I'd say you pretty much lucked-out on the USB thing. I plug my generic no-name USB-IRDA dongle into my RH9 box and it just sits there like a lemon with a cord up it's ass.
I use one of those pads with light-blue lines from my SGI Personal Iris, with my MS Intellimosue Explorer and it's fantastic, tracks really nicely across the surface.
However, my mouse has started spewing gunk from the pads on which it rests at the corners since they became loose due to use - anyone know what I can do to clean them up and restick the pads?
That's a nice idea and a funny joke you slipped in there.
Linux isn't a desktop OS. It's a server OS that geeks and nerds use on their desktop machines becaause it sucks slightly less at being a desktop OS than Windows does.
Just because someone calls their 18-wheeler "the family runabout" doesn't mean that it's going to fit into a Mother-and-Baby parking space.
AOL UK doesn't seem to filter any content. Their connection software has content filtering in it, much like any other netnanny-like software that you can get off the shelf, but because we are both consenting adults neither me or my girlfriend seem to have any need to enable it.
I was idly flicking thru my favourite pr0nsites last week on my girlfriend's connection and had no problem...
Get some world IT knowledge. The most popular way to connect in Germany is ISDN, which is a dial-up protocol. People in countries outside the US (shock, horror) generally have to pay for their phone calls, unless they are stealing them.
Any outbound traffic on a connection will instruct people's auto-dialout routers and gateways to either dial out, or hold the connection - i.e. the phone call - open.
In response to your last point, router != firewall.
To the guy asking the question, theres only one guaranteed way to focus on college that I know of, and I've tried a lot of different things. Quit right now and get a job (probably a lousy one, but not for a lack of trying). Pay all of your own bills. Work 40 a week and try to be independant. Don't take any help from your parents. Just try it. Work retail or landscaping or something entry level. Try to picture your future. It will suck. If you were having problems deciding what you wanted to go into, you'll have less. You'll get the old-man-now-what-the-hell-did-i-do-with-my-life-sy ndrome at 19. It's priceless. You'll want out of such a crappy life and you'll learn whats important- you'll think a lot less of playing quake instead of studying.
I always found that Tipp-ex does a much 'whiter' job (closer to #000000) and can be bought in bulk from your local Office World.
Less confrontational too, the checkout dollie will never know that you want it for your teeth so you can avoid talking your problems out with someone! woohoo, get back to your D&D quicker!
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Does anyone know what software Yahoo's mailservers run?
Well said, that man.
I'd say you pretty much lucked-out on the USB thing. I plug my generic no-name USB-IRDA dongle into my RH9 box and it just sits there like a lemon with a cord up it's ass.
It's the same as a f**k-up, only more palatable.
I think it's ugly having to install all that extra framework just for one program though.
yes, please :)
-1, ENOTAFLY.
I use one of those pads with light-blue lines from my SGI Personal Iris, with my MS Intellimosue Explorer and it's fantastic, tracks really nicely across the surface.
However, my mouse has started spewing gunk from the pads on which it rests at the corners since they became loose due to use - anyone know what I can do to clean them up and restick the pads?
That's a nice idea and a funny joke you slipped in there.
Linux isn't a desktop OS. It's a server OS that geeks and nerds use on their desktop machines becaause it sucks slightly less at being a desktop OS than Windows does.
Just because someone calls their 18-wheeler "the family runabout" doesn't mean that it's going to fit into a Mother-and-Baby parking space.
...Notlikethis :D
Ah, but it'll never be as bad as hatfield.
My girlfriend digs my VAXcluster.
DUDE! WE SLASHDOTTED GOATSE!
Wow, karma-whoring on the karma whores! Nice! ;)
AOL UK doesn't seem to filter any content. Their connection software has content filtering in it, much like any other netnanny-like software that you can get off the shelf, but because we are both consenting adults neither me or my girlfriend seem to have any need to enable it.
I was idly flicking thru my favourite pr0nsites last week on my girlfriend's connection and had no problem...
Do they count slashdottings as 'cruft'? Either way, this isn't going to increase their opinion of the internet now, is it?
Google cached copy of article.
Get some world IT knowledge. The most popular way to connect in Germany is ISDN, which is a dial-up protocol. People in countries outside the US (shock, horror) generally have to pay for their phone calls, unless they are stealing them.
Any outbound traffic on a connection will instruct people's auto-dialout routers and gateways to either dial out, or hold the connection - i.e. the phone call - open.
In response to your last point, router != firewall.
Like that ever mattered to most slashdotters anyway...
because that's not a real protocol; it's a protocol to steal music on. Duh.
becausse WAP applications are a pain-in-the-butt to write?
ah poo. :)
that's not what I said. RTA.
/foo/..uid
The file is actually
I always found that Tipp-ex does a much 'whiter' job (closer to #000000) and can be bought in bulk from your local Office World.
Less confrontational too, the checkout dollie will never know that you want it for your teeth so you can avoid talking your problems out with someone! woohoo, get back to your D&D quicker!
if that crock, that bag-on-the-side, that mess is what we have to look forward to, I think i'll switch to BSD.
/directory/..owner is a big ugly crock.
I mean, acessing owner data by travelling into a directory then backwards out of it again like: vi