Obviously YANAL, if you were you would be forced to admit that the illegal NSA wiretaps constitute a violation of federal law in the form of FISA. This is not a point of debate among the right or the left. The administration would like you to believe (and it sounds like you've been suckered) that the president has the constitutional authority to break any law during wartime. (This 'president is above the law' thinking is reflected not only by the wiretap issue, but also in the administration's written statements that they intend to ignore the McCain anti-torture law recently passed.)
The question you should be asking yourself is "Should (Hillary Clinton/Ted Kennedy/Democratic boogeyman of the day) have unrestricted powers to break any American law they choose? How about if they decided the 2nd ammendment should be ignored and took away your guns? What if they decided that all Republicans should be wiretapped (this smells a little reverse Nixon-ish)?"
Bring the hearings on. I have yet to hear a single non-partisan expert defend the 'legality' of these wiretaps. The only people defending the program are Gonzales, Bush, Cheney, etc. within the administration and partisans hacks tweeting out the GOP approved talking points.
At least this whole ID controversy shifts attention away from the only other meme attached to Kansas, "The Wizard of Oz".
I'm so tired of "where's Toto?" and "we're not in Kansas anymore" and "I'll get your little dog, too" that I welcome our new theocratic state school board overlords.
I have worked extensively with CVS in the past, but my current project has adopted Subversion. Subversion corrects several deficiencies in CVS while retaining a very similar command syntax.
Improvements include: - Atomic commits - Historically trackable file/directory renames, moves, and deletes - Simplified branching and tagging - Less network traffic between client and server - Better binary handling
The big missing component at this time is robust merge tracking. You have to do a little manual work during complex merges from long-lived branches, but that should be addressed in 1.2 or 1.3.
Google for "Over the air" provisioning (or OTA). Most existing J2ME phones support this approach to application provisioning, at least the subset of J2ME phones that I have experience with.
Basically if you can run an HTTP server, you can provision java apps to most J2ME phones.
I think the problem for many people is the HUGE stink the FBDB folks made of the whole thing. I didn't hear Pontiac complaining when the Firebird DB people stole the name from them (or the indigenous peoples of the Americas where Pontiac stole it). I mean really, the odds that someone would confuse 'Firebird the browser' with 'Firebird the database' are about as big as confusing 'Firebird the car' (or deity) with 'Firebird the database'.
This is most definitely a 'chiefly British' word. As a native speaker of American English, I was only exposed to this term by British comic book writers (in fact I have never heard this word spoken aloud in my country). Here the equivolent term is 'whiner', as in "Quit whining about losing your job you nasty little whiner!". Pretty crazy, huh?
Is there an issue with using the fonts which come with TeX? This is a standard tool for creating papers in math and physics departments everywhere (many also use LaTeX).
I never had to pay Donald Knuth to use TeX, and I certainly never licensed the included fonts. Is there a legal issue with using the fonts included with TeX, or is this all an attempt to make some free fonts which are friendly to non-markup text processing tools like MS Word?
If the latter is the case, what is the point of releasing these fonts in a TeX usable form at all?
This is unadulterated hogshit, IE standards compliance is as weak or weaker than Netscape/Mozilla's. Any dumbass with a web browser can Google up thousands of 'IE5 Does Not Conform To Web Standards' articles.
Microsoft claims conformance to CSS level 1 and DOM level 1 in IE6, so maybe they have done an about face on this issue (much like suddenly deciding security is more important than idiot-friendliness). Unfortunately, 95% of the current Windows user base is using IE5 because it comes with the OS (through Win2K at least).
As a developer who has to provide web interfaces from time to time, I can promise you that it is a lot of work to make a site compatible with both IE and Netscape. Each one drops the ball when it comes to W3C conformance. I guess it's encouraging that MS is attempting to implement standards compliance into one of their products.
That's amazing. I did just this same thing the other day with Debian.
You did what?
If you are claiming that you rebuilt the entire system from source on debian, let me in on your secret. As far as I know, debian has NONE of the build-it-from-source capabilities described in the article (except maybe kpkg for kernels).
Even better, fill their mail servers with so much false information that they cannot improve the playability of the copy protected discs. Something along the lines of:
Dear umg@umusic.com,
I recently purchased Universal Music Group's release of XXXX on CD, and it has audible pops and clicks when played on my XXXX CD player.
Do not help UMG make this form of copy protection more transparent (and less offensive) to music consumers.
Re:Now that's a nice IDEA...
on
Java IDEs?
·
· Score: 1
It does support jsp, even code completion with jsp's. Of course it handles servlets, they are just another java class. What is missing?
I have been hooked on IntelliJ IDEA for several months now. The interface is extremely powerful, yet uncluttered. Something like a text editor with lots of intelligent pop-ups.
It has everything the other IDEs offer with many tricks of its own. There are too many convenience features to go into here, but one substantial advantage is a nice set of refactoring tools. These tools facilitate slicing and dicing code to reorganize its structure, and similar tools have beem very popular with the smalltalk crowd.
