RTL. You're going to have to create it in
~/.mozilla/$user/some_pseudorandom_string.slt (ignoring any spaces). I can't tell you the exact string because it will vary, but that should let you find it fairly easily.
WRT the your SPARC question, I'd say to try emailling/phoning US-based distributors to see if any of them are willing to ship internationally. I'd imagine that at least a few would be, and you'd probably even save some money, even when you do factor in the increased shipping time and hassle in dealing with customs.
Have you used the systems you're talking about, or are you just talking out of your ass again? The whole point of enigmail, which I have installed on this system, is to make it as seamless and automatic as possible to encrypt/decrypt messages. Currently, I have it set up to automatically sign my messages by default, though switching to automatic encryption is simply a matter of changing a menu option. The binary will have everything you need already installed, all you'll have to do is have it make a key.
Just because Microsoft has made it difficult and/or impossible to have secure mail, doesn't mean other vendors have such difficulties.
Yeah, computers would only be owned by geeks as opposed to ordinary everyday people. MS did some shitty stuff, but they also made PC's the popular item they are today.
Doubtful. You're forgetting that there were several other companies that were creating some damn innovative and easy to use GUIs at the same time MS was struggling with Windows 2 and DOS 3. Pretty much all Gates was was lucky - there were several other people just as hungry, and just as willing to create an easy to use system. Were Gates to not have come around, we'd all be using Ataris, or Amigas, or Macs, or maybe something totally different instead. Microsoft wasn't the savior, or creator, of Personal Computing, they just had the advantage of being branded with IBM, which bought a lot of the professional market. Had IBM dropped the PC, or decided to go with Digital Research instead, things would have been a lot different.
Because there are still some pretty useful features in WP that aren't in Star/OpenOffice, like a good grammar checker (which has saved many writings of mine =3), plus the fact that WordPerfect is still pretty much the standard in some circles, like the legal/medical profession.
It's also worth noting that some vendors, such as Sony, went to WordPerfect as their word processor a few years back. Of course, their PC marketshare isn't as big as HP or Dell's, but it's still fairly significant. Could this be the start of a trend towards WordPerfect regaining at least some of its dominance?
while I agree that these would be extremely lousy if they were used as the sole camera in a wedding/party, they'd be great for adding a little extra frill, a little extra splash to supplement more tradtional video equipment. Things like the bridal procession in a wedding, for example, could be filmed from sightly behind, or in front of, the bride. You could have a fairly candid panoramic shot of the whole crowd, instead of having to have the photographer mind eir way through the celebrators. Also, as it's going to be a supplement, fuel life is not going to be an issue; I'm sure that if this does get adapted for photographic use, they'll have snap on fuel tanks available for it. It'll be a tool, and in an industry where people have tens of thousands of dollars of equipment, a relatively inexpensive one, too.
The problem is that I keep looking to the bottom of the screen for window managment out of habit, and end up closing windows with 4 or 5 tabs by accident.
Have you looked into Multizilla? It's a much nicer tab implementation than the tabbed interface of the stock mozilla. Plus it's got a few other nice features, such as browser spoofing for the websites designed by lazy idiots who make everything IE only. Like any mozilla add-on, it's quite tiny, and worth a spin.
This kind of stuff is not unheard of in the computer industry. When Intel came out with the 486SX, many of those chips were merely 486DXes with the coprocessor disabled, due to the fact that demand for these less expensive chips was so high. Then of course there are also the early USR sportsters which were very little more than rebadged couriers with the HST functions disabled.
As you said, the difference between the products is often what they spec at, and ocassionally, a product that is speced higher will be sold as the lower speed because demand for the less expensive product is higher. Rather than having shortages of a popular product, and gluts of a less popular product, they decide to meet the demand, and ensure another iteration of the upgrade cycle at the same time.
Having Linux boot straight to X is like... having Windows boot straight to Windows either through config or Autoexec.bat.
Wrong. Most modern Linux distros, such as SuSE or Mandrake, have a boot logo that hides all the "intimidating" scrolling text that discourages newbies, yet at the same time, more advanced users can access the command-line tools to fix things when they get broken.
