In Italy we have been always taught it was Meucci who invented the telephone. Bell is barely mentioned as someone the americans think invented the telephone. Personally, I always thought it was some old-time residue nationalism inherited from the fascist era.
Being born in Italy (Genoa, 1451) his real name was Cristoforo Colombo, even though I guess he is mostly referred to with hi Spanish name Cristobal Colon
There has been a flame war over at bugzilla regarding why ctrl-tab should/should not be used as the tab cycling shortcut, but unfortunately it lost over ctrl+pgup/dn which makes it almost unusable. We'll have to live with it I don't see any way for this to change.
I don't think this made it in mozilla RC2 and will make it in 1.0 (see bug 11036 at bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11036 - sorry couldn't link because links are disabled from/.), but it seems to be in NS7:
Unearthed from previous versions of Netscape is a nifty filter feature that can help you pare back spam. To stop unsolicited e-mail from a particular sender, you need only click on the offender's e-mail address. A filter dialog box guides you through the process of automatically trashing all future messages from that sender.
How exactly is Data Mining of "dubious ethical value"?
As for every job there may be ethical or unethical tasks to perform or method to pursue the job's goals. But Data Mining seems a potentially valuable activity. I do research in social sciences and finding the right data for our projects is always a challenging and time consuming task.
I don't know if there is room for such specialized activity, but if such a profession emerges I don't see why it should be unethical on principle.
slashdot.org shouldn't be a.org. It's quite clear now that it is a commercial enterprise and while they should keep the.org they'd better default their pages to the.com.
Not that these root mean anything but it would be clearer if they did. That's the reason why the wikipedia (for example) chose.com suffix even if it is currently a purely noncommercial enterprise.
Can somebody explain? I am running a small site for a group of about 20 childhood friends with.org name. Does this mean I will have to pay 35K? A steep price hike.
Besides, what root are we supposed get? We're not a commercial organization, we're a group of friends!!!
Speaking about online marketing, one thing that strikes me is how the market for concert tickets is still dominated by Ticketmasters and their huge 20%-ish charges (it is not uncommon to be charged $6 for a $30 ticket).
It seems to me that the cost of setting up an online ticket sales service are negligible compared to that markup. Why aren't venues, even small venues, selling tickets on their own? There are even open source systems available now (I'm thinking about postnuke modules but I'm sure there's something else. I find it amazing that nobody (actually, very few) is trying to cash in to the opportunities, and that the internet revolution has not affected a bit TicketMasters' monopoly.
Believe it or not, the following announcement [in italian] from a branch of the italian government asking for system administration / OS software explicitly says they are not interested in open source products.
The reviewer complains about glitches in the sms (short messages) support. I would like to know anyone using effectively sms for their work.
I think sms will never catch up in the us and in fact even in europe it is used only by kids fell for it. Let's face it spending 2 minutes to type an "I love you" or "see you at 3pm" with the numerical keypad is not the most efficient use of your time. Just dial the number and leave the message on the voicemail for god's sake.
One thing the review should have mentioned is that it is not tri-band, but dual band (different versions sold in us (800/1900mhx) and in europe (800/1800mhz)), which means you can't take it to europe and make it work with one of their prepaid plans.
Last but not least: handling everything via the web is not always the perfect choice for everyone, but when you have offices in North America, Europe, and Asia, it sure helps when you can manage via browser. Beats the hell out of Windows Terminal Server.
The problem is that you don't have a choice but handling everything via web. I really don't see why one wold spend time developing something like zope, let aside why some user would want to spend time learning the template system the interface, etc.. everything is so cumbersome. I appreciate the effort but there are better and more flexible alternatives which are even easier to install/manage.
For example I tried postnuke. Installation: five minutes. You can basically handle all administration by web (except plugin installation, which requires ftp and sometimes phpmyadmin). But with some shell access you really can quickly patch things up quickly. With zope/squishdot I tried once to see where my content files where placed (to back them up) and I spend half an hour and eventually gave up. I understand web access but why hide everything from the user? And where are the server log files?
I should also mention that in postnuke ther is actually serious support for internationalization. Writing language translations is a s easy as editing a file and saving it.
Keep in mind that postnuke is still in development phase and slash it is basically a stable code. I think this is one advantage of slash. The other advantage is that slash is meant for heavy traffic sites. On the other hand, PN can be installed on a provider's server... no need to have full control of a machine. I should say that easiness of installation of a plus but you don't want us to talk about easiness so let's forget it.
The main difference I think the PN code administrators seems to me have embraced the open source philosophy at a much large scale than the slash developers. As a result, PN has a larger developement base, a plethora of extensions and sideblocks (the negative side is that it's easy to get lost when you try to find the right one), customizable themes that are available for download. I have seen modules that slash still doesn't have (weather, shopping cart, banner exchange, etc...)
If you talk about similarities, graphically slash sites are much more similar than pn sites. For one thing, graphical themes can be easily installed by downloading a patch and unzipping. YOu can even get rid of the usual structure leftblocks/news/rightblocks by installing a centerblock module.
> there probably *will* be a book called Slash for Dummies!:) Smiley, but I'm serious.
Actually I don't think there will be. Let's face it, slash requires (basically) full control of a box. There are other weblogs (e.g. postnuke) out there that you can install in 2 minutes on a providers' server. I can see a postnuke dummies book published, slash is more for people running big news sites.
Slashdot Mirror
In Italy we have been always taught it was Meucci who invented the telephone. Bell is barely mentioned as someone the americans think invented the telephone. Personally, I always thought it was some old-time residue nationalism inherited from the fascist era.
