So, if they are trying to sell you something, how are you supposed to buy it if you actually want to enlarge your penis?
A lot of my spam has a real return address (I've not tried it, but it must be real if they're trying to make money through it). Sometimes it's just a link to a website (so that spam has probably a fake address). Sometimes they say "do not use the reply button, write to spammer@spamhouse.com". In that case, the address in the message body is probably real, and the address in the From line is quite certainly fake.
I would rewrite parent as "Spammers sometimes use fake sender addresses". And of course, viruses are almost from a fake (or real, but spoofed) address.
If you follow the second link on the article, you'll se that they plan to use meanings and not words as translation keys. Meanings are taken from wordnet.
Spanish keyboards are even sillier. They have no '~' key. You sit at a spanish keyboard and look through all the keyboard, and the only thing similar to '~' is de 'Ñ' key (Ntilde).
Fortunately, most linux keyboard maps have '~' mapped to AltGr+4 (which is unused on spanish layouts). On some layouts is dead_tilde, so you have to do AltGr+4 twice.
On windows, I have to do Alt+126 (no home directory there, so mostly to type URLs).
Now that you said so, I checked and it's true. I checked before writing with Galeon, I thought that behavior came frm Mozilla... I guess it has probably a modified stylesheet.
Not all that is gold does <BLINK>
Not all those who are open are lost.
The lizard that's strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the exploits.
From the ashes a phoenix^Wfirebird^Wfirefox shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be Netscape (that was broken),
The crownless again shall be king
In Cordoba (the second biggest city in the country) cybercafe prices varies from AR$0.75 to AR$1.50. FYI, 3AR$ = 1US$, so we're talking about US$0.25 to US$0.50 instead of US$3 as the article states. More than 90% of the cybercafes are at AR$1.
In Buenos Aires (the capital) prices are slightly higher but no more tha AR$2.
This holiday I went to a very touristic beach city, with low conectivity and expensive connectivity the price was between 3 and 5 AR$ (i.e., between 1.00 and 1.66 US$). To find places with more expensive rates one would have to look at very remote places, or expensive hotels and airports.
All the linux update tools I know (apt, red-carpet, urpmi) run perfectly with the firewall up and at maximum paranoia level. So I could install, set my firewall to reject all incoming connections, and update; that would leave me vulnerable only to very basic level exploits (like some hypothetical hole in ICMP).
I've not used windows update, but the poster said it asked to lower the firewall, and I think that's a weak point.
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I usually use NumLock for that...
Scroll lock is useful to stop the console scrolling (in linux VCs) when some program is spewing lots of data to stdout/err
It can be dangerous. I remember once pressing it accidentally while burning a CD. cdrecord locked trying to write its progress to the console, the CDwriter buffer emptied, and I lost the CD.
Your proof is incomplete... you say " (p + 1) has 2 as a factor, therefore (p + 1) is not prime". But it could be that p+1 is exactly 2, so you could have a pair of prime twins
(a zorchillion,two).
PS: It's a joke. Please, please don't complete the proof for me.
Unlike the windows registry, each GConf app includes the schema with the keys it uses, including its type and documentation. If that key does not exists, it means it's not supported by your currently installed version of nautilus.
If it does exists, selecting it at gconf-editor will allow you to see it's value, type, and documentation.
Dual boot P200 (recently upgraded from a P100 that died... not much money to buy new equipment here).
Windows95 with OO.org; OO.org set to use MS formats so they can communicate with other people. They can't switch completely to Linux because they are given windows apps to run (stupid form filling stuff) frequently at their work.
Networking is done on Linux only. Mozilla+Balsa. They have windowmaker as desktop. Yes, windowmaker. That way, they don't have lots of panels they don't know how to use, just two big square buttons for the apps. They don't need more, and are quite happyy with that.
We have a small network in myy home, and they are quite firewalled, with me administering the firewall. Not a single security problem with this seetup (no adware, no popups, no random installing of software or random delting of system files, no crashes)
The war in Iraq proved to have the least number of non-combatant casualties of ANY war, EVER before.
