Do you have any proof it requires "excessive amounts of time to be amusing" ?
My wife and I have played maybe 4-6 hours per week for almost two years now. Sure, we're just reaching level 50 at that pace but we've had fun without wrecking our real lives.
If you are hosting tens, hundres, or thousands of sites, you should look into mod_vhost_alias If properly setup it can - takes care of creating new vhost - disabling a vhost - modify properties by allowing.htaccess overrides
All without restarting apache and interrupting your other sites. If you're manually managing evan a handful of vhosts via a static config file, I'd take your analysis with a grain of salt.
Plus, if you are hosting thousands of sites how are you staying sane if you let each one have its own unique settings?
Instead of sorting this way, you can probably use Thunderbird's saved searches option to filter messages by the spamassin header you're interested in. You'll have to define that custom header in the header pulldown.
You're right but unless you're encrypting them in javascript before a form sends it to the server, passwords are making they're way from the browser to your server in plaintext (even over ssl - there its just the transport that's encrypted).
From there, a truly malicious user could get them from database select statements (by turning on and looking at db logs, like mysql's query log), or changing your CMS's authentication code to also email the username/passwords during the authentication process to an external address or to drop them into a file.
After a lot of research. I came to the conclusion that a projector makes sense if you want a huge image but don't have the room for a massive TV. This is what I was looking for when I started shopping: 1) multiple inputs ( s-video, rca video, vga ) I did component input via a component to vga cable (bought 75' online whereas the official sharp cable was $50 for 15' of cable. 2) Small ( not enough room in our family room for a big LCD TV, plus the room is on the 2nd floor. ) 3) Support for HDTV resolutions ( i just use 480p for DVD movies now ) 4) under $1500 - i didn't want to spend more because of the cost of bulbs. Still, factoring in that I'll replace the bulb in a couple of years I've still spent less than a decent LCD tv. Also, I had to budget for buying a home theatre receiver and speakers.
We don't use the projector for everyday tv watching, but its AWESOME to throw up a huge image across the wall for movies and video games (mario kart & rogue squadron ).
Product Info ( i don't work for sharp, own their stock, I just bought the projector): http://www.sharpusa.com/products/Mode lLanding/0,10 58,1055,00.html
There is a definite tight rope that has to be walked particularly when we are trying to make a Linux Desktop more usable for your average computer user from the get go? Too much choice at the outset can be quite a challenge, how do you know whether to choose Galeon/Mozilla/Firefox/Epiphany/Konqueror when what you really care about is if you can connect to WWW right after installation. Distributions that succeed on the desktop have to make a lot of these choices for novice users. The power of Linux, as opposed to what you get in the Windows world, is that you're not stuck with the choices your distribution makes for you. Once you get your feet wet and used to it, you can explore your options. Plus, anyone who says that choice is a good thing has never been shoping for rings with their girlfriend.
About a week ago, Ie installed the latest version of JavaHMO and it works great. I didn't get the feeling that it's rough around the edges. Seems like a lot of work has gone into it lately. The only bug I encountered was the installer crashing at 80% but theres a documented way to install from a regular zip file.
What's a fair price to pay for the value of a distribution like Xandros. $40 seems like a fair price to me. Seems like a good distro on CD would be worth as much to me as any of the Special Edition DVDs of TheLord of The Rings/Matrix/Star Wars/Insert-your-favorite-movie-here.
It's perfect for letting some sites show you ads, like umm..slashdot, and blocking others.
Smarter in blocking content by letting you use wildcards. I've been using it on Firebird, it ads a tab on top of ads to block with a single click. You can also click on the statusbar to see what is blockable/blocked on a page.
Well, I used one of those discount registrars for a group of addresses, and I deeply regretted the decision.
Can you tell us which one you used instead of painting them all as incompetent? I've used GoDaddy for two years now without experiencing any problems like you described.
I can't really think of any reason to justify them switching to Linux. No matter how easy it is to use.
How bout not being subject to the windows worm/virus/exploit of the week or susceptible to spyware/malware being installed without your consent? The activities you listed are pretty much all my sister uses her PC for day to day. After the 3rd reinstall of windows on her pc in one year, I convinced her to try out Mandrake (8.1 at the time) and she hasn't looked back since.
Check out the Tivo FAQ, you don't HAVE to buy the service: "Without the TiVo service, a TiVo DVR has extremely limited functionality." Basically without the Tivo service, you don't get the program guide data and all the intelligent features TiVo has for automatically recording shows you like. Instead, you get a box that you have to manually program to record the channel+time+duration for the shows you want, exactly like a VCR.
I haven't seen this mentioned but its a relatively new site that helps you figure out if a particular band/label/album is affiliated with the RIAA. Best of all it has a cool bookmarklet for using when shopping on Amazon.
