Even my two-button serial mouse (plugged into my G3 via KVM and serial-to-ADB adapter) works just fine in OS X.
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I was helping a friend install Win2KPro on his home machine to do some development work (for work, of course). I'm not a big Win guy, but I've done the point-click install before.
Anyway, as soon as we were done (installing while his home network was live), we tried getting to windowsupdate.microsoft.com to install patches. However, we soon discovered that we were already infected! Two freaking minutes after installation!!
If you don't install behind a firewall, how the hell are you supposed to get updates to all of Win2kPro's problems without getting infected?
A friend of mine (web developer) says that he's created a way to increase the hit count among all the sites he creates. He uses a server-side Perl scripts to determine if the Google bot is hitting a page, and includes links to *all* of the sites' homepages that they are hosting. So if he includes this script on every page of every site he hosts, then every page links to every site.
Does this work? I mean, they include (in plain English) something like "Here are some of the other sites we, [our web design firm], created and host" along with a short blurb. It sounds like it would work, right?
Lifetime Menace, Runners Up
IBM for years of selling computers to developing countries that are used to suppress populations and for lobbying against privacy laws and standards wordlwide
IBM awarded, partly, for selling computers to developing countries that are used to suppress populations? Doesn't every company in the US try to sell computers to as many other countries as it can? Should Linus get mentioned for a reward because the Chinese government (who don't give a damn about privacy) get to use Linux (and for free)?
No wonder they yanked it, there's no reason to have a high-level race dialogue among second graders.
Do you have kids? My five year-old (kindergarten) asks me questions about race all the time.
"Dad, why do only black people work at McDonald's?"
"Son, that's not true. That's just because the McDonald's we go to, there's more black people that live around there." (and we drove to another area of town to show him that all types of people work in fast-food.
"Dad, why do only black people sing rap music?"
So I proceeded (with great hesitation) to show up a picture of Eminem.
I read somewhere that the average five year old asks 200 questions a day. I'm not about to stifle his inquisitive or critical thinking. For example, we've been reading the old Narnia books, and he asks me what "slaves" are. And I explained that many years ago, it was okay to actually own people, and how wrong that thinking was.
I think it's enlightening and refreshing and I'm glad I can treat him like a little person, instead of a mindless drone. (And in case anyone is wondering, his biological father is African-American, and his biological mother is white). One way I can contribute to social change is by educating the young, and wait for the old people to die off.
I believe the biggest hurdle to general (i.e. my mom, my grandparents, my 5 year old) personal computer use is a failure of file-management, specifically, saving files.
The idea of having to save a file, to actually do something active, in order to not lose any input is the major failure of computer interface design. Why should I have to save my work? Why wouldn't I want to save it if I didn't enter it in? Could the application (any application) simply save my work by default, even if I didn't give a name?
I believe this is why the PalmOS works so beautifully.
Go to Calendar, enter in appoitment. "Meet with Dan @ "... wait, I forgot where.
Switch to Address Book, look up Dan's info.
Switch back to Calendar. Didn't need to save anything, cause I'm right back where I was before. Oh wait, "ER" is on.
Turn off Palm.
After "ER", turn Palm back on. When I switch to Calendar, I see "Meet with Dan @" and I finish entering in my appointment.
Have you even shown someone how to use a computer for the first time? I mean someone who really has little or no experience? Sure, navigating a desktop will be confusing at first. But the biggest complaint I've seen is when they start a word processor, enter some text, and they're told to save it. "Save it? What do you mean, save it? It's right here in front of me!"
There are several options here, of course. One that I would like to see is for all applications to just save the "Untitled" documents when you quit it (and have them saved in the background in case of a crash or power outage), and automatically re-open when the application is restarted. A single document could have the name "Untitled 02-01-2001 04:45 PM" or something like that. It would get saved in special folder called "Current Work". Something. Anything different, which would be better than what we have now (which is "Do you want to save?" after I quit an app).
As my first personal computer was an Apple II, I suspect the current ideas on saving files originate from the lack of speed (both processor and disk), memory, and disk-space. Modern PC's should not have any of these limitations for automatic-saving.
If a programmer wanted to implement the so-called desktop metaphor, saving unamed-files would be automatic and natural. If I start to write (using pen and paper) a letter to Grandma, but then I'm interrupted, my letter just sits there on my desk until I return. In order for it to disappear, I have to do something active (i.e. crumple up the paper and throw it in the trash
When apps start acting this way, we'll be a lot closer to appliance-level computing. I mean, even my TV remembers what channel I was watching after I turn it off.
Flash prevents the content from being used in its own right. It prevents the use of text-to-speech technologies for sight-impared users, prevents the use of intelligent indexing systems, makes automated classification and compilation next to impossible, and generally flies in the face just about everything sensible that has happened in the last decade to make information more accessible and usable.