Completely false.
A quite conventional war, the Falklands War, fought in 1982 between England and Argentina had a 1 figure count for civilian casualties: 3. Check here: House on the outskirts of Stanley hit by British shelling, causing the only civilian casualties of the war.
Killed in Action: Mrs Doreen Bonner , Mrs Mary Goodwin , Mrs Susan Whitley .
The Iraq War had a lot more casualties. Check for estimates at http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
(about 9000 civilian casualties).
Your comment might be a joke, but I actually prefer one-dimensional file-lists. When looking up something on an alphabetical list, it's much easier to read vertically instead of horizontally, with labels left aligned.
Filemanagers like Nautilus, Konqueror or IE, in icon view, show a lot of icons, from left to right, with centered labels and looking up something is quite hard. Besides, horizontal contiguity means something, but vertical contguity does not (and actually is changed when you resize the window). So rectangular selections there (as done by rubberbanding) are quite artificial there,
I always switch to list view (i.e. 1D) when using this programs for anything serious (except perhaps watching thumbnails, which are 2D data). Or I use my favorite file manager, midnight commander, a 1D program that is very comfortable.
Running a 10 year old linux on a 10 year old computer is just as interesting as running DOS or Win3.0 on it, though only half as useful. (Mod me down if you must, but linux was still very much a toy for comp sci students back then)
Wrong! I have a 33Mhz 486 DX w/8MB of RAM running two meters at my left. It runs Debian Woody 3 (no old distro) and XFree4.
When I'm working w/someone else I boot it up and launch ssh or X remotely.
I can use a GNOME2 session in that box w/o no problem (scrolling is a little slow, because of the old videocard, but it's very usable).
I had no need to use an old distro. Debian worked out of the box; I optimized it a little removing VTs, disabling seervices and recompiling a custom 2.2 kernel, but it worked even w/o that.
I use a simple scheme that allows having lots of easily rememberable not-so-bad passwords. It's similar (actually a generalization) to what some other/.ers have proposed:
What you need is: a) a set G, not very small, of things you can remember easily. b) a function f:G->K, where K is the key space. Then, for each password you need you choose some element x in G, and use f(x) as the password.
An example helps a lot. For example, let's choose G=the st of Scienci Fiction books (bc you probably know titles of a lot of them). Then, given a book x you say:
f(x)=the first word of x title, capitalized, followed by the initials in all-caps of the remaining word, followed by the number of words, followeed by the author of x backwards.
For example if x is "Stranger from a strange land", written by Heinlein, f(x)="StrangerFASL5nielnieH"
Now, for each password you remember just one SF book. That is easier to memorize and changes for each password, and f,G become part of every password of yours. If you choose more carefully f, and G, someone getting one of your passwords will get a hard time guessing f and G, assuming he already knows you use this system. And even if he knows f and G, he will probably not have automated tools to scanning through all G (that's why G should be big; the G I proposed is probably not good enough, but better than having a single password anyway).
You have annoyances with Linux? It's uncomfortable to you that some things work right in Windows/MacOS and not in Linux?
OK. I won't give you the lame old answer "fix it yourself", because peerhaps you are not a programmer, or don;t have the time to fix Linux. How much did you pay for your Windows/MacOS software? $200 to $500 (not only the OS, the apps too)? Send your list of annoyances and probably I (and/or other competent programmers) can fix them for that amount, if you pay us.
Perhaps your annoyances are bigger problems, and $500 is too little money to fix them. But if you have 5 friends with the same problem, $2500 could be enough. Anyway, asking it's free.
[Actually, I don't think I'm competent enough to solve several of the annoyances posted in this thread. But you can very probably find somee programmer interested. More if he/she lives in the 3rd world, wheere your money probably is worth a lot more].
I mostly agree, but the original poster has a couple of points in its favor.