So why won;t USians want to use cell phones? I have no idea.
Well, I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I've found that Cell phones simply aren't worth the money. First off, they're much more expensive than a landline phone - it costs forty to fifty dollars to get a phone line in the US. Once you get a line installed, local calls are usually free, and good long distance plans are about 5 cents a minute. On top of that, the basic phone bill is about $15 per month, compared to about $30 per month for a cell phone.
Though most of the merits of cell phones are available over here as well. As you mentioned, we can get GSM phones, which is the way I would be going, were I to get a phone. Additionally, I could roam just fine, if I stick to a fairly large provider - as you mentioned, most networks use standardized technologies, and I could make the 3,000 mile (5,000 kilometer) journey to New York and have pretty good coverage if I so desired.
Now, if I did more travelling, then a cell phone would probably be much more useful. As it stands now, it would just be an expensive little toy with very little usefulness. Though if I were to get a phone, I would go with one of the prepaid providers, as I doubt I'd use the phone for any more than 10-15 minutes a month.- landlines are still far more useful, in my opinion.
These people do value their time, they just don't need little green pieces of paper to make themselves happy. There's much more to life than money; I know many of my happiest times, and hopefully yours too, are doing things which cost nothing. If anything, these people value their time more than closed source developers, since they don't need some arbitrary measure of how happy they should be while programming.
Just because you need an outside factor to motivate you doesn't mean that others do.
God, it's not that big of a deal. You read the front page, you see it's a kernel update, you move on to the next story. Is that so hard?
I, and others, like to read about the progress of the kernel, even if we don't download and compile every version. You're making a mountain out of a molehill here; my advice is to chill out, grab some alcohol from the fridge, and move on. It's obvious you need to relax.
Besides that slight innacuracy,can anybody explain how Mulder is suddenly able to communcate with dead people now?
He wasn't really communicating with them, IMO. It was more like they were a physical manifestation of his doubts etc, telling him that the path he was on was no good. So basically, the Lone Gunmen were all in his head.
...Call me naive, but why isnt that states attorney general investigating this company? This is nothing short of corporate sponsored hax0ring.
from the article:
Susan Henrichsen, deputy attorney general for the state of California, declined to comment on specifics of the IntelliTech situation. But she noted that downloading software onto someone's computer without permission is tantamount to hacking.
Sounds like the AG is looking into them. They probably are just getting their ducks into a row for a criminal case. With tech crimes like this, they don't want to make any mistakes and let someone go free who would have otherwise gone to jail.
Lexmark has a license very similar to what you describe. It's called the Prebate program. Essentially, when you buy the cartridge, you agree to either send the cartridge back to Lexmark, or throw it away. There have been all kinds of angry letters from lexmark sent to people who remanufacture these cartridges.
More importantly, you can change the browser and have no loss of functionality. KDE has well-defined hooks so that one can use whatever browser they choose - you can download kmozilla and have konqueror and the rest of KDE use the Gecko engine to render HTML instead of using KHTML
All this means is if FlashMX is ported to Linux, us Linux users would be able to view just the Sorenson codec used for FlashMX. Sorenson has several codecs, more than likely incompatible with each other. Apple just seems to be upset that Sorenson is offering any competitor a liscense for one of its products. I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not privvy to the contracts, so I can't comment on the truth of Apple's claims, other than to say that if it's true, than Sorenson's lawyers were idiots when they signed on the dotted line - giving one company exclusive terms, especially if it's a computer company selling to consumers - is ridiculous. If Apple doesn't have an exclusive contract for all of Sorenson's codecs, which is what I'd think the case would be, then Apple's lawsuit will probably be laughed right out of court.
They tried something like this a few decades ago. Wire the poor feline, get it to hang around the person you want to spy on, and control its various bodily functions through wires and the sort. Fortunately, this was project was stopped, though it makes you wonder about the lows governments are willing to stoop to.
my next thought is how close their upgrade utility is to apt-get or rpm-
SuSE is rpm-based, and does have a few quirks as to package names which may come into play every now and then. All in all, though, it's a pretty nice distro.
