Try the "Light" mode. It's on the preferences page in the "Customize Slashdot's Display" section. I use it. You might not like it, though, because it totally changes the visual effect. I use it because I still use Netscape 2.02, which doesn't support different background colors for tables and cells, so without it,/. is just black text on a black background.
You don't need a network jack in your head to dictate your thoughts. There is already research underway for using external measurements of brainwaves for computer input (like mouse control). Sorry, but I don't have any links to relevant stories.
Personally, I think that voice recognition and eye tracking (for mouse control, in particular) are the most promissing up and coming technologies for computer input.
My understanding is that this is a libc5-based distribution, but has runtime support for glibc-2.0.7-pre6, but no runtime support for glibc-2.1 or glibc-2.1.1-pre1.
Glibc is in a state of flux, particularly with 2.1 being recalled. 2.0.6 is, so I hear, buggy. 2.0.7 is still a -pre6 release, though everyone seems to pretend that it is a real release. 2.1 is another big step, but it's not clear that it is ready for stable systems.
So the choices are: Use libc5. It works, is stable, but not trendy. Use glibc2.0.7-pre6. It works, is stable, but you'll have to transition to 2.1 soon, anyway. Use glibc2.1.1-pre1. It might work, is relatively untested, but is what everyone will eventually be moving to.
Personally, I think Slackware made a reasonable choice. I wouldn't compile for glibc2.0, as that's a dead-end library. Why bother making that transition? Instead, provide the runtime support for the binaries that require it, release another libc5 system, and focus development on glibc2.1.
I have M1 in Cambridge, MA. The cable modem is truely one of the great wonders of the world. The channel selection is great, except that when they added Sci-Fi, Comedy Central, Cartoon, History, and a few lesser channels, they called them the "New Choice" package, and charged extra for them.
I've never had a cable company that was perfect, but MediaOne is the closest I've seen.
I like the pure democracy idea of everyone being able to vote on articles. In turn, people could decide that they don't care about particular users' opinions, so they could tell the system to ignore votes by those users when displaying articles.
The only trick is anonimity. How do you stop people from voting twice, but insure that they can vote once? Perhaps only allowed loged-in users to vote. Then if you see an article with a strange rating, you could see who voted to cause that rating, check to see what else the voted on, and then set to ignore the weirdos whose votes you don't like.
Of course, a lot of people like to post as anonymous cowards, even if they don't mind loging in in principle. For such people, you could add a check box to the posting page for "anonymous post." (It could also be a default in the user profile.)
Still, if you let people see who cast the votes, that means voting is never anonymous. Personally, I don't think that's a bad thing. If only some votes were anonymous, I would set my preferences to ignore anonymous votes.
I think that would work.
Then we would all want to vote on what we thought of each person's voting history, so as to generate a normalized vote weighting system.:)
Yes, that's true, except that in theory, even if you overwrite as you describe, there is enough residual magnetetic information on the disk that someone who is really determined can still get the information off of it.
Someone like Drivesavers might be able to do that.
Using something like/dev/random would be better. Using shred is best. You may want to note that there are actually government standards for erasing sensitive data that programs like shred will often try to meet.
Last fall, I saw one of those at Disney World. You could select all your favorite Disney songs. It was a bit more expensive, as I recall, but everything at Disney World is expensive.
It's just a matter of time before these become commonplace. Well, time and licensing. The record companies will probably want $2/song, or something obscene like that.
As an EMC employee, I hope they're using our stuff. (We make storage systems with up to 9 terabytes, and strive to have the best performance, the best reliability, and the highest prices, or something like that.)
I'm not in the part of the company that deals with such things, but I wouldn't be surprised if we have a partnership deal with Oracle, whereby their software is specially optimized for our storage systems.
I'm in about the same situation as you, except that after using cdparanoia and bladeenc, I use id3ren to tag the files, so the artist, album, year, and such are all stored in the file, and players like mpg123 can display the info.
Unfortunately, the tags don't let you have enough characters for long names, and there isn't an entry for track number (some albums sound better if you play them in order, so I use the comment field to log the track number). I saw some reference to a newer tagging method somewhere--is there a new revision to the tagging standard?