It's true that UNIX tools should behave in "the UNIX way" of doing only one thing very well. cdrecord shouldn't generate ISOs, it's not its job.
But the tar example is a little different. The UNIX way says that tar shouldn't know about compression formats, but it already does; the -z and -j options are th obvious signs of that. It's true that tar doesn't handle the compression, but delegates it to gzip/bzip2, but that options make tar compression-aware anyway
There are to roads out of that:
1) Remove that features from tar. tar is an archiver, it shouldn't handle compression. why gzip and bzip2 and not, like you say ZIP, LHA, encodings, etc...?
2) If you add that options to tar, add them correctly. I hate programs with an '--do-this-the-obvious-and-only-right-way' (The classic example being the emacs option to make the X clipboard to behav according to the standard). That option should be hardcoded to true and removed from the interface. If you are a tar developer and want to includ gzip support you shouldn't add a -z option, you should add compression detection.
I don't hate options, but I hate that kind of options that nobody in a non-broken environment would want to changed (OTOH, that must come with tools to turn a broken environmnt into an unbroken onee, but I disgress)...
I'm often saddened when I think of the Dark Ages, roughly 500 years of technological evolution halting with our own will. Had the Dark Ages never occured, we'd more than likely living in a world very much like that of Star Trek or various other Science Fiction stories.
The Dark Ages weren't too much of a halt as your Western-Centric mindset makes you think. It's true that what was the Roman Empire (i.e., most of Europe) became stagnant culturally for a lot of time. But other advanced cultures at the time (Arabic and Chinese, for example), keep developing at that time.
When Europe started to advance again, and travellers started going to the East and exchange knowledge, Western Culture adopted several of the advances, like positional-based number systems and gunpowder.
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try http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ip?yes or http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ip?-2
Spammers always use fake sender addresses
So, if they are trying to sell you something, how are you supposed to buy it if you actually want to enlarge your penis?
A lot of my spam has a real return address (I've not tried it, but it must be real if they're trying to make money through it). Sometimes it's just a link to a website (so that spam has probably a fake address). Sometimes they say "do not use the reply button, write to spammer@spamhouse.com". In that case, the address in the message body is probably real, and the address in the From line is quite certainly fake.
I would rewrite parent as "Spammers sometimes use fake sender addresses". And of course, viruses are almost from a fake (or real, but spoofed) address.
If you follow the second link on the article, you'll se that they plan to use meanings and not words as translation keys. Meanings are taken from wordnet.
Spanish keyboards are even sillier. They have no '~' key. You sit at a spanish keyboard and look through all the keyboard, and the only thing similar to '~' is de 'Ñ' key (Ntilde).
Fortunately, most linux keyboard maps have '~' mapped to AltGr+4 (which is unused on spanish layouts). On some layouts is dead_tilde, so you have to do AltGr+4 twice.
On windows, I have to do Alt+126 (no home directory there, so mostly to type URLs).
SmartEiffel (the GNU Eiffel compiler) is also able to compile to JVM bytecode (besides its more usual mode, which produces C code).
This must be the code used 4 years ago: In the case of a tie, it gives the victory to Bush!
Now that you said so, I checked and it's true. I checked before writing with Galeon, I thought that behavior came frm Mozilla... I guess it has probably a modified stylesheet.
Anyway... you get the idea :)
Not all that is gold does <BLINK>
Not all those who are open are lost.
The lizard that's strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the exploits.
From the ashes a phoenix^Wfirebird^Wfirefox shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be Netscape (that was broken),
The crownless again shall be king
In Cordoba (the second biggest city in the country) cybercafe prices varies from AR$0.75 to AR$1.50. FYI, 3AR$ = 1US$, so we're talking about US$0.25 to US$0.50 instead of US$3 as the article states. More than 90% of the cybercafes are at AR$1.
In Buenos Aires (the capital) prices are slightly higher but no more tha AR$2.