Problem is, the phone companies own the cell companies. SBC, for example, owns about 80% of Cingular. Therefore, switching to cellular means that you still pay your bills to the phone company
What, exactly, is the difference between the integration of Windows and IE vs the integration of KE and Konqueror?
KDE gives you choice in the underlying rendering structure. If you don't like the integrated HTML engine, you can replace it with Mozilla's in less than 20 seconds. In Windows, you can't pull out the ie engine and replace it with another no matter hard you try.
Perhaps one of the biggest dislikes I have with OSX is how it hanldles windows; on my box, I use WindowMaker, it's small, fast, and doesn't use a lot of memory. I like simplicity in my window manager - just give me a close button and a minimize button, and throw all the rest of the items in a context menu. I also like the way it handles task switching. You don't have to worry about a dock being hidden behind an application window, you just have to find a small amount of open desktop space, and right click to pull up the task list. Additionally, the dock is there if I want to use it, I'm just not forced into the matter. I enjoy the customizability of Linux - if I want a feature, it's probably there, if I don't, I can turn it off just as easily, I don't need Gates or Jobs telling me how I should work.
It's pretty useful in the US as well. The East Coast may have mountains similar to Europe, but western US mountains, and mountain passes, are fairly high. Los Angeles, for example, even though the city is at sea level, has 10,000 foot mountains 20-30 miles away, and some of the passes through those mountains have 7-8000 foot elevations. Colorado, which in parts is fairly well-populated, has several 10-11,000 foot passes which people regularly travel across. As a result of this, auto manufacturers have to tune their cars to handle a wide range of atmospheric pressure.
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RTL. You're going to have to create it in ~/.mozilla/$user/some_pseudorandom_string.slt (ignoring any spaces). I can't tell you the exact string because it will vary, but that should let you find it fairly easily.
As far as your request for an ATX based StrongARM board, there seem to be plenty of options out there, all you have to do is choose a vendor your comfortable with, it looks like.
Just because Microsoft has made it difficult and/or impossible to have secure mail, doesn't mean other vendors have such difficulties.
Doubtful. You're forgetting that there were several other companies that were creating some damn innovative and easy to use GUIs at the same time MS was struggling with Windows 2 and DOS 3. Pretty much all Gates was was lucky - there were several other people just as hungry, and just as willing to create an easy to use system. Were Gates to not have come around, we'd all be using Ataris, or Amigas, or Macs, or maybe something totally different instead. Microsoft wasn't the savior, or creator, of Personal Computing, they just had the advantage of being branded with IBM, which bought a lot of the professional market. Had IBM dropped the PC, or decided to go with Digital Research instead, things would have been a lot different.
It's also worth noting that some vendors, such as Sony, went to WordPerfect as their word processor a few years back. Of course, their PC marketshare isn't as big as HP or Dell's, but it's still fairly significant. Could this be the start of a trend towards WordPerfect regaining at least some of its dominance?
while I agree that these would be extremely lousy if they were used as the sole camera in a wedding/party, they'd be great for adding a little extra frill, a little extra splash to supplement more tradtional video equipment. Things like the bridal procession in a wedding, for example, could be filmed from sightly behind, or in front of, the bride. You could have a fairly candid panoramic shot of the whole crowd, instead of having to have the photographer mind eir way through the celebrators. Also, as it's going to be a supplement, fuel life is not going to be an issue; I'm sure that if this does get adapted for photographic use, they'll have snap on fuel tanks available for it. It'll be a tool, and in an industry where people have tens of thousands of dollars of equipment, a relatively inexpensive one, too.
Have you looked into Multizilla? It's a much nicer tab implementation than the tabbed interface of the stock mozilla. Plus it's got a few other nice features, such as browser spoofing for the websites designed by lazy idiots who make everything IE only. Like any mozilla add-on, it's quite tiny, and worth a spin.
As you said, the difference between the products is often what they spec at, and ocassionally, a product that is speced higher will be sold as the lower speed because demand for the less expensive product is higher. Rather than having shortages of a popular product, and gluts of a less popular product, they decide to meet the demand, and ensure another iteration of the upgrade cycle at the same time.