But isn't the whole point of this article that Flash-creation is now available via Perl (and, as I learned, was previously available in PHP and other HTML-generating languages)? I mean, all of the web pages I write use PHP or Perl to pull the content from somewhere and generate whatever HTML formatting I feel like. With (free) programmable Flash, I could easily generate two pages of content - one Flash and one non-Flash - that had the same content. For those who like the animation, it's there. For search engines, slow connections, anti-Flash people, the content is also there.
So, you decided to post the article anyway rather than wait for a response from the individuals who you are attacking? That doesn't seem like very good journalism to me.
So the HumpBackB (the author) is just supposed to sit around and wait until a response comes in? Exactly how long do you expect HumpBackB to wait? What if no response is ever given?
.name Score -1, Silly This is probably the worse option for "personal" domains i can think of. Let alone sorting problems with two people having the same name (who gets the domain? the oldest?)
Oldest? Of course not. The solution to who gets the domain will be the fairest, most equitable, most reasonable, and most common solution know to man.
The person who can afford to hire the best lawyers.
A seperation between the internet and the pornnet can be made
Only if the world can decide what is and isn't porn, and that's just not possible.
Which holds true for.kids as well. What if I want to create a site for kids that explains how and why to use condoms? What if my site explains the dangers of drug use with all of the gory details, enough to make kids interested? I see too many fuzzy details for someone to decide what is and is not appropriate for kids (in general).
This sectioning off of the web by content really concerns me. Are we going to get ISPs that refuse to carry.sex or.xxx on their DNS servers?
Why not? If a family wants to make sure that their kids don't get to these domains, I'm sure that this could be a marketing idea for family-type ISP's.
Are we going to have some committee that decides when a site cannot register under the.com or.net TLDs and must register as.adult? I realize that it is still possible to get to sites without using DNS, but it's a lot harder. This raises the spectre of censorware becoming really effective, thereby we lose one of the best arguments against it. That would really suck.
This is a valid concern. I mean, what's to stop some porn shop registering www.ilovewomenthatlooklike.kids or something like that. A.kids would only work if it were regulated (not that I support such regulation).
But weren't the domains that the OC complained about commercial domains? This one is a parody site. I thought the law allowed for this type of distinction.
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I did the same thing, except I didn't read the EULA [slap on the wrist ... "Bad citizen!"].
It has a reputation for being primarily used for pirated video
So did MP3. Sometimes being first is more important than being better.
Even my two-button serial mouse (plugged into my G3 via KVM and serial-to-ADB adapter) works just fine in OS X.
I was helping a friend install Win2KPro on his home machine to do some development work (for work, of course). I'm not a big Win guy, but I've done the point-click install before.
Anyway, as soon as we were done (installing while his home network was live), we tried getting to windowsupdate.microsoft.com to install patches. However, we soon discovered that we were already infected! Two freaking minutes after installation!!
If you don't install behind a firewall, how the hell are you supposed to get updates to all of Win2kPro's problems without getting infected?
Hope this link goes through...
rtsp://a1039.v0920d.c920.g.vr.akamaistream.net/ond emand/7/1039/920/v0001/thepost.download.akamai.com /920/msnbc/ms091101-2v.rm
A friend of mine (web developer) says that he's created a way to increase the hit count among all the sites he creates. He uses a server-side Perl scripts to determine if the Google bot is hitting a page, and includes links to *all* of the sites' homepages that they are hosting. So if he includes this script on every page of every site he hosts, then every page links to every site.
Does this work? I mean, they include (in plain English) something like "Here are some of the other sites we, [our web design firm], created and host" along with a short blurb. It sounds like it would work, right?
It seems that the new trend for major corporations (Apple, Sony, M$, et al) is to use open source code to save develpoment cost.
You're grouping together different instances of open source uses by corporations.
Who is going to enforce the GPL?
What, specifically, does this have to do with Apple?
Yeah, like I haven't already seen the VHS version already DiVX-encoded on Gnuetella...
Yahoo is already going to become a porn site.
Nope, Yahoo has changed their minds.
Lifetime Menace, Runners Up
IBM for years of selling computers to developing countries that are used to suppress populations and for lobbying against privacy laws and standards wordlwide
IBM awarded, partly, for selling computers to developing countries that are used to suppress populations? Doesn't every company in the US try to sell computers to as many other countries as it can? Should Linus get mentioned for a reward because the Chinese government (who don't give a damn about privacy) get to use Linux (and for free)?
Somebody should write one of those I-Love-You/Anna-Kournikova viruses to make sure that everyone in corporate America gets a copy of this...
No wonder they yanked it, there's no reason to have a high-level race dialogue among second graders.
Do you have kids? My five year-old (kindergarten) asks me questions about race all the time.
"Dad, why do only black people work at McDonald's?"
"Son, that's not true. That's just because the McDonald's we go to, there's more black people that live around there." (and we drove to another area of town to show him that all types of people work in fast-food.
"Dad, why do only black people sing rap music?"
So I proceeded (with great hesitation) to show up a picture of Eminem.
I read somewhere that the average five year old asks 200 questions a day. I'm not about to stifle his inquisitive or critical thinking. For example, we've been reading the old Narnia books, and he asks me what "slaves" are. And I explained that many years ago, it was okay to actually own people, and how wrong that thinking was.
