One would think that if languages evolve, they would progress in step with greater enlightenment on the part of their users. Racial slurs such as "to gyp" or "to jew" someone else should fall by the wayside as people come to realize the origin and significance of such phrases.
aside: aspell does not like the word "jew" but "Jew" it is happy with. "gyp" it is also happy with.
In my opinon enlightened people shouldn't get all up in arms about the history of words. Human history is rich and diverse and you can't run and hide from it; personally I think that it's the black marks (oh, is that another slur?) and scuffs and dings that a language picks up as it ages that makes it interesting. Sanitizing the world won't make it any safer; people need to understand that a certain amount of skin thickness is required in order to be a viable living organism and it's my opinion that we as a society have allowed the acceptable thickness to grow far too thin. This leads to bullshit such as party hosts getting sued for dumbass guests drinking and driving, the removal of historic uses of "God" (I'm not particularly religious) from government documents and of course the kinds of things we're talking about here today (sanitization of language).
Yes, this is all heading off-topic, but my little worldview that those with sub-10000 UIDs wouldn't forward such a foolish position lies shattered on the floor...
I don't know, I feel I am being particularly lucid at this moment. I am not just spouting off without reasoning, nor am I trolling -- I don't know why your worldview is so shattered. I'd like to think that the sub-10k crowd has been there, done that and are kind of like the crusty old men you see who are very hard to impress. I know that I am particularly sick of people crying "Ooh, I'm offended! I'm offended! Someone please do something to prevent someone else from offending me!" -- Buck up, Charlie, you can't go through life demanding that other people make you feel happy. If the OP had intentionally slurred I'd have a different opinion on this whole thread, but I don't think he was.
Oh, whatever. I bet you get all up in arms about people using the word "gypped" too, don't you?
Language evolves continuously. I'm positive the OP did not mean it as a slur against Jewish people but rather as the slang that it is. Oversensitive people like you are exactly what's wrong with the world.
I do the exact same thing, but with a score of 12. Anything that trips the filter as spam gets dumped into a spam folder off the main maildir and they can use IMAP or check with webmail to see what spam they have. A cron script erases anything in the spam folder older than 2 weeks. Oh yeah, and individual users can alter their own white/blacklists and scores since I pull the username and match the scores in a postgres database. Combined with clamd and qmail-scanner, it's heaven.:-)
As for the incoming mail I found that checking against a couple of RBLs has made ALL the difference in keeping the system load down. tcpserver checks against a.cdb file filled with entries from CBL and DNSRBL. Anything matching doesn't even see the real SMTP server and thus doesn't get scanned at all.
A+ for CUPS from me, too. It seamlessly took the.ppd file for our Canon IR5500 "do-everything" printer at work here and CUPS (and KDE, by extension) knew all about the paper trays, duplexer and all the bells and whistles. No screwing around.
Well maybe a little -- you had to put the.ppd file in the right directory and restart CUPS for it to see it, but that was it.
Well I can say from experience that noatun was not stable, ever. It was cool if you could get it to work but I've certainly never seen it stable. JuK has just plain old worked since Day One.
To be honest though, I don't think that Gnome's libraries (gaim, evolution, etc.) are built in such a way as they can be embedded. Practically everything KDE seems to be.
It's nothing like the metric system -- oftentimes I'm just perusing my home directory -- I don't want a bazillion windows open just in case I might want to do drag'n'drop between them. It's the same reason I do all my web browsing in tabs <gasp< even with different sites! -- if I need to, I will detach the tab I want to work with and copy/paste or do whatever I need with it. the whole "get used to it" is assinine -- I know what I'm trying to do, and making it difficult for me to do because of some dumbass political/philosophical reasoning on the side of the Gnome developers is a fast way for me to deep-six the environment.
Oh wait, I already did that because of their insistence of buidling a mediocre replacement for C++ in C because of political reasons... oh well.
The high school I went to has a couple of computer labs purchased entirely by Microsoft -- all decent machines, office, Win2k, the whole thing... An agreement to license SO doesn't mean a whole lot, unfortunately.
Routers and motherboards with a secondary BIOS or firmware are all stored in Flash, my friend... ROM is far too expensive to make -- it's cheap in terms of materials but expensive since you have to mass-produce them to get any kind of value. The more common thing to do is have sectored flash, in which you can lock sectors (usually either the topmost or bottommost sector) and prevent a reflash from screwing it.
How do you upgrade the locked sector? Typically you don't. You make it small and low-level enough that all it does is loop in an "accept a flash record" routine if it doesn't like the checksum of the main flash body.
Why yes, I do embedded systems design for a living, how could you tell?
