It could always be possible to alias the netscape command to be transparently invoked as another user by placing the following in one's ~/.bashrc: alias nsnav = "su - dummy -c nsnav"
alias nsmail = netscape
launch the mail as usual or with the nsmail command and if you want to surf (see here why you would like to), just launch navigator with the nsnav command.
Of course, you'd better use Konqueror or W3-Emacs but this was my 0.01$ bit.
--
I only intended to give my advice on Switzerland as one of the numerous country where I have leaved.
Now, about your exellent link:
What ?
The cantonal government said police reinforcements would be
drafted in from all Swiss cantons and neighbouring Liechtenstein
for "the biggest challenge" faced by Graubünden police since the
force was founded in 1804.
To which exremity ?
Local authorities said in a statement released on Wednesday that it
would not be possible to seal off Davos.
Instead, attempts will be made to speak to demonstrators who have
threatened to launch protests during the five-day summit, which
brings together leading political and business leaders from around
the world.
Why ?
The cantonal government has already rejected permission for a
demonstration by anti-globalisation protestors during the summit.
Why (2) ?
Unauthorised protests turned violent last year when President
Clinton visited the summit. The demonstrators were, however,
prevented from reaching the congress centre where the summit is
held.
The local authorities said the increased police presence was justified
by the violent demonstrations during the summit last year, as well as
disruption at other international economic meetings over the past
year.
How much ?
The federal government will pay 80 per cent of the policing costs.
Conclusion ?
Sorry, this sound like a good way to protect Davos'inhabitants quietness. They even say who'll pay for this and why they prefer avoiding this as they don't want a similar anterior event to occur again.
I say "Bravo!"
Of course, you have to be an IT specialist and to speak Japanese is a definite plus but this is the case of my older brother who has been living in Tokyo for years.
He loves this place as much as I love Switzerland. --
I recently moved in Bern and I'd give anything to stay.
Swiss are friendly, they care for you and they are the best educated people I've ever met.
The tax system is comfortable and because of their neutrality, you can be sure no political issue will make people threaten you because of your ideas.
BTW, if you love fresh air and innovant people, this is definitely a good choice provided you accept the rules.
As a French, I however wouldn't fight for the French but rather for the Swiss which peaceful spirit makes life here a Paradise.
It's also quite a tempered country where you won't get a cold, despite some rumours spread by