This holiday I went to a very touristic beach city, with low conectivity and expensive connectivity the price was between 3 and 5 AR$ (i.e., between 1.00 and 1.66 US$). To find places with more expensive rates one would have to look at very remote places, or expensive hotels and airports.
All the linux update tools I know (apt, red-carpet, urpmi) run perfectly with the firewall up and at maximum paranoia level. So I could install, set my firewall to reject all incoming connections, and update; that would leave me vulnerable only to very basic level exploits (like some hypothetical hole in ICMP).
I've not used windows update, but the poster said it asked to lower the firewall, and I think that's a weak point.
I usually use NumLock for that...
Scroll lock is useful to stop the console scrolling (in linux VCs) when some program is spewing lots of data to stdout/err
It can be dangerous. I remember once pressing it accidentally while burning a CD. cdrecord locked trying to write its progress to the console, the CDwriter buffer emptied, and I lost the CD.
Your proof is incomplete... you say " (p + 1) has 2 as a factor, therefore (p + 1) is not prime". But it could be that p+1 is exactly 2, so you could have a pair of prime twins (a zorchillion,two).
PS: It's a joke. Please, please don't complete the proof for me.
Unlike the windows registry, each GConf app includes the schema with the keys it uses, including its type and documentation. If that key does not exists, it means it's not supported by your currently installed version of nautilus.
If it does exists, selecting it at gconf-editor will allow you to see it's value, type, and documentation.
Dual boot P200 (recently upgraded from a P100 that died... not much money to buy new equipment here).
Windows95 with OO.org; OO.org set to use MS formats so they can communicate with other people. They can't switch completely to Linux because they are given windows apps to run (stupid form filling stuff) frequently at their work.
Networking is done on Linux only. Mozilla+Balsa. They have windowmaker as desktop. Yes, windowmaker. That way, they don't have lots of panels they don't know how to use, just two big square buttons for the apps. They don't need more, and are quite happyy with that.
We have a small network in myy home, and they are quite firewalled, with me administering the firewall. Not a single security problem with this seetup (no adware, no popups, no random installing of software or random delting of system files, no crashes)
The war in Iraq proved to have the least number of non-combatant casualties of ANY war, EVER before.
Completely false.
A quite conventional war, the Falklands War, fought in 1982 between England and Argentina had a 1 figure count for civilian casualties: 3. Check here: House on the outskirts of Stanley hit by British shelling, causing the only civilian casualties of the war. Killed in Action: Mrs Doreen Bonner , Mrs Mary Goodwin , Mrs Susan Whitley .
The Iraq War had a lot more casualties. Check for estimates at http://www.iraqbodycount.net/ (about 9000 civilian casualties).
It's called Red Carpet
Your comment might be a joke, but I actually prefer one-dimensional file-lists. When looking up something on an alphabetical list, it's much easier to read vertically instead of horizontally, with labels left aligned.
Filemanagers like Nautilus, Konqueror or IE, in icon view, show a lot of icons, from left to right, with centered labels and looking up something is quite hard. Besides, horizontal contiguity means something, but vertical contguity does not (and actually is changed when you resize the window). So rectangular selections there (as done by rubberbanding) are quite artificial there,
I always switch to list view (i.e. 1D) when using this programs for anything serious (except perhaps watching thumbnails, which are 2D data). Or I use my favorite file manager, midnight commander, a 1D program that is very comfortable.
Running a 10 year old linux on a 10 year old computer is just as interesting as running DOS or Win3.0 on it, though only half as useful. (Mod me down if you must, but linux was still very much a toy for comp sci students back then)
Wrong! I have a 33Mhz 486 DX w/8MB of RAM running two meters at my left. It runs Debian Woody 3 (no old distro) and XFree4. When I'm working w/someone else I boot it up and launch ssh or X remotely.
I can use a GNOME2 session in that box w/o no problem (scrolling is a little slow, because of the old videocard, but it's very usable).
I had no need to use an old distro. Debian worked out of the box; I optimized it a little removing VTs, disabling seervices and recompiling a custom 2.2 kernel, but it worked even w/o that.