Our whole team has been very impressed with this IDE, and I would recommend it to anyone. Give the free trial a spin. I seem to find some new feature to 'Ooh' and 'Aah' over every day.
http://www.intellij.com
Isn't woody testing now?
on
Debian On DVD
·
· Score: 1
I think that Woody is considered the 'testing' distribution now, not 'unstable'. As a big Woody user, I have found it to be plenty stable.
On cheap CD-R media, this will rip off a layer of paint and the metal substrate beneath.
This happened with a commercially manufactured CD I had in a plastic CD sleeve in my car. When I took it out of the sleeve, most of the aliminum substrate ripped off. That disk is now the most expensive coaster in my home.
I installed Progeny beta, and everything worked great. The install went very well, and I was extremely happy.
However, when I used apt-get to uprade to RC1 it tried to upgrade the running kernel. Being new to Debian I followed the warning and cancelled the kernel update, but was surprised to find that doing this cancelled the remainder of the upgrade as well.
Being a bonehead I restarted the upgrade and agreed to the kernel update. Everything appeared to update ok, but upon my next reboot I found that none of the kernel modules I had been using with the initial install were available to the new kernel. At this point I powered off and decided to wait for the production release.
My question to the Debian folks is: What did I do wrong, and can I fix the system or should I just install again?
It frustrates most at first... you just have to know where to find answers.
A good first source is the Linux Documentation Project: www.linuxdoc.org
This site has lots of good info... check out the HOWTO's in particular.
For more esoteric questions, I like to search Usenet postings. A good Usenet search can be found at Deja.com (for now, at least): www.deja.com/usenet
While these still require reading more than 2 sentences, if you want to get Linux running, and have some time to spend, these will answer 90% of your questions. Posting to Usenet will often clear up the rest.
Everyone Linux user was once a newbie. When I was starting out, these sites were invaluable for me. I hope they can help you too.
Slashdot Mirror
Obviously YANAL, if you were you would be forced to admit that the illegal NSA wiretaps constitute a violation of federal law in the form of FISA. This is not a point of debate among the right or the left. The administration would like you to believe (and it sounds like you've been suckered) that the president has the constitutional authority to break any law during wartime. (This 'president is above the law' thinking is reflected not only by the wiretap issue, but also in the administration's written statements that they intend to ignore the McCain anti-torture law recently passed.)
The question you should be asking yourself is "Should (Hillary Clinton/Ted Kennedy/Democratic boogeyman of the day) have unrestricted powers to break any American law they choose? How about if they decided the 2nd ammendment should be ignored and took away your guns? What if they decided that all Republicans should be wiretapped (this smells a little reverse Nixon-ish)?"
Bring the hearings on. I have yet to hear a single non-partisan expert defend the 'legality' of these wiretaps. The only people defending the program are Gonzales, Bush, Cheney, etc. within the administration and partisans hacks tweeting out the GOP approved talking points.
At least this whole ID controversy shifts attention away from the only other meme attached to Kansas, "The Wizard of Oz".
I'm so tired of "where's Toto?" and "we're not in Kansas anymore" and "I'll get your little dog, too" that I welcome our new theocratic state school board overlords.
I have worked extensively with CVS in the past, but my current project has adopted Subversion. Subversion corrects several deficiencies in CVS while retaining a very similar command syntax.
Improvements include:
- Atomic commits
- Historically trackable file/directory renames, moves, and deletes
- Simplified branching and tagging
- Less network traffic between client and server
- Better binary handling
The big missing component at this time is robust merge tracking. You have to do a little manual work during complex merges from long-lived branches, but that should be addressed in 1.2 or 1.3.
(Posted as non-AC cos' I just left the business)
Google for "Over the air" provisioning (or OTA). Most existing J2ME phones support this approach to application provisioning, at least the subset of J2ME phones that I have experience with.
Basically if you can run an HTTP server, you can provision java apps to most J2ME phones.
"Doubt everything, doubt even that you can doubt everything."
-R.A.Wilson
I think the problem for many people is the HUGE stink the FBDB folks made of the whole thing. I didn't hear Pontiac complaining when the Firebird DB people stole the name from them (or the indigenous peoples of the Americas where Pontiac stole it).
I mean really, the odds that someone would confuse 'Firebird the browser' with 'Firebird the database' are about as big as confusing 'Firebird the car' (or deity) with 'Firebird the database'.
This is most definitely a 'chiefly British' word. As a native speaker of American English, I was only exposed to this term by British comic book writers (in fact I have never heard this word spoken aloud in my country). Here the equivolent term is 'whiner', as in "Quit whining about losing your job you nasty little whiner!". Pretty crazy, huh?
Is there an issue with using the fonts which come with TeX? This is a standard tool for creating papers in math and physics departments everywhere (many also use LaTeX).
I never had to pay Donald Knuth to use TeX, and I certainly never licensed the included fonts. Is there a legal issue with using the fonts included with TeX, or is this all an attempt to make some free fonts which are friendly to non-markup text processing tools like MS Word?
If the latter is the case, what is the point of releasing these fonts in a TeX usable form at all?