You forgot the most important -- storing two copies of firmware means either a) more money spent on flash that is used so very infrequently or b) less memory for cutesy ringtones or another lame-ass game.
Can you meaningfully use OpenOffice with pipes and cron? No.
Actually you can (cron, but not so much pipes) -- OO supports quite a few command line switches and it also has remote control protocols and macros which make things like converting between formats, searching for text and other goodies easily done from the CLI or from remote.
I designed the controllers they use for their heater jackets.
It's interesting tech -- I read an article about them sometime last year and sent it around the office saying "hey that's cool!" -- about 5 months later I got a call saying that equipment from the place I work at was in there and it wasn't working, and to please get my ass down there over labour day weekend. Neat trip, really cool technology, great bunch of guys.
I got my stuff working correctly and now I see they're in production. Amazing stuff, I wish I had heard about them earlier, I would have definitely invested money in them. They seem to be at the point now where they can pick and choose their investors and I'm afraid I haven't got the kind of money they'd be seeking as a minimum investment from "new money". *sigh*
We should really be able to milk this for all it's worth; there's a lot at steak [sic]. Let's just hope it's not udderly ridiculous, as it behooves us to grab the bull by the horns and find alternative fuels. Hopefully this steers the industry into greener pastures.
Just FYI it's not the A/D that's causing that lag, it's the hardware or software (depending on card) encoding to MPEG2 then taking the MPEG2 stream and straining it through a hardware or software MPEG2 decoder. The Hauppage WinTV PVR250/350 series do this. A straight BT8x8-based video capture board has no appreciable lag since it's not actually doing any format conversion; it's a straight NTSC/PAL to framebuffer capture board.
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- I'm positive the OP did not mean it as a slur against Jewish people . .
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What in the post convinced you of that?Just the "vibe" of the message. I could be wrong, of course, but my message was based upon that "vibe".
One would think that if languages evolve, they would progress in step with greater enlightenment on the part of their users. Racial slurs such as "to gyp" or "to jew" someone else should fall by the wayside as people come to realize the origin and significance of such phrases.
aside: aspell does not like the word "jew" but "Jew" it is happy with. "gyp" it is also happy with.
In my opinon enlightened people shouldn't get all up in arms about the history of words. Human history is rich and diverse and you can't run and hide from it; personally I think that it's the black marks (oh, is that another slur?) and scuffs and dings that a language picks up as it ages that makes it interesting. Sanitizing the world won't make it any safer; people need to understand that a certain amount of skin thickness is required in order to be a viable living organism and it's my opinion that we as a society have allowed the acceptable thickness to grow far too thin. This leads to bullshit such as party hosts getting sued for dumbass guests drinking and driving, the removal of historic uses of "God" (I'm not particularly religious) from government documents and of course the kinds of things we're talking about here today (sanitization of language).
Yes, this is all heading off-topic, but my little worldview that those with sub-10000 UIDs wouldn't forward such a foolish position lies shattered on the floor...
I don't know, I feel I am being particularly lucid at this moment. I am not just spouting off without reasoning, nor am I trolling -- I don't know why your worldview is so shattered. I'd like to think that the sub-10k crowd has been there, done that and are kind of like the crusty old men you see who are very hard to impress. I know that I am particularly sick of people crying "Ooh, I'm offended! I'm offended! Someone please do something to prevent someone else from offending me!" -- Buck up, Charlie, you can't go through life demanding that other people make you feel happy. If the OP had intentionally slurred I'd have a different opinion on this whole thread, but I don't think he was.
I just learned that this year too, on Linux-Elitists of all places. :-)
Oh, whatever. I bet you get all up in arms about people using the word "gypped" too, don't you?
Language evolves continuously. I'm positive the OP did not mean it as a slur against Jewish people but rather as the slang that it is. Oversensitive people like you are exactly what's wrong with the world.
I do the exact same thing, but with a score of 12. Anything that trips the filter as spam gets dumped into a spam folder off the main maildir and they can use IMAP or check with webmail to see what spam they have. A cron script erases anything in the spam folder older than 2 weeks. Oh yeah, and individual users can alter their own white/blacklists and scores since I pull the username and match the scores in a postgres database. Combined with clamd and qmail-scanner, it's heaven. :-)
As for the incoming mail I found that checking against a couple of RBLs has made ALL the difference in keeping the system load down. tcpserver checks against a .cdb file filled with entries from CBL and DNSRBL. Anything matching doesn't even see the real SMTP server and thus doesn't get scanned at all.
A+ for CUPS from me, too. It seamlessly took the .ppd file for our Canon IR5500 "do-everything" printer at work here and CUPS (and KDE, by extension) knew all about the paper trays, duplexer and all the bells and whistles. No screwing around.
