I remember someone saying, the airport security measures after 9/11 is like closing the barn door after the horses have fled, the hijackers tried their luck with the loose security system and got away with it, and they'd know better than to try hijacking planes again, instead they'll concentrate on other ways of slipping under our noses next time around. The shoe-bomber was the nice proof against this argument. Oh well, I guess we'll spend the rest of our lives living in fear now.
Too bad the US Government's response to it all is making it worse, killing terrorists will just make martyrs out of them, some say the response should have been respect of what they want (get out of places they see as holy), but wouldn't that look so lame and a sign of giving in to their attacks. To top it all off with yet another war (this time it's to find non-existant WMD and replace a torturer, with, uhm, what now) which leave civilians suffering, that sure won't please those who hate USA.
Fun, fun. I'm sure I'll be a dead old man (I'm in my mid-twenties) before "The war on Terror" ends.
Could this be a sign of where Apple stands in the stem-cell debate?
Personally I think Bush is an idiot, and it's know he twists science to support his moronic points of views, and no one else's. He probably believes in the creationists. Join the to fight to bring back USA's status as the leading nation in science, and vote against Bush!
JS and CSS files can be easily included, and for images, I think Mozilla has some sort of support for this. The only info I can find about it is here, where you basically have an IMG tag like this:
<IMG SRC="data:image/png;base64,[the image data in base64]">
So instead of a URL to the image, it has the image data directly in the IMG tag. Someone probably only has to write some JS code in Mozilla to join all the features together, the question if if JS can then pop-up the "Save As" dialog box, I think not?
Something tells me that the crew has better things to do then monitor the Wi-Fi network to make sure you aren't sharing it.
LOL, that would be some funny job, network admin for trans-continental flights. Where can I apply? You get to fly to exotic places and meet cute stewardesses.;-)
Couldn't the hook of the phone be used as an on/off switch? let's see, pick up the phone -- start playing, put down the phone -- stop playing. The player won't have to loop forever..
I've also seen demo stands in CD stores, which has a metal contact for the headphones; picking up the headphones cuts the circuit and turns the machine on.
What fucking eye-sore! Who designed them anyway? What are they, are they supposed to induce creativity or something? And who approved the building plans?
Was it Gates himself? He used to go to Harvard, maybe it's his trick of subtly saying "the dweebs go to this university."
LFS is pretty nice, you really know what's in all the systems, usually just the minimal barebones components, I think the really basic LFS system doesn't even have SSH. From there you can start installing all the packages you need, although you do have to
tar -xzf $PACKAGE_TAR_GZ;./configure; make all install;
for every single dependency to the package.
(Or am I spreading misinformation, last time I checked the LFS folks were thinking of creating a script that will do all of that for you.)
This is different to Knoppix which has everything and need about 2.5 GB of space. Some of the PCs might not even have that much.
LFS also lacks (afaik) a package manager, so it can be annoying if you play around; you end up not knowing what you've installed and what files you don't need.
But, Gnome, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla should be all the patrons need. Perhaps the staff can offer a CD-burning-service for the customers who need OpenOffice for use at home. I doubt it's in the budget for the library, so the best way to do it would be to ask the customers to bring their own CD-R's.
Anyway, Linux *might* be easier to fix than Windows. Users can never seem to find anything in a GUI environment, but tell them to type some commands and tell them what the system responded, and you get a better overview of what's happening.
But that's considering the problem is easy to find, IMO there are too many things that can break in Linux in a novice's hand, and once they break they might be hard to find unless you're on the system.
Or maybe, when the system is expected to be online, Red Hat can make a tool that will activate the "tech support" account (with the appropriate warning that will show everyime this command is run, so that the user won't get tricked into running this command by someone else). Further this tool should ask the user to set a password for that account, which the tech support guy can set/get during the telephone conversation -- or would it be possible to just use public key authentication, which RedHat must guard at all costs. In the end, the tech support has ssh access, he can connect to the system and see what's wrong (he'll have to be root, I guess?), and the user should be able to monitor what the tech is doing, and when the tech disconnects, the app disables the account and also the ssh-server if it doesn't run as default. Or perhaps it can run the ssh-server at a private port?
It would be an interesting app to develop, actually. So, who wants to do it?
How about throwing away those clicks that come from Indian IPs? Well I guess the advertising agency would then sue the people who's supposed to pay them money, and it will be fun.
The internet sucks now that the businesses and marketing types learnt about it, I wonder how many domain names out there which are just placeholders for an ad-serving page.
Sometimes the film leaks out of the production/distribution channels, over here there was a German movie once which came out on the net before the official release date, but without the special effects.
I wonder why people download cam-rips: how can they appreciate a film when its colors and sound are all wrong and its at a weird angle and parts of it are cropped.