Though most of the merits of cell phones are available over here as well. As you mentioned, we can get GSM phones, which is the way I would be going, were I to get a phone. Additionally, I could roam just fine, if I stick to a fairly large provider - as you mentioned, most networks use standardized technologies, and I could make the 3,000 mile (5,000 kilometer) journey to New York and have pretty good coverage if I so desired.
Now, if I did more travelling, then a cell phone would probably be much more useful. As it stands now, it would just be an expensive little toy with very little usefulness. Though if I were to get a phone, I would go with one of the prepaid providers, as I doubt I'd use the phone for any more than 10-15 minutes a month.- landlines are still far more useful, in my opinion.
Just because you need an outside factor to motivate you doesn't mean that others do.
I, and others, like to read about the progress of the kernel, even if we don't download and compile every version. You're making a mountain out of a molehill here; my advice is to chill out, grab some alcohol from the fridge, and move on. It's obvious you need to relax.
He wasn't really communicating with them, IMO. It was more like they were a physical manifestation of his doubts etc, telling him that the path he was on was no good. So basically, the Lone Gunmen were all in his head.
Lexmark has a license very similar to what you describe. It's called the Prebate program. Essentially, when you buy the cartridge, you agree to either send the cartridge back to Lexmark, or throw it away. There have been all kinds of angry letters from lexmark sent to people who remanufacture these cartridges.
More importantly, you can change the browser and have no loss of functionality. KDE has well-defined hooks so that one can use whatever browser they choose - you can download kmozilla and have konqueror and the rest of KDE use the Gecko engine to render HTML instead of using KHTML
All this means is if FlashMX is ported to Linux, us Linux users would be able to view just the Sorenson codec used for FlashMX. Sorenson has several codecs, more than likely incompatible with each other. Apple just seems to be upset that Sorenson is offering any competitor a liscense for one of its products. I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not privvy to the contracts, so I can't comment on the truth of Apple's claims, other than to say that if it's true, than Sorenson's lawyers were idiots when they signed on the dotted line - giving one company exclusive terms, especially if it's a computer company selling to consumers - is ridiculous. If Apple doesn't have an exclusive contract for all of Sorenson's codecs, which is what I'd think the case would be, then Apple's lawsuit will probably be laughed right out of court.
They tried something like this a few decades ago. Wire the poor feline, get it to hang around the person you want to spy on, and control its various bodily functions through wires and the sort. Fortunately, this was project was stopped, though it makes you wonder about the lows governments are willing to stoop to.
Problem is, the phone companies own the cell companies. SBC, for example, owns about 80% of Cingular. Therefore, switching to cellular means that you still pay your bills to the phone company
KDE gives you choice in the underlying rendering structure. If you don't like the integrated HTML engine, you can replace it with Mozilla's in less than 20 seconds. In Windows, you can't pull out the ie engine and replace it with another no matter hard you try.
Perhaps one of the biggest dislikes I have with OSX is how it hanldles windows; on my box, I use WindowMaker, it's small, fast, and doesn't use a lot of memory. I like simplicity in my window manager - just give me a close button and a minimize button, and throw all the rest of the items in a context menu. I also like the way it handles task switching. You don't have to worry about a dock being hidden behind an application window, you just have to find a small amount of open desktop space, and right click to pull up the task list. Additionally, the dock is there if I want to use it, I'm just not forced into the matter. I enjoy the customizability of Linux - if I want a feature, it's probably there, if I don't, I can turn it off just as easily, I don't need Gates or Jobs telling me how I should work.
It's pretty useful in the US as well. The East Coast may have mountains similar to Europe, but western US mountains, and mountain passes, are fairly high. Los Angeles, for example, even though the city is at sea level, has 10,000 foot mountains 20-30 miles away, and some of the passes through those mountains have 7-8000 foot elevations. Colorado, which in parts is fairly well-populated, has several 10-11,000 foot passes which people regularly travel across. As a result of this, auto manufacturers have to tune their cars to handle a wide range of atmospheric pressure.