I already have a flash killer. It's called Flashblock. Of course it only works in Firefox. If the truth must be told, advertising killed flash for me. Flashblock simple buries it. Though it's more like burying something alive. It's still there. You just don't have to look at it anymore.
It's interesting that the icon for a story about slashdotters doing what they love is of a hand gripping something hard and cylindrical with a bulbous end on it.
I hadn't realized how little support there was for wifi under linux until I got an old Inspiron 3800 laptop. Installed Fedora Core 4 on it. I spent many hours looking for driver supported cards. I finally hit upon MadWifi that others have mentioned here. It doesn't support passphrases but you can use wpa_supplicant for that (though I haven't got it working). I went to the MadWifi site looked at the list of cards. Wrote down a few and went to the local BestBuy. I ended up with a NetGear WG511T and after downloading the correct RPM's that would support it under Fedora Core 4. I got it working after a couple of hours of fiddling around I got connected. The next thing I wanted to get working was the Cisco VPNClient. I did manage to get it to compile, but when I fire it up it locks the computer up so hard I have to turn it off. I tried VPNC and it doesn't work either.
Sorry too lazy tonite to provide the relevant links and exact versions of what right now. My advice is to look for what linux wifi drivers are available then what cards they support, find out if the card will work with the computer you want to put it in, then buy the card and then fiddle with the software whether you have to compile them or use RPM's for your distro.
In other words, "Forget the orphans, save the beer!"
And the scotch single malt whisky. Mustn't forget the scotch! Without the revenues from it's export, they wouldn't be able to feed the orphans their beer.
I think Microsoft's solution to spam is the similar to the Bush administrations solution to torture. They redefined it. It's not spam. It's not torture. Problem solved.
My 2 kopeks. If you use web standards you won't have to worry about supporting older browsers. If a site is designed correctly the CSS will degrade gracefully. See Zeldman's and Meyer's work. As for supporting older software, as long as someone is paying you enough to support it then it's worth it.
Backhoes don't care. Why? I'll relate a similar wire cut story. I was called out to our local airport to fix a problem with one of the airlines ground to air radios. This lets ground crews communicate with the flight crew. It is separate from air traffic control. In one room was the radio. In another room several doors down was a monitor speaker that could hear the conversation. I determined there was nothing wrong with the monitor speaker and nothing wrong with the audio and most likely a broken wire. The room separating the radio and speaker was quite large. The wire was run through the ceiling. I had to lift up many a ceiling tile to trace the wire and find the break.
I found the break. The wire had been cut and tied off. There was barely enough wire to splice the two back together. Once repaired the monitor speaker worked again. I was told later by the airline employees, airport facility workers had redone the ceiling in that one room. To me it appeared the workers found the wire in the way of their job, didn't know or didn't care what it was hooked to and simply cut it and tied it off out of the way.
Backhoe operators probably have the same mentality. They want to get their work done. If they cut a cable, it doesn't affect them. They are just doing their job. To solve this problem I would recommend burying fiber next to gas lines. The fiber should be coated with a material that bursts into flame 30 seconds after it exposed to air or cut. Not only will the backhoe operator cut the cable he'll break the gas line as well. The 30 seconds delay is to build up enough gas for a nice explosion. Sure it'll be a mess, but that's one backhoe operator who won't cut any more fiber.
I worked in a call center supporting customers who purchased extended warranties for various consumer electronics: printers, computers, digital cameras, scanners, etc. I came to the conclusion is that the only thing people should know about computers is they are too stupid to own one. Most of the time I punished the end users by replacing their printer with a crappy refurb or making them reinstall their OS. Though, I was one of the few techs who actually told the customer they'd lose all their data.
It would be nice if retailers put up a sign that read You must be this smart to buy a computer. It would have a picture of a geek complete with pocket protector and thick glasses. Oh and he'd be holding a sliderule.
When I was done with the call most of the time I'd notate their account with PEBKAC (problem exists between keyboard and chair).
I'll tell you what essence of Geek is. My friend, a sys admin, ate dinner at The Stinking Rose (they season your garlic with food) in San Francisco one night. The next day he had some serious gas. A co-worker, another IT person, went into his office said they smelled pizza and that it smelled good. He did not dissuade from that notion.
It should be explained at this point that modern elevators are strange and complex entities. The ancient electric winch and maximum capacity eight person jobs bear as much relation to a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Happy Vertical People Transporter as a packet of peanuts does to the entire West Wing of the Sirian State Mental Hospital. This is because they operate on the unlikely principle of defocused temporal perception, a curious system which enables the elevator to be on the right floor to pick you up even before you knew you wanted it, thus eliminating all the tedious chatting, relaxing, and making friends that people were previoiusly forced to do whilst waiting for elevators.
Not unnaturally, many Lifts imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up or down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision making process, and finally took to sulking in basements.