Perhaps what would really be cool is if they put a headphone jack into the PalmPilot, so you could use it as an MP3 player. Why have all the memory and processing power dedicated to a specific task when you can use it for anything you want?
For that matter, this could be a chance for Creative to get into the PDA market.
Yes, CDs can skip, but with a mere one Meg of memory, you can read ahead a full minute, so that shouldn't be an issue.
True, spinning a CD will consume batteries faster, but it will still last much longer than traditional CD players. Imagine one with four Megs of RAM: It would initially fill its memory and then stop. After playing 3 Megs, it would replenish its memory while playing the last quarter of its memory. This might need to be adjusted slightly for high bitrate MP3s, but would work well.
Or does spinning up the CD take more power than keeping it spinning for a few minutes?
In a report yesterday on a leak of today's offical report, I saw something about instead requiring ISPs to log all traffic, keeping everything for a week (that could be terabytes of data), and also alert the government if they detect encrypted traffic. Is there any news of that, or was that part of what was rejected?
It looks just fine with Netscape 3.04 with Java Script turned off. With Netscape 2.02, I expect it would look funny as that doesn't support background colors for tables or cells.
First of all, this only applies to copyrighted material. The point is that you aren't permitted to make unauthorized copies of copyrighted material. Technically, copies could include network caches, local disk, and even main memory. What the EU is doing is letting the copyright holder consider such temporary copies--they now have the right to restrict such usage.
In practice, most copyrighted material for which there is no license fee would be released under terms that allow copying into caches and such.
Furthermore, if the material is on the web and is not flagged as being non-cachable, then implicitly, the publisher is authorizing proxy caches and local disk caches to keep a copy of the material.
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Try the "Light" mode. It's on the preferences page in the "Customize Slashdot's Display" section. I use it. You might not like it, though, because it totally changes the visual effect. I use it because I still use Netscape 2.02, which doesn't support different background colors for tables and cells, so without it, /. is just black text on a black background.
You don't need a network jack in your head to dictate your thoughts. There is already research underway for using external measurements of brainwaves for computer input (like mouse control). Sorry, but I don't have any links to relevant stories.
Personally, I think that voice recognition and eye tracking (for mouse control, in particular) are the most promissing up and coming technologies for computer input.
My understanding is that this is a libc5-based distribution, but has runtime support for glibc-2.0.7-pre6, but no runtime support for glibc-2.1 or glibc-2.1.1-pre1.
Glibc is in a state of flux, particularly with 2.1 being recalled. 2.0.6 is, so I hear, buggy. 2.0.7 is still a -pre6 release, though everyone seems to pretend that it is a real release. 2.1 is another big step, but it's not clear that it is ready for stable systems.
So the choices are:
Use libc5. It works, is stable, but not trendy.
Use glibc2.0.7-pre6. It works, is stable, but you'll have to transition to 2.1 soon, anyway.
Use glibc2.1.1-pre1. It might work, is relatively untested, but is what everyone will eventually be moving to.
Personally, I think Slackware made a reasonable choice. I wouldn't compile for glibc2.0, as that's a dead-end library. Why bother making that transition? Instead, provide the runtime support for the binaries that require it, release another libc5 system, and focus development on glibc2.1.
I have M1 in Cambridge, MA. The cable modem is truely one of the great wonders of the world. The channel selection is great, except that when they added Sci-Fi, Comedy Central, Cartoon, History, and a few lesser channels, they called them the "New Choice" package, and charged extra for them.
I've never had a cable company that was perfect, but MediaOne is the closest I've seen.
I like the pure democracy idea of everyone being able to vote on articles. In turn, people could decide that they don't care about particular users' opinions, so they could tell the system to ignore votes by those users when displaying articles.
:)
The only trick is anonimity. How do you stop people from voting twice, but insure that they can vote once? Perhaps only allowed loged-in users to vote. Then if you see an article with a strange rating, you could see who voted to cause that rating, check to see what else the voted on, and then set to ignore the weirdos whose votes you don't like.