More projects/project managers are being measured on two things: on time & on budget. 'Quick' helps them meet those targets. All that managers are concerned with is that the thing works when the client sees it, with little concern for futuure usability of it or if the code is well done/elegant. Most probably wouldn't be able to judge code in that capacity anyway.
Wow - I've gone in the exact opposite direction. PC Games were great in High School and College when I had lots of time to track hardware upgrades (video cards) and mess with DirectX and game patches.
When I got a job I found it hard to find time to play PC games. I was into strategy games like Warlords Battlecry and CivIII and occasionaly an FPS. A year ago I broke down and got a GameCube and that's where I get my gaming fix now - pop in a CD, listen to the cute loadup music and I'm good to go.
The convenience afforded by a console pretty much outweighs the pro's of PC gaming, in my opinion. But I do miss the longer/deeper game play that a Civ3 game gives, or a good multiplayer fragfest. Just this week I picked up Galactic Civilizations, the first PC game I bought since CIV3 almost 2 years ago.
Of course, if the price on a PS2 does drop I may end up getting one just so I can play Winning Eleven. I bought the GC because MLS Extratime was based on an earlier engine from Konami and it was only available on XBox and GC.
Didn't see anyone else make this point yet but you *can* get a Tivo with a lifetime subscription for $300 bucks now. Sure you have to spend more money on top of the hardware but then you don't get to complain about the monthly charge.
At stake in this campaign, according to Eisner, is "the status quo of the American entertainment industry, the status quo of American consumers, the status quo of America's balance of international trade." Eisner was surrounded by the surviving members of the American Whip-makers Association and the Wainwright Guild of America.
scare them more, make sure you click on the link in the news blurb up top so that slashdot shows up prominently (hopefully) as the referrer in their http logs.
The only downside I can see is that the potential for the genetic diversity of our food/meet supply could get dramatically smaller. But overall I think the benefits are worth it,
Although, I guess know people could just clone gorilla/lion/spotted-owls for meat and not feel bad about eating it.
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Do you have any proof it requires "excessive amounts of time to be amusing" ?
My wife and I have played maybe 4-6 hours per week for almost two years now. Sure, we're just reaching level 50 at that pace but we've had fun without wrecking our real lives.
If you are hosting tens, hundres, or thousands of sites, you should look into mod_vhost_alias .htaccess overrides
If properly setup it can
- takes care of creating new vhost
- disabling a vhost
- modify properties by allowing
All without restarting apache and interrupting your other sites. If you're manually managing evan a handful of vhosts via a static config file, I'd take your analysis with a grain of salt.
Plus, if you are hosting thousands of sites how are you staying sane if you let each one have its own unique settings?
why is this insightfull. If a feed is full of noise/ads that it annoys you, wouldn't you unsubscribe? This is just complaining for complaining's sake.
Instead of sorting this way, you can probably use Thunderbird's saved searches option to filter messages by the spamassin header you're interested in. You'll have to define that custom header in the header pulldown.
You're right but unless you're encrypting them in javascript before a form sends it to the server, passwords are making they're way from the browser to your server in plaintext (even over ssl - there its just the transport that's encrypted).
From there, a truly malicious user could get them from database select statements (by turning on and looking at db logs, like mysql's query log), or changing your CMS's authentication code to also email the username/passwords during the authentication process to an external address or to drop them into a file.
After a lot of research. I came to the conclusion that a projector makes sense if you want a huge image but don't have the room for a massive TV.
e lLanding/0,10 58,1055,00.html
This is what I was looking for when I started shopping:
1) multiple inputs ( s-video, rca video, vga ) I did component input via a component to vga cable (bought 75' online whereas the official sharp cable was $50 for 15' of cable.
2) Small ( not enough room in our family room for a big LCD TV, plus the room is on the 2nd floor. )
3) Support for HDTV resolutions ( i just use 480p for DVD movies now )
4) under $1500 - i didn't want to spend more because of the cost of bulbs. Still, factoring in that I'll replace the bulb in a couple of years I've still spent less than a decent LCD tv. Also, I had to budget for buying a home theatre receiver and speakers.
We don't use the projector for everyday tv watching, but its AWESOME to throw up a huge image across the wall for movies and video games (mario kart & rogue squadron ).
Product Info ( i don't work for sharp, own their stock, I just bought the projector):
http://www.sharpusa.com/products/Mod
There is a definite tight rope that has to be walked particularly when we are trying to make a Linux Desktop more usable for your average computer user from the get go? Too much choice at the outset can be quite a challenge, how do you know whether to choose Galeon/Mozilla/Firefox/Epiphany/Konqueror when what you really care about is if you can connect to WWW right after installation.