Well maybe a little -- you had to put the .ppd file in the right directory and restart CUPS for it to see it, but that was it.
But then again, I'm in canada and pay way less for broadband then americans anyway
Yeah but they bundled it with that cheap-o Predsident's Choice Real Maple Syrup...
Well I can say from experience that noatun was not stable, ever. It was cool if you could get it to work but I've certainly never seen it stable. JuK has just plain old worked since Day One.
To be honest though, I don't think that Gnome's libraries (gaim, evolution, etc.) are built in such a way as they can be embedded. Practically everything KDE seems to be.
(ISA doesn't have the bandwidth to do software modems)
What the hell are you talking about? The voice frames would be coming in/out at no more than 8kHz. A good ISA sound card takes up more ISA bandwidth.
I'm not sure that entanglement will ever work itself out
heh heh heh... not quite as subtle as I normally like my puns, but good nontheless.
It's nothing like the metric system -- oftentimes I'm just perusing my home directory -- I don't want a bazillion windows open just in case I might want to do drag'n'drop between them. It's the same reason I do all my web browsing in tabs <gasp< even with different sites! -- if I need to, I will detach the tab I want to work with and copy/paste or do whatever I need with it. the whole "get used to it" is assinine -- I know what I'm trying to do, and making it difficult for me to do because of some dumbass political/philosophical reasoning on the side of the Gnome developers is a fast way for me to deep-six the environment. Oh wait, I already did that because of their insistence of buidling a mediocre replacement for C++ in C because of political reasons... oh well.
Exactly -- I will use my computer how I see fit, thank you very much. It sounds to me like the Gnome team is getting a little big for their britches.
I hear ya.
The high school I went to has a couple of computer labs purchased entirely by Microsoft -- all decent machines, office, Win2k, the whole thing... An agreement to license SO doesn't mean a whole lot, unfortunately.
Routers and motherboards with a secondary BIOS or firmware are all stored in Flash, my friend... ROM is far too expensive to make -- it's cheap in terms of materials but expensive since you have to mass-produce them to get any kind of value. The more common thing to do is have sectored flash, in which you can lock sectors (usually either the topmost or bottommost sector) and prevent a reflash from screwing it.
How do you upgrade the locked sector? Typically you don't. You make it small and low-level enough that all it does is loop in an "accept a flash record" routine if it doesn't like the checksum of the main flash body.
Why yes, I do embedded systems design for a living, how could you tell?
You forgot the most important -- storing two copies of firmware means either a) more money spent on flash that is used so very infrequently or b) less memory for cutesy ringtones or another lame-ass game.
One of the only games I've ever gotten hooked on. I still have the CDs around here somewhere :-)
:-) funny guy.
Slack 9.1, KDE 3.2.1... I've tried the other distros but I am just getting too old and set in my ways. The package managers always piss me off.
You broke Rule #1 in "what not to do"... heh
Actually, googling for "Error 1278754874928375" shows up nothing. :-)
Can you meaningfully use OpenOffice with pipes and cron? No.
Actually you can (cron, but not so much pipes) -- OO supports quite a few command line switches and it also has remote control protocols and macros which make things like converting between formats, searching for text and other goodies easily done from the CLI or from remote.
What were the skies like when you were young?
Man I remember that song... talk about a blast from the past...
I designed the controllers they use for their heater jackets.
It's interesting tech -- I read an article about them sometime last year and sent it around the office saying "hey that's cool!" -- about 5 months later I got a call saying that equipment from the place I work at was in there and it wasn't working, and to please get my ass down there over labour day weekend. Neat trip, really cool technology, great bunch of guys.
I got my stuff working correctly and now I see they're in production. Amazing stuff, I wish I had heard about them earlier, I would have definitely invested money in them. They seem to be at the point now where they can pick and choose their investors and I'm afraid I haven't got the kind of money they'd be seeking as a minimum investment from "new money". *sigh*
We should really be able to milk this for all it's worth; there's a lot at steak [sic]. Let's just hope it's not udderly ridiculous, as it behooves us to grab the bull by the horns and find alternative fuels. Hopefully this steers the industry into greener pastures.
ok. I think that's out of my system now... Sorry.
perhaps a little less secure but less scalable? Please. You can move it to a different server and update the IP in a heartbeat.
Just FYI it's not the A/D that's causing that lag, it's the hardware or software (depending on card) encoding to MPEG2 then taking the MPEG2 stream and straining it through a hardware or software MPEG2 decoder. The Hauppage WinTV PVR250/350 series do this. A straight BT8x8-based video capture board has no appreciable lag since it's not actually doing any format conversion; it's a straight NTSC/PAL to framebuffer capture board.