I think it's enlightening and refreshing and I'm glad I can treat him like a little person, instead of a mindless drone. (And in case anyone is wondering, his biological father is African-American, and his biological mother is white). One way I can contribute to social change is by educating the young, and wait for the old people to die off.
Huh? They didn't get more market-share then Netscape until they had a better product than Netscape.
I believe the biggest hurdle to general (i.e. my mom, my grandparents, my 5 year old) personal computer use is a failure of file-management, specifically, saving files.
The idea of having to save a file, to actually do something active, in order to not lose any input is the major failure of computer interface design. Why should I have to save my work? Why wouldn't I want to save it if I didn't enter it in? Could the application (any application) simply save my work by default, even if I didn't give a name?
I believe this is why the PalmOS works so beautifully.
Have you even shown someone how to use a computer for the first time? I mean someone who really has little or no experience? Sure, navigating a desktop will be confusing at first. But the biggest complaint I've seen is when they start a word processor, enter some text, and they're told to save it. "Save it? What do you mean, save it? It's right here in front of me!"
There are several options here, of course. One that I would like to see is for all applications to just save the "Untitled" documents when you quit it (and have them saved in the background in case of a crash or power outage), and automatically re-open when the application is restarted. A single document could have the name "Untitled 02-01-2001 04:45 PM" or something like that. It would get saved in special folder called "Current Work". Something. Anything different, which would be better than what we have now (which is "Do you want to save?" after I quit an app).
As my first personal computer was an Apple II, I suspect the current ideas on saving files originate from the lack of speed (both processor and disk), memory, and disk-space. Modern PC's should not have any of these limitations for automatic-saving.
If a programmer wanted to implement the so-called desktop metaphor, saving unamed-files would be automatic and natural. If I start to write (using pen and paper) a letter to Grandma, but then I'm interrupted, my letter just sits there on my desk until I return. In order for it to disappear, I have to do something active (i.e. crumple up the paper and throw it in the trash
When apps start acting this way, we'll be a lot closer to appliance-level computing. I mean, even my TV remembers what channel I was watching after I turn it off.
Flash prevents the content from being used in its own right. It prevents the use of text-to-speech technologies for sight-impared users, prevents the use of intelligent indexing systems, makes automated classification and compilation next to impossible, and generally flies in the face just about everything sensible that has happened in the last decade to make information more accessible and usable.
But isn't the whole point of this article that Flash-creation is now available via Perl (and, as I learned, was previously available in PHP and other HTML-generating languages)? I mean, all of the web pages I write use PHP or Perl to pull the content from somewhere and generate whatever HTML formatting I feel like. With (free) programmable Flash, I could easily generate two pages of content - one Flash and one non-Flash - that had the same content. For those who like the animation, it's there. For search engines, slow connections, anti-Flash people, the content is also there.
So, you decided to post the article anyway rather than wait for a response from the individuals who you are attacking? That doesn't seem like very good journalism to me.
So the HumpBackB (the author) is just supposed to sit around and wait until a response comes in? Exactly how long do you expect HumpBackB to wait? What if no response is ever given?
"Before the end of this decade, we will find ourselves an alien so help us God!"
-Al Gore
Yeah, and let's hope that these alien know how to count ballots...
Heh, I tried this link and was redirected to intersluts.com. Cool.
For ESPN, I always load (for any browser) the slightly-faster 30 index page (which I think was created for IE 3.0 users).
http://espn.go.com/index.30.html
Of course, somebody has to set up the box and it's probably not Granma. But granma can be shielded from the gory inniards of a U*X type box nowadays.
Yes, she (or anyone else) can use U*X if she has a properly designed interface that reflects some user-testing usability. It's called MacOSX.
Oldest? Of course not. The solution to who gets the domain will be the fairest, most equitable, most reasonable, and most common solution know to man.
The person who can afford to hire the best lawyers.
This sectioning off of the web by content really concerns me. Are we going to get ISPs that refuse to carry .sex or .xxx on their DNS servers?
Why not? If a family wants to make sure that their kids don't get to these domains, I'm sure that this could be a marketing idea for family-type ISP's.
Are we going to have some committee that decides when a site cannot register under the .com or .net TLDs and must register as .adult? I realize that it is still possible to get to sites without using DNS, but it's a lot harder. This raises the spectre of censorware becoming really effective, thereby we lose one of the best arguments against it. That would really suck.
This is a valid concern. I mean, what's to stop some porn shop registering www.ilovewomenthatlooklike.kids or something like that. A .kids would only work if it were regulated (not that I support such regulation).
But weren't the domains that the OC complained about commercial domains? This one is a parody site. I thought the law allowed for this type of distinction.
You are wrong. System 6.0.x ran on top of the UNIX core, and in later versions System 7.0.1 worked (I don't think it ever got to 7.5).
That's very true. I think GNU stuff worked, but it was painful.
More info is available from the A/UX FAQ.