Distributions that succeed on the desktop have to make a lot of these choices for novice users. The power of Linux, as opposed to what you get in the Windows world, is that you're not stuck with the choices your distribution makes for you. Once you get your feet wet and used to it, you can explore your options.
Plus, anyone who says that choice is a good thing has never been shoping for rings with their girlfriend.
Grab your tivo remote: press Select, Play, Select, 3, 0, select. The button that moves the marker forward 15 minutes is now a 30 second skip button.
About a week ago, Ie installed the latest version of JavaHMO and it works great. I didn't get the feeling that it's rough around the edges. Seems like a lot of work has gone into it lately. The only bug I encountered was the installer crashing at 80% but theres a documented way to install from a regular zip file.
mod parent up - we need better ways to measure what people are watching on TV.
What's a fair price to pay for the value of a distribution like Xandros. $40 seems like a fair price to me. Seems like a good distro on CD would be worth as much to me as any of the Special Edition DVDs of TheLord of The Rings/Matrix/Star Wars/Insert-your-favorite-movie-here.
I'd recommend the AdBlock project to kill both imge and flash ads, http://adblock.mozdev.org/.
It's perfect for letting some sites show you ads, like umm..slashdot, and blocking others.
Smarter in blocking content by letting you use wildcards. I've been using it on Firebird, it ads a tab on top of ads to block with a single click. You can also click on the statusbar to see what is blockable/blocked on a page.
or could it be that their (Mac owners) OS is less likely to go on wild adventures without them?
see http://drbd.cubit.at/ DRBD is described as RAID1 over a network.
Rsync with a cron script would work too. I think there is a recipe in the linux hacks books to do something like what you are looking for: #292.
Can you tell us which one you used instead of painting them all as incompetent? I've used GoDaddy for two years now without experiencing any problems like you described.
How bout not being subject to the windows worm/virus/exploit of the week or susceptible to spyware/malware being installed without your consent? The activities you listed are pretty much all my sister uses her PC for day to day. After the 3rd reinstall of windows on her pc in one year, I convinced her to try out Mandrake (8.1 at the time) and she hasn't looked back since.
Check out the Tivo FAQ, you don't HAVE to buy the service: "Without the TiVo service, a TiVo DVR has extremely limited functionality." Basically without the Tivo service, you don't get the program guide data and all the intelligent features TiVo has for automatically recording shows you like. Instead, you get a box that you have to manually program to record the channel+time+duration for the shows you want, exactly like a VCR.
I haven't seen this mentioned but its a relatively new site that helps you figure out if a particular band/label/album is affiliated with the RIAA. Best of all it has a cool bookmarklet for using when shopping on Amazon.
Check: http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/
BTW I'm not at all associated with the site.
More projects/project managers are being measured on two things: on time & on budget. 'Quick' helps them meet those targets. All that managers are concerned with is that the thing works when the client sees it, with little concern for futuure usability of it or if the code is well done/elegant. Most probably wouldn't be able to judge code in that capacity anyway.
Wow - I've gone in the exact opposite direction. PC Games were great in High School and College when I had lots of time to track hardware upgrades (video cards) and mess with DirectX and game patches.
When I got a job I found it hard to find time to play PC games. I was into strategy games like Warlords Battlecry and CivIII and occasionaly an FPS. A year ago I broke down and got a GameCube and that's where I get my gaming fix now - pop in a CD, listen to the cute loadup music and I'm good to go.
The convenience afforded by a console pretty much outweighs the pro's of PC gaming, in my opinion. But I do miss the longer/deeper game play that a Civ3 game gives, or a good multiplayer fragfest. Just this week I picked up Galactic Civilizations, the first PC game I bought since CIV3 almost 2 years ago.
Of course, if the price on a PS2 does drop I may end up getting one just so I can play Winning Eleven. I bought the GC because MLS Extratime was based on an earlier engine from Konami and it was only available on XBox and GC.
Didn't see anyone else make this point yet but you *can* get a Tivo with a lifetime subscription for $300 bucks now. Sure you have to spend more money on top of the hardware but then you don't get to complain about the monthly charge.
At stake in this campaign, according to Eisner, is "the status quo of the American entertainment industry, the status quo of American consumers, the status quo of America's balance of international trade." Eisner was surrounded by the surviving members of the American Whip-makers Association and the Wainwright Guild of America.
scare them more, make sure you click on the link in the news blurb up top so that slashdot shows up prominently (hopefully) as the referrer in their http logs.
The only downside I can see is that the potential for the genetic diversity of our food/meet supply could get dramatically smaller. But overall I think the benefits are worth it,
Although, I guess know people could just clone gorilla/lion/spotted-owls for meat and not feel bad about eating it.
I have to say that this is the Worst Post Ever.