I use a simple scheme that allows having lots of easily rememberable not-so-bad passwords. It's similar (actually a generalization) to what some other /.ers have proposed:
What you need is: a) a set G, not very small, of things you can remember easily. b) a function f:G->K, where K is the key space. Then, for each password you need you choose some element x in G, and use f(x) as the password.
An example helps a lot. For example, let's choose G=the st of Scienci Fiction books (bc you probably know titles of a lot of them). Then, given a book x you say:
f(x)=the first word of x title, capitalized, followed by the initials in all-caps of the remaining word, followed by the number of words, followeed by the author of x backwards.
For example if x is "Stranger from a strange land", written by Heinlein, f(x)="StrangerFASL5nielnieH"
Now, for each password you remember just one SF book. That is easier to memorize and changes for each password, and f,G become part of every password of yours. If you choose more carefully f, and G, someone getting one of your passwords will get a hard time guessing f and G, assuming he already knows you use this system. And even if he knows f and G, he will probably not have automated tools to scanning through all G (that's why G should be big; the G I proposed is probably not good enough, but better than having a single password anyway).
so ***World crippled by 18 year old*** makes you feel much better about it?
You have annoyances with Linux? It's uncomfortable to you that some things work right in Windows/MacOS and not in Linux?
OK. I won't give you the lame old answer "fix it yourself", because peerhaps you are not a programmer, or don;t have the time to fix Linux. How much did you pay for your Windows/MacOS software? $200 to $500 (not only the OS, the apps too)? Send your list of annoyances and probably I (and/or other competent programmers) can fix them for that amount, if you pay us.
Perhaps your annoyances are bigger problems, and $500 is too little money to fix them. But if you have 5 friends with the same problem, $2500 could be enough. Anyway, asking it's free.
[Actually, I don't think I'm competent enough to solve several of the annoyances posted in this thread. But you can very probably find somee programmer interested. More if he/she lives in the 3rd world, wheere your money probably is worth a lot more].
if you prefer so, you can
tar -cv file1 fil2 file3 file4 >archive.tar
I mostly agree, but the original poster has a couple of points in its favor.
It's true that UNIX tools should behave in "the UNIX way" of doing only one thing very well. cdrecord shouldn't generate ISOs, it's not its job.
But the tar example is a little different. The UNIX way says that tar shouldn't know about compression formats, but it already does; the -z and -j options are th obvious signs of that. It's true that tar doesn't handle the compression, but delegates it to gzip/bzip2, but that options make tar compression-aware anyway
There are to roads out of that:
1) Remove that features from tar. tar is an archiver, it shouldn't handle compression. why gzip and bzip2 and not, like you say ZIP, LHA, encodings, etc...?
2) If you add that options to tar, add them correctly. I hate programs with an '--do-this-the-obvious-and-only-right-way' (The classic example being the emacs option to make the X clipboard to behav according to the standard). That option should be hardcoded to true and removed from the interface. If you are a tar developer and want to includ gzip support you shouldn't add a -z option, you should add compression detection.
I don't hate options, but I hate that kind of options that nobody in a non-broken environment would want to changed (OTOH, that must come with tools to turn a broken environmnt into an unbroken onee, but I disgress)...
PS: I personally favor option 1
I'm often saddened when I think of the Dark Ages, roughly 500 years of technological evolution halting with our own will. Had the Dark Ages never occured, we'd more than likely living in a world very much like that of Star Trek or various other Science Fiction stories.
The Dark Ages weren't too much of a halt as your Western-Centric mindset makes you think. It's true that what was the Roman Empire (i.e., most of Europe) became stagnant culturally for a lot of time. But other advanced cultures at the time (Arabic and Chinese, for example), keep developing at that time.
When Europe started to advance again, and travellers started going to the East and exchange knowledge, Western Culture adopted several of the advances, like positional-based number systems and gunpowder.
I'm still working on my port of Linux to Turing machines...