At this point a man named Gogrilla Mincefriend rediscovered and patented a device he had seen in a history book called a staircase. It has been calculated that his most recent tax bill paid for the social security of 5,000 redundant Sirius Cybernetics workers, the hospitalization of a hundred Sirius Cybernetics executives and the psychiatric treatment of over seventeen and a half thousand neurotic Lifts.
Why are there so many kooks on Slashdot? What is it about this place that attracts the ignorant and paranoid?
It's flypaper for freaks. They were always paranoid.
I don't know but between choosing Ruby on Rails evangelistas and the army of undead Amiga enthusiasts or choosing the ignorant kooks is...well, boy,... that's a tough call.
he's now a part of ZDNet. Here's the story, with a creepy-ass picture where he looks like a cracked-out muppet.
Actually it reminds me of those pictures cops show of a recently deceased John Doe (or in France a Jean Deaux): Please identify this person. I'll bet the number of posts he submits on slashdot will drop now that he's leveraged himself into a ZDNet slot.
From the interview:
Robin Good:...Today I have here Roland Piquepaille in Paris, France, one of the leading technology bloggers who has been posting and writing about many interesting topics since 2002, if I'm not wrong. Is that correct Roland?
Roland Piquepaille: Yes, that is correct I started back in April of 2002, yeah.
Yes, I can see why they hired him. Ask a stupid incomprehensible softball question you get Roland for an answer. Below is another stupid question from the brain dead interviewer. I decided to quote part of an answer he gave for a different question. I think it makes more sense.
RG: After which point did your brain started to think again? Once you realized that it was not a dream, did you start thinking about what kind of contract you wanted or if the finance was going to be an issue or was this just completely secondary?
Roland Piquepaille: No, no, no, it did not change significantly my financial income. Right now I'm making some money with Google AdSense and a little bit with the Blogads program. But I cannot live with this.
So you see, Roland was clearly working the slashdot system to get a better job. Along the way he acquired a Roland Anti-Fan Club. And if you read further down in the "English-is-not-our-native-tongue" interview they even discuss the slashdot connection. I must set my goals higher than trying to get my posts modded funny.
Interesting the name Roland should come up. That was the first name I thought of when I saw the headline. Roland Piquepaille should just retire his name and change it to something else like say Serdar Argic. Of course Roland is no Serdar. After all
Wikipedia nuked Roland's entry.
And yes they'll be using this new warp drive to land on the surface of the Sun. It's solid you know! If it's posted on the Internet it must be true. They'll land at night when it's cooler.
Slashdot Mirror
Who in their right mind would drink the best scotch over ice? They probably use it to keep their whale meat sashimi nice and fresh.
Yeah!
I already have a flash killer. It's called Flashblock. Of course it only works in Firefox. If the truth must be told, advertising killed flash for me. Flashblock simple buries it. Though it's more like burying something alive. It's still there. You just don't have to look at it anymore.
It's interesting that the icon for a story about slashdotters doing what they love is of a hand gripping something hard and cylindrical with a bulbous end on it.
I hadn't realized how little support there was for wifi under linux until I got an old Inspiron 3800 laptop. Installed Fedora Core 4 on it. I spent many hours looking for driver supported cards. I finally hit upon MadWifi that others have mentioned here. It doesn't support passphrases but you can use wpa_supplicant for that (though I haven't got it working). I went to the MadWifi site looked at the list of cards. Wrote down a few and went to the local BestBuy. I ended up with a NetGear WG511T and after downloading the correct RPM's that would support it under Fedora Core 4. I got it working after a couple of hours of fiddling around I got connected. The next thing I wanted to get working was the Cisco VPNClient. I did manage to get it to compile, but when I fire it up it locks the computer up so hard I have to turn it off. I tried VPNC and it doesn't work either.
Sorry too lazy tonite to provide the relevant links and exact versions of what right now. My advice is to look for what linux wifi drivers are available then what cards they support, find out if the card will work with the computer you want to put it in, then buy the card and then fiddle with the software whether you have to compile them or use RPM's for your distro.
String 'em up by the balls. Then they'll be 180.
I think Microsoft's solution to spam is the similar to the Bush administrations solution to torture. They redefined it. It's not spam. It's not torture. Problem solved.
I'll bet this gets modded troll or flaimbait.
My 2 kopeks. If you use web standards you won't have to worry about supporting older browsers. If a site is designed correctly the CSS will degrade gracefully. See Zeldman's and Meyer's work. As for supporting older software, as long as someone is paying you enough to support it then it's worth it.
Backhoes don't care. Why? I'll relate a similar wire cut story. I was called out to our local airport to fix a problem with one of the airlines ground to air radios. This lets ground crews communicate with the flight crew. It is separate from air traffic control. In one room was the radio. In another room several doors down was a monitor speaker that could hear the conversation. I determined there was nothing wrong with the monitor speaker and nothing wrong with the audio and most likely a broken wire. The room separating the radio and speaker was quite large. The wire was run through the ceiling. I had to lift up many a ceiling tile to trace the wire and find the break.
