCC has been completely gutless in setting standards of any kind for many years, going back to the '70s. This has to change. All forms of communications are required to serve the "public interest, convenience, and necessity" and that includes the internet. The FCC is mandated to enforce this but chooses not to do so, even though they do have the right to. Open-sourcing streaming media standards would go a long way to accomplish this.
A day's drive or less from KC, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Memphis. If it was there it might have attracted a bigger crowd.
You have to go to the Fox River cities like Elgin or Aurora or to Gary, IN (about 1 hour drive each), but there are riverboat casinos in the Chicago area and they've been there for years.
None in the city, though. Don't know about Minneapolis/St. Paul.
And, no matter what anybody else says, they are an ally of the FSF and if King Richard the Obnoxious proclaimeth that Only The Hurd Is Part Of GNU And Thou Shalt Removeth Thy Heathen Linux From Thine Distro, Debian will remove the Linux kernel from their distro.
Their loss since Debian, along with the FSF, will become completely irrelevant if that happens. They can do as they please, of course, but they also have to pay the consequences. Political correctness has its price and has no business in the computer world.
Not particularly user-friendly but you can make it look almost whatever way you want.
And it's far faster than KWM (or just about everything else), far less bloated than Enlightenment, and can be made as pretty as WindowMaker or as butt-ugly as the now-obsolete TWM.
Although my file manager of choice is still the old console-based Midnight Commander. You can use it in either console mode or in an X window with equal functionality and it does FTP extremely well. It still has a few minor crash problems but they are rare.
Many were Deists - People who believed in a supreme being but did not subscribe to any organized religion. The author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, was one.
I may be cynical but I'm not that cynical.
BofG
I hope so, but I haven't tried doing it yet. 500 Mb isn't a whole lot, although it does leave about 300 Mb free after install. I don't want to repartition since my 1st drive is FAT32 with Wincrap (need it for work unfortunately) and loopback versions of BeOS and Linux and my 2nd drive is 100% Linux and I want to keep it that way. A 2nd loopback filesystem for BeOS would be nice, though.
Don't get me wrong - BeOS is a nice system but I wonder if it really is too late for it. I hope not.