Of course, a lot of people like to post as anonymous cowards, even if they don't mind loging in in principle. For such people, you could add a check box to the posting page for "anonymous post." (It could also be a default in the user profile.)
Still, if you let people see who cast the votes, that means voting is never anonymous. Personally, I don't think that's a bad thing. If only some votes were anonymous, I would set my preferences to ignore anonymous votes.
I think that would work.
Then we would all want to vote on what we thought of each person's voting history, so as to generate a normalized vote weighting system.
Yes, that's true, except that in theory, even if you overwrite as you describe, there is enough residual magnetetic information on the disk that someone who is really determined can still get the information off of it.
/dev/random would be better. Using shred is best. You may want to note that there are actually government standards for erasing sensitive data that programs like shred will often try to meet.
Someone like Drivesavers might be able to do that.
Using something like
Last fall, I saw one of those at Disney World. You could select all your favorite Disney songs. It was a bit more expensive, as I recall, but everything at Disney World is expensive.
It's just a matter of time before these become commonplace. Well, time and licensing. The record companies will probably want $2/song, or something obscene like that.
At least it's not a money grab by the studio. I wonder if they'll include those showings in the official box office totals?
What storage system are they using?
As an EMC employee, I hope they're using our stuff. (We make storage systems with up to 9 terabytes, and strive to have the best performance, the best reliability, and the highest prices, or something like that.)
I'm not in the part of the company that deals with such things, but I wouldn't be surprised if we have a partnership deal with Oracle, whereby their software is specially optimized for our storage systems.
I can think of (Microsoft) a few companies that (Microsoft) could conceivably (Microsoft) be nominated. Gimme a minute to think about it.
I think the thing with includeing MAC addresses in documents without telling people is much worse.
Of course, emacs can be used to solve any problem. (That's why I run a emacs/Linux system.) :)
What we need for tagging MP3s is an emacs MP3 mode. Just load an MP3 into emacs, and it's set up for editing the tags.
Anyone want to write one?
I'm in about the same situation as you, except that after using cdparanoia and bladeenc, I use id3ren to tag the files, so the artist, album, year, and such are all stored in the file, and players like mpg123 can display the info.
Unfortunately, the tags don't let you have enough characters for long names, and there isn't an entry for track number (some albums sound better if you play them in order, so I use the comment field to log the track number). I saw some reference to a newer tagging method somewhere--is there a new revision to the tagging standard?
Perhaps what would really be cool is if they put a headphone jack into the PalmPilot, so you could use it as an MP3 player. Why have all the memory and processing power dedicated to a specific task when you can use it for anything you want?
For that matter, this could be a chance for Creative to get into the PDA market.
Yes, CDs can skip, but with a mere one Meg of memory, you can read ahead a full minute, so that shouldn't be an issue.
True, spinning a CD will consume batteries faster, but it will still last much longer than traditional CD players. Imagine one with four Megs of RAM: It would initially fill its memory and then stop. After playing 3 Megs, it would replenish its memory while playing the last quarter of its memory. This might need to be adjusted slightly for high bitrate MP3s, but would work well.
Or does spinning up the CD take more power than keeping it spinning for a few minutes?
In a report yesterday on a leak of today's offical report, I saw something about instead requiring ISPs to log all traffic, keeping everything for a week (that could be terabytes of data), and also alert the government if they detect encrypted traffic. Is there any news of that, or was that part of what was rejected?
I hope I was just misreading it.
What we need is a CD-ROM based MP3 player. That would be really cool.
JavaScript: More evil than Microsoft
So where is 2.0.7? I only up through 2.0.6 at prep.ai.mit.edu.
First of all, this only applies to copyrighted material. The point is that you aren't permitted to make unauthorized copies of copyrighted material. Technically, copies could include network caches, local disk, and even main memory. What the EU is doing is letting the copyright holder consider such temporary copies--they now have the right to restrict such usage.
In practice, most copyrighted material for which there is no license fee would be released under terms that allow copying into caches and such.
Furthermore, if the material is on the web and is not flagged as being non-cachable, then implicitly, the publisher is authorizing proxy caches and local disk caches to keep a copy of the material.