People keep posting that the whitespace insertion is a fix for looong lines. If so, then how did the "I love wiiiiide posts" troll make really wide posts? Was that an IE bug? I haven't seen the wide posts troll in a while.. I miss him.:-)
We now need someone to create a system that lets US users tunnel INTO Iran so we can use Iran's privacy protection (funded by the US gub'mint) to protect US users from the US gub'mints warrantless TIA Big Brother spy programs.
Being able to have Flash movies in web pages is very useful. Flash movies (or a similar technology) should used instead of ActiveX controls. Being able to "program" what happens in a remote browser (i.e. viewer) is an important capability.
Nobody is making you load up Flash. Nobody is making you go to certian web pages. I'm sure that there can be a choice and variety of browsers. You can even use lynx if you wish. But don't advocate making everyone's browser feature poor. What I am advocating is that we should try to promote open standards as much as is possible in making browsers feature rich. And using the smallest set of technologies that give the biggest set of capabilities. Why have Java or SVG when Flash could have done the same thing, for instance.
and don't forget snprintf() instead of sprintf(). I've heard that sprintf() is a more common cause of buffer overflows than strcpy(). sprintf() is often used to format user input.
Suppose the government wants to reduce smoking, so it imposes a high tax on cigarettes. This is a small disincentive for smokers to stop smoking. However, the government has just INCREASED its own incentive to INCREASE smoking. In the government's eyes, smokers = tax revenue. If every smoker quit, then the goverment would be very sad. The government is the bigger addict (of tax revenue).
I'm sure my example sounds silly, but these are very real consequences of the nanny state's "good intentions". If the government really doesn't want something, it should outlaw it, not tax it. Of course, I don't think personal choices like smoking are the government business.
SCO's web site has been served by Apache on Linux. Your humble author suggests that SCO found themselves requiring a multithreaded web server, and as SCO UNIX is based on an ancient version of The UNIX spec it just couldn't cope
If SCO needed a multithreaded web server, why would they use Apache 1.3.14?
Simply adding 2k as another option to the "if" test and recompiling/rebooting allowed the CD to mount.
why not just remove the if test? Apparently the code could work with arbitrary block sizes, so why hardcode 1K, 2K, and 4K? You could ADD functionality by REMOVING code.
One might argue that computer viruses that destroy their host are reducing their chances of reproducing. Human viruses like HIV/AIDS keep their hosts alive for years and are very adept at spreading themselves.
Like you said, I wish RH would pay more attention to Fitt's Law. In RH9's Bluecurve some windows (like the terminal) do not go all the way to the right-hand side of the screen. I'll often slam my mouse to the right, trying to hit the scrollbar or window buttons, only to have my mouse click "land on" the desktop or an app beneath my terminal window.:(
I am looking forward to the next generation of US politicians, 20-30 years from now. With the old guard of religious fundamentalist politicians and judges retiring, I hope more tolerate Generation X and Y politicians will flush out these religious zealots and their racial, sexual, and religious prejudices.
Just look at those SCARY-ASS fundamentalists in the Alabama courthouse. I am scared when I realize our ONLY line of defense is a document written over 200 years ago: the US Constitution. Iraq is writing their new constitution now. Imagine if the US Constitution were written today by today's politicians. Free speech? Separation of church and state? Right to bear arms? yeah, right...
What would be the English translations of "toire" and "otearai"? As an English speaker, I don't really have an idea just HOW much "ruder" one is over the other.
Why are people so hyper-senstive to saying the word "nigger", even when discussing the word itself? Even now, I just quoted the word so readers would know I was referring to the WORD and not anything else..
What surprises me is that these worms or viruses are not more than nuisances. It would be so easy for the authors to add a lil' code to "format c:" after propagating itself. That would do more damage and cover its tracks.
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Now I can finally play Marble Madness on my cell phone!!
People keep posting that the whitespace insertion is a fix for looong lines. If so, then how did the "I love wiiiiide posts" troll make really wide posts? Was that an IE bug? I haven't seen the wide posts troll in a while.. I miss him.