I found the break. The wire had been cut and tied off. There was barely enough wire to splice the two back together. Once repaired the monitor speaker worked again. I was told later by the airline employees, airport facility workers had redone the ceiling in that one room. To me it appeared the workers found the wire in the way of their job, didn't know or didn't care what it was hooked to and simply cut it and tied it off out of the way.
Backhoe operators probably have the same mentality. They want to get their work done. If they cut a cable, it doesn't affect them. They are just doing their job. To solve this problem I would recommend burying fiber next to gas lines. The fiber should be coated with a material that bursts into flame 30 seconds after it exposed to air or cut. Not only will the backhoe operator cut the cable he'll break the gas line as well. The 30 seconds delay is to build up enough gas for a nice explosion. Sure it'll be a mess, but that's one backhoe operator who won't cut any more fiber.
I think we should be asking:
PC keyboard was infected by more bacteria than a normal toilet seat.
Ah, this explains why there is so much crap on the Internet. I wonder what other organisms they would find a typical slashdotters keyboard?
I worked in a call center supporting customers who purchased extended warranties for various consumer electronics: printers, computers, digital cameras, scanners, etc. I came to the conclusion is that the only thing people should know about computers is they are too stupid to own one. Most of the time I punished the end users by replacing their printer with a crappy refurb or making them reinstall their OS. Though, I was one of the few techs who actually told the customer they'd lose all their data.
It would be nice if retailers put up a sign that read You must be this smart to buy a computer. It would have a picture of a geek complete with pocket protector and thick glasses. Oh and he'd be holding a sliderule.
When I was done with the call most of the time I'd notate their account with PEBKAC (problem exists between keyboard and chair).
I'll tell you what essence of Geek is. My friend, a sys admin, ate dinner at The Stinking Rose (they season your garlic with food) in San Francisco one night. The next day he had some serious gas. A co-worker, another IT person, went into his office said they smelled pizza and that it smelled good. He did not dissuade from that notion.
Obligatory H2G2 quote:
It should be explained at this point that modern elevators are strange and complex entities. The ancient electric winch and maximum capacity eight person jobs bear as much relation to a Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Happy Vertical People Transporter as a packet of peanuts does to the entire West Wing of the Sirian State Mental Hospital. This is because they operate on the unlikely principle of defocused temporal perception, a curious system which enables the elevator to be on the right floor to pick you up even before you knew you wanted it, thus eliminating all the tedious chatting, relaxing, and making friends that people were previoiusly forced to do whilst waiting for elevators.
Not unnaturally, many Lifts imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up or down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision making process, and finally took to sulking in basements.
At this point a man named Gogrilla Mincefriend rediscovered and patented a device he had seen in a history book called a staircase. It has been calculated that his most recent tax bill paid for the social security of 5,000 redundant Sirius Cybernetics workers, the hospitalization of a hundred Sirius Cybernetics executives and the psychiatric treatment of over seventeen and a half thousand neurotic Lifts.
Why are slashdotters so bad at math? Because they keep telling their hand it's six inches.
This is indeed a breakthrough. They can make the entire pig glow green previously they could only make certain body parts glow like their testicles.
I'd love to have a glowing pig so I can tell the neighbors it's radioactive.
For some reason I'm reminded of a bumper sticker I once saw:
Beer! It's the reason I get up in the afternoon!
Why are there so many kooks on Slashdot? What is it about this place that attracts the ignorant and paranoid?
...well, boy,... that's a tough call.
It's flypaper for freaks. They were always paranoid.
I don't know but between choosing Ruby on Rails evangelistas and the army of undead Amiga enthusiasts or choosing the ignorant kooks is
Actually it reminds me of those pictures cops show of a recently deceased John Doe (or in France a Jean Deaux): Please identify this person. I'll bet the number of posts he submits on slashdot will drop now that he's leveraged himself into a ZDNet slot.
From the interview: Yes, I can see why they hired him. Ask a stupid incomprehensible softball question you get Roland for an answer. Below is another stupid question from the brain dead interviewer. I decided to quote part of an answer he gave for a different question. I think it makes more sense. So you see, Roland was clearly working the slashdot system to get a better job. Along the way he acquired a Roland Anti-Fan Club. And if you read further down in the "English-is-not-our-native-tongue" interview they even discuss the slashdot connection. I must set my goals higher than trying to get my posts modded funny.
Interesting the name Roland should come up. That was the first name I thought of when I saw the headline. Roland Piquepaille should just retire his name and change it to something else like say Serdar Argic. Of course Roland is no Serdar. After all Wikipedia nuked Roland's entry.
Sounds like the name of a new candy bar.
the mad scientists in the lab decided to fill the case up with 8 gallons of cooking oil.
Were they planning to fry a turkey? Oh wait, they'd need dual Xeons for that. Mmmm...turkey.
And yes they'll be using this new warp drive to land on the surface of the Sun. It's solid you know! If it's posted on the Internet it must be true. They'll land at night when it's cooler.