Check these:
Group blasts Internet Explorer 5.5 for lack of Web standards
Review of Netscape6... see paragraph 2 damning IE W3C compliance
IE 5.5 criticized for lack of Web standards
Microsoft claims conformance to CSS level 1 and DOM level 1 in IE6, so maybe they have done an about face on this issue (much like suddenly deciding security is more important than idiot-friendliness). Unfortunately, 95% of the current Windows user base is using IE5 because it comes with the OS (through Win2K at least).
As a developer who has to provide web interfaces from time to time, I can promise you that it is a lot of work to make a site compatible with both IE and Netscape. Each one drops the ball when it comes to W3C conformance. I guess it's encouraging that MS is attempting to implement standards compliance into one of their products.
You did what?
If you are claiming that you rebuilt the entire system from source on debian, let me in on your secret. As far as I know, debian has NONE of the build-it-from-source capabilities described in the article (except maybe kpkg for kernels).
Even better, fill their mail servers with so much false information that they cannot improve the playability of the copy protected discs. Something along the lines of:
Dear umg@umusic.com,
I recently purchased Universal Music Group's release of XXXX on CD, and it has audible pops and clicks when played on my XXXX CD player.
Do not help UMG make this form of copy protection more transparent (and less offensive) to music consumers.
It does support jsp, even code completion with jsp's. Of course it handles servlets, they are just another java class. What is missing?
I have been hooked on IntelliJ IDEA for several months now. The interface is extremely powerful, yet uncluttered. Something like a text editor with lots of intelligent pop-ups.
It has everything the other IDEs offer with many tricks of its own. There are too many convenience features to go into here, but one substantial advantage is a nice set of refactoring tools. These tools facilitate slicing and dicing code to reorganize its structure, and similar tools have beem very popular with the smalltalk crowd.
Our whole team has been very impressed with this IDE, and I would recommend it to anyone. Give the free trial a spin. I seem to find some new feature to 'Ooh' and 'Aah' over every day.
http://www.intellij.com
I think that Woody is considered the 'testing' distribution now, not 'unstable'. As a big Woody user, I have found it to be plenty stable.
Huh, huh... big woody user... huh, huh-huh...
Methinks you missed the smartass nature of my reply. Go to dictionary.com and look up facetious, parody, and sarcastic. Learn something today.
Your german sucks too.
He didn't, he correctly refered to them as 'LEGO bricks'.
You still fail.
The Shut-the-fuck-up corrections squad.
Hey cockgrabber.
Its 'LEGO Bricks' not 'LEGO'
A LEGO brick
2 LEGO bricks
Some LEGO bricks
Big fucking pile of LEGO bricks
OK?
Thankyou.
The Shut-the-fuck-up corrections squad.
BTW: '2 pieces of LEGO' is a poor example. Nobody says '2 pieces of pies', they say '2 pieces of pie'.
Hey illiterate fuckhead.
Its 'LEGO Bricks' not 'LEGO'
A LEGO brick
2 LEGO bricks
Some LEGO bricks
Many, many LEGO bricks up your ass
OK?
Thankyou.
The Shut-the-fuck-up corrections squad.
BTW: '2 pieces of LEGO' is a poor example. Nobody says '2 pieces of pies', they say '2 pieces of pie'.
On cheap CD-R media, this will rip off a layer of paint and the metal substrate beneath.
This happened with a commercially manufactured CD I had in a plastic CD sleeve in my car. When I took it out of the sleeve, most of the aliminum substrate ripped off. That disk is now the most expensive coaster in my home.
That's fat, stupid redneck slobs, you hoser!
Star Office has released version 6.0 beta.
See the banner on Sun's homepage
OpenOffice is currently offering release 638
See www.openoffice.org for details.
Are they related? Yes. Are they the same? Certainly not!
Please try to clarify this point in the posted article!
However, when I used apt-get to uprade to RC1 it tried to upgrade the running kernel. Being new to Debian I followed the warning and cancelled the kernel update, but was surprised to find that doing this cancelled the remainder of the upgrade as well.
Being a bonehead I restarted the upgrade and agreed to the kernel update. Everything appeared to update ok, but upon my next reboot I found that none of the kernel modules I had been using with the initial install were available to the new kernel. At this point I powered off and decided to wait for the production release.
My question to the Debian folks is: What did I do wrong, and can I fix the system or should I just install again?
I doubt that George W. Jr. knows this.
George W. Jr! I didn't know you read Slashdot! (Actually I didn't know you could read...)
It frustrates most at first... you just have to know where to find answers.
A good first source is the Linux Documentation Project:
www.linuxdoc.org
This site has lots of good info... check out the HOWTO's in particular.
For more esoteric questions, I like to search Usenet postings. A good Usenet search can be found at Deja.com (for now, at least):
www.deja.com/usenet
While these still require reading more than 2 sentences, if you want to get Linux running, and have some time to spend, these will answer 90% of your questions. Posting to Usenet will often clear up the rest.
Everyone Linux user was once a newbie. When I was starting out, these sites were invaluable for me. I hope they can help you too.