We now need someone to create a system that lets US users tunnel INTO Iran so we can use Iran's privacy protection (funded by the US gub'mint) to protect US users from the US gub'mints warrantless TIA Big Brother spy programs.
but if you dismantle the do-not-call list, you are taking away the jobs of do-not-call list admins!
In Soviet Russia, prisons rape YOU!
Being able to have Flash movies in web pages is very useful. Flash movies (or a similar technology) should used instead of ActiveX controls. Being able to "program" what happens in a remote browser (i.e. viewer) is an important capability.
Nobody is making you load up Flash. Nobody is making you go to certian web pages. I'm sure that there can be a choice and variety of browsers. You can even use lynx if you wish. But don't advocate making everyone's browser feature poor. What I am advocating is that we should try to promote open standards as much as is possible in making browsers feature rich. And using the smallest set of technologies that give the biggest set of capabilities. Why have Java or SVG when Flash could have done the same thing, for instance.
Don't forget client-side Java.
and don't forget snprintf() instead of sprintf(). I've heard that sprintf() is a more common cause of buffer overflows than strcpy(). sprintf() is often used to format user input.
Suppose the government wants to reduce smoking, so it imposes a high tax on cigarettes. This is a small disincentive for smokers to stop smoking. However, the government has just INCREASED its own incentive to INCREASE smoking. In the government's eyes, smokers = tax revenue. If every smoker quit, then the goverment would be very sad. The government is the bigger addict (of tax revenue).
I'm sure my example sounds silly, but these are very real consequences of the nanny state's "good intentions". If the government really doesn't want something, it should outlaw it, not tax it. Of course, I don't think personal choices like smoking are the government business.
Doesn't Microsoft help fund KDE development? I think many of KDE's Visual Basic reject programmers work at Microsoft.
SCO's web site has been served by Apache on Linux. Your humble author suggests that SCO found themselves requiring a multithreaded web server, and as SCO UNIX is based on an ancient version of The UNIX spec it just couldn't cope
If SCO needed a multithreaded web server, why would they use Apache 1.3.14?
Simply adding 2k as another option to the "if" test and recompiling/rebooting allowed the CD to mount.
why not just remove the if test? Apparently the code could work with arbitrary block sizes, so why hardcode 1K, 2K, and 4K? You could ADD functionality by REMOVING code.
American Dental Association.
One might argue that computer viruses that destroy their host are reducing their chances of reproducing. Human viruses like HIV/AIDS keep their hosts alive for years and are very adept at spreading themselves.
In Poland, your mother flouridates the water. In Soviet America, the water flouridates YOU!
but what about "boxen"? or should that be "boxii"?
Like you said, I wish RH would pay more attention to Fitt's Law. In RH9's Bluecurve some windows (like the terminal) do not go all the way to the right-hand side of the screen. I'll often slam my mouse to the right, trying to hit the scrollbar or window buttons, only to have my mouse click "land on" the desktop or an app beneath my terminal window.
Those "new" Redhat screenshots don't look any different than Bluecurve in Redhat 8 and 9. What is actually new??
but I do find the word "god" offensive..
I am looking forward to the next generation of US politicians, 20-30 years from now. With the old guard of religious fundamentalist politicians and judges retiring, I hope more tolerate Generation X and Y politicians will flush out these religious zealots and their racial, sexual, and religious prejudices.
Just look at those SCARY-ASS fundamentalists in the Alabama courthouse. I am scared when I realize our ONLY line of defense is a document written over 200 years ago: the US Constitution. Iraq is writing their new constitution now. Imagine if the US Constitution were written today by today's politicians. Free speech? Separation of church and state? Right to bear arms? yeah, right...
What would be the English translations of "toire" and "otearai"? As an English speaker, I don't really have an idea just HOW much "ruder" one is over the other.
Why are people so hyper-senstive to saying the word "nigger", even when discussing the word itself? Even now, I just quoted the word so readers would know I was referring to the WORD and not anything else..
Did that happen in Superman 3 or something?
What surprises me is that these worms or viruses are not more than nuisances. It would be so easy for the authors to add a lil' code to "format c:" after propagating itself. That would do more damage and cover its tracks.
no, CYA is more important to gub'mint officials than finding the flaws.