What ticks me off is who the media always claim "films are being pirated and digital quality copies of them are available the day the movie is in theaters!", ok, the files are digital files, but they mix up the terms to make it sound like the films are with super "digital" quality. And worse, to show the viewers what these downloaded movies look like, they play Quicktime trailers!
Also, the street isn't really a PacMan "alley", when PacMan goes into an alley and there's a ghost on both sides of the alley, he's dead. How about in this version, is he allowed to outtrick them like by running across the street -- a ghost can't really cover the width of the street now can he.
I try to post semi-useful thing in mine, like "I got this error at work today, here is what I did, It drove me nuts", in hope that google will index it so other people don't have to go through the wild goose chase that I had to go through. But mostly, mine is journal-type stuff.
and I thought you meant people should post their computing tips here. But these tips would be hard to find if, as I said, Google doesn't index/. .
Ha! Of course both sides believe the other one is the fucking dumbass. Just like Osama and Dubya both say they fight with the help of God. Please read this article, or this one, with an open mind? Sure you say the writer is a liberal, but do you think he just made up his allegations out of thin fucking air?
Too bad the bible thumpers aren't just going to church on Sunday, the bitch and moan to their government about things that they believe to be wrong.. for example, teaching evolution, abortion rights and who the fuck knows what else.
Perhaps this site can say it better than I do. Have an open mind, not like me who dislikes religion-loving people instantly.
They can prevent their "citizens" from viewing "illegal" content by making it clear to them that who they are and what they do are being recorded.. and so the world takes one more step further from Utopia.
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Interesting notion with that re-election stuff.. a presidential candidate will probably be able to win if he promises to fight spam when he wins. The fight will have to be logical, of course, like the mandating of a fix to SMTP (and he'd have to have good foreign-relations skill to convince the rest of the world to fix SMTP).
All the messages Yahoo! users have marked as spam should go to this asshole. I wonder why Yahoo! lets him have an account anyway, kick his ass outta there!
On another point, the 2nd last paragraph of the article say,
Richter claims that he is strictly sending emails only to people who have signed up for his services on his website. "If someone does not want our emails, we can be easily identified and remove users from our list by request," he said.
so what form of request is sufficient? An email, a letter, a lawyer's letter, a subpoena? a letter attached to a brick?
Actually a lot of supercars get bought by super-rich oil sheiks of the Middle East, who are probably part of the Ruling King's family that they can get away with driving as crazy as they want. Then again, they take the cars out to the desert roads where there are no pedestrians to hit.
I think it must be fun, wouldn't mind having a go if I had the chance.
Speaking of RMS, only after about 2 minutes reading the comments do I realize that the tool is called deDRMS, and not deRMS.. I was wondering what sort of joke it was having a tool that would crack "RMS" protected content.
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Linus should do a "press release" with that title, writing a long winding article peppered with his one-liners.. please please Linus?
I remember someone saying, the airport security measures after 9/11 is like closing the barn door after the horses have fled, the hijackers tried their luck with the loose security system and got away with it, and they'd know better than to try hijacking planes again, instead they'll concentrate on other ways of slipping under our noses next time around. The shoe-bomber was the nice proof against this argument. Oh well, I guess we'll spend the rest of our lives living in fear now.
Too bad the US Government's response to it all is making it worse, killing terrorists will just make martyrs out of them, some say the response should have been respect of what they want (get out of places they see as holy), but wouldn't that look so lame and a sign of giving in to their attacks. To top it all off with yet another war (this time it's to find non-existant WMD and replace a torturer, with, uhm, what now) which leave civilians suffering, that sure won't please those who hate USA.
Fun, fun. I'm sure I'll be a dead old man (I'm in my mid-twenties) before "The war on Terror" ends.
Could this be a sign of where Apple stands in the stem-cell debate?
Personally I think Bush is an idiot, and it's know he twists science to support his moronic points of views, and no one else's. He probably believes in the creationists. Join the to fight to bring back USA's status as the leading nation in science, and vote against Bush!
Someone probably only has to write some JS code in Mozilla to join all the features together, the question if if JS can then pop-up the "Save As" dialog box, I think not?
LOL, that would be some funny job, network admin for trans-continental flights. Where can I apply? You get to fly to exotic places and meet cute stewardesses.
Couldn't the hook of the phone be used as an on/off switch? let's see, pick up the phone -- start playing, put down the phone -- stop playing. The player won't have to loop forever..
I've also seen demo stands in CD stores, which has a metal contact for the headphones; picking up the headphones cuts the circuit and turns the machine on.
I somehow doubt the cd player can withstand playing non-stop for so long.. I think the motor would break after a short while..
What fucking eye-sore! Who designed them anyway? What are they, are they supposed to induce creativity or something? And who approved the building plans?
Was it Gates himself? He used to go to Harvard, maybe it's his trick of subtly saying "the dweebs go to this university."
(Or am I spreading misinformation, last time I checked the LFS folks were thinking of creating a script that will do all of that for you.)
This is different to Knoppix which has everything and need about 2.5 GB of space. Some of the PCs might not even have that much.
LFS also lacks (afaik) a package manager, so it can be annoying if you play around; you end up not knowing what you've installed and what files you don't need.
But, Gnome, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla should be all the patrons need. Perhaps the staff can offer a CD-burning-service for the customers who need OpenOffice for use at home. I doubt it's in the budget for the library, so the best way to do it would be to ask the customers to bring their own CD-R's.
Anyway, Linux *might* be easier to fix than Windows. Users can never seem to find anything in a GUI environment, but tell them to type some commands and tell them what the system responded, and you get a better overview of what's happening.
But that's considering the problem is easy to find, IMO there are too many things that can break in Linux in a novice's hand, and once they break they might be hard to find unless you're on the system.
Or maybe, when the system is expected to be online, Red Hat can make a tool that will activate the "tech support" account (with the appropriate warning that will show everyime this command is run, so that the user won't get tricked into running this command by someone else). Further this tool should ask the user to set a password for that account, which the tech support guy can set/get during the telephone conversation -- or would it be possible to just use public key authentication, which RedHat must guard at all costs. In the end, the tech support has ssh access, he can connect to the system and see what's wrong (he'll have to be root, I guess?), and the user should be able to monitor what the tech is doing, and when the tech disconnects, the app disables the account and also the ssh-server if it doesn't run as default. Or perhaps it can run the ssh-server at a private port?
It would be an interesting app to develop, actually. So, who wants to do it?
wow, remove the _mini and you get a bigger, nicer picture.
How about throwing away those clicks that come from Indian IPs? Well I guess the advertising agency would then sue the people who's supposed to pay them money, and it will be fun.
The internet sucks now that the businesses and marketing types learnt about it, I wonder how many domain names out there which are just placeholders for an ad-serving page.
Sometimes the film leaks out of the production/distribution channels, over here there was a German movie once which came out on the net before the official release date, but without the special effects.
I wonder why people download cam-rips: how can they appreciate a film when its colors and sound are all wrong and its at a weird angle and parts of it are cropped.
What ticks me off is who the media always claim "films are being pirated and digital quality copies of them are available the day the movie is in theaters!", ok, the files are digital files, but they mix up the terms to make it sound like the films are with super "digital" quality. And worse, to show the viewers what these downloaded movies look like, they play Quicktime trailers!
Too many idiots out there...
Also, the street isn't really a PacMan "alley", when PacMan goes into an alley and there's a ghost on both sides of the alley, he's dead. How about in this version, is he allowed to outtrick them like by running across the street -- a ghost can't really cover the width of the street now can he.
and I thought you meant people should post their computing tips here. But these tips would be hard to find if, as I said, Google doesn't index
Ha! Of course both sides believe the other one is the fucking dumbass. Just like Osama and Dubya both say they fight with the help of God. Please read this article, or this one, with an open mind? Sure you say the writer is a liberal, but do you think he just made up his allegations out of thin fucking air?
They'll probably get their friends in the Federal Government involved in it, wouldn't that be fun to watch.
And in the end Ahnold fights and saves the USA by kicking all the other Republicans' Butt in Congress.
Too bad the bible thumpers aren't just going to church on Sunday, the bitch and moan to their government about things that they believe to be wrong.. for example, teaching evolution, abortion rights and who the fuck knows what else.
Perhaps this site can say it better than I do. Have an open mind, not like me who dislikes religion-loving people instantly.
They can prevent their "citizens" from viewing "illegal" content by making it clear to them that who they are and what they do are being recorded.. and so the world takes one more step further from Utopia.
Interesting notion with that re-election stuff.. a presidential candidate will probably be able to win if he promises to fight spam when he wins. The fight will have to be logical, of course, like the mandating of a fix to SMTP (and he'd have to have good foreign-relations skill to convince the rest of the world to fix SMTP).
On another point, the 2nd last paragraph of the article say,
so what form of request is sufficient? An email, a letter, a lawyer's letter, a subpoena? a letter attached to a brick?
Unfortunately Slashdot doesn't allow bots to surf the site, so the info maybe there, but it's hard to find considering it's not in Google.
Well, all computers have limited computing power. Except perhaps quantum computers?
Actually a lot of supercars get bought by super-rich oil sheiks of the Middle East, who are probably part of the Ruling King's family that they can get away with driving as crazy as they want. Then again, they take the cars out to the desert roads where there are no pedestrians to hit.
I think it must be fun, wouldn't mind having a go if I had the chance.
Speaking of RMS, only after about 2 minutes reading the comments do I realize that the tool is called deDRMS, and not deRMS.. I was wondering what sort of joke it was having a tool that would crack "RMS" protected content.