Such practices are common practice in academia.
In fact, in my field (economics), having an outside offer is the only way a tenured professor can get a raise from his current employer.
I think any wiki clone will be more appropriate. Try
phpwiki
(in perl) usemod wiki.
There are dozens more clones.
Being born in Italy (Genoa, 1451) his real name was Cristoforo Colombo, even though I guess he is mostly referred to with hi Spanish name Cristobal Colon
There has been a flame war over at bugzilla regarding why ctrl-tab should/should not be used as the tab cycling shortcut, but unfortunately it lost over ctrl+pgup/dn which makes it almost unusable. We'll have to live with it I don't see any way for this to change.
How exactly is Data Mining of "dubious ethical value"?
As for every job there may be ethical or unethical tasks to perform or method to pursue the job's goals. But Data Mining seems a potentially valuable activity. I do research in social sciences and finding the right data for our projects is always a challenging and time consuming task.
I don't know if there is room for such specialized activity, but if such a profession emerges I don't see why it should be unethical on principle.
According to this list, airport code ISS corresponds to Wiscasset, ME. I wasn't able to get a quote from expedia or travelocity though.
slashdot.org shouldn't be a .org. It's quite clear now that it is a commercial enterprise and while they should keep the .org they'd better default their pages to the .com.
.com suffix even if it is currently a purely noncommercial enterprise.
Not that these root mean anything but it would be clearer if they did. That's the reason why the wikipedia (for example) chose
Can somebody explain? I am running a small site for a group of about 20 childhood friends with .org name. Does this mean I will have to pay 35K? A steep price hike.
Besides, what root are we supposed get? We're not a commercial organization, we're a group of friends!!!
Speaking about online marketing, one thing that strikes me is how the market for concert tickets is still dominated by Ticketmasters and their huge 20%-ish charges (it is not uncommon to be charged $6 for a $30 ticket).
It seems to me that the cost of setting up an online ticket sales service are negligible compared to that markup. Why aren't venues, even small venues, selling tickets on their own? There are even open source systems available now (I'm thinking about postnuke modules but I'm sure there's something else. I find it amazing that nobody (actually, very few) is trying to cash in to the opportunities, and that the internet revolution has not affected a bit TicketMasters' monopoly.
Believe it or not, the following announcement [in italian] from a branch of the italian government asking for system administration / OS software explicitly says they are not interested in open source products.
No comment.
If textarc.org continues to publish their stuff with dark grey text on a black bacground they're not reacing for the masses.
I have to higlight the text in order to be able to read it.
Maybe you are thinking of foxserv, also here is the homepage
I tried it and smoothlessly installed apache php mysql on my machine. There's even a distro with Perl in it.
I don't see it can you post the url of your query?
you're right it's 900/1800 (eu) and 900/1900 (us). I'm not sure why they didn't make it triband.
The reviewer complains about glitches in the sms (short messages) support. I would like to know anyone using effectively sms for their work.
I think sms will never catch up in the us and in fact even in europe it is used only by kids fell for it. Let's face it spending 2 minutes to type an "I love you" or "see you at 3pm" with the numerical keypad is not the most efficient use of your time. Just dial the number and leave the message on the voicemail for god's sake.
One thing the review should have mentioned is that it is not tri-band, but dual band (different versions sold in us (800/1900mhx) and in europe (800/1800mhz)), which means you can't take it to europe and make it work with one of their prepaid plans.
Why do you care so much?
besides, jp2 is faster to type than jpeg2.
fair enough
The problem is that you don't have a choice but handling everything via web. I really don't see why one wold spend time developing something like zope, let aside why some user would want to spend time learning the template system the interface, etc.. everything is so cumbersome. I appreciate the effort but there are better and more flexible alternatives which are even easier to install/manage.
For example I tried postnuke. Installation: five minutes. You can basically handle all administration by web (except plugin installation, which requires ftp and sometimes phpmyadmin). But with some shell access you really can quickly patch things up quickly. With zope/squishdot I tried once to see where my content files where placed (to back them up) and I spend half an hour and eventually gave up. I understand web access but why hide everything from the user? And where are the server log files?
Let's be serious. Squishdot in its current implementation sucks big time. The idea of handling everything via web is not always the best solution
I should also mention that in postnuke ther is actually serious support for internationalization.
Writing language translations is a s easy as editing a file and saving it.
Keep in mind that postnuke is still in development phase and slash it is basically a stable code. I think this is one advantage of slash. The other advantage is that slash is meant for heavy traffic sites. On the other hand, PN can be installed on a provider's server... no need to have full control of a machine. I should say that easiness of installation of a plus but you don't want us to talk about easiness so let's forget it.
The main difference I think the PN code administrators seems to me have embraced the open source philosophy at a much large scale than the slash developers. As a result, PN has a larger developement base, a plethora of extensions and sideblocks (the negative side is that it's easy to get lost when you try to find the right one), customizable themes that are available for download. I have seen modules that slash still doesn't have (weather, shopping cart, banner exchange, etc...)
If you talk about similarities, graphically slash sites are much more similar than pn sites. For one thing, graphical themes can be easily installed by downloading a patch and unzipping. YOu can even get rid of the usual structure leftblocks/news/rightblocks by installing a centerblock module.
> there probably *will* be a book called Slash for Dummies! :) Smiley, but I'm serious.
Actually I don't think there will be. Let's face it, slash requires (basically) full control of a box. There are other weblogs (e.g. postnuke) out there that you can install in 2 minutes on a providers' server. I can see a postnuke dummies book published, slash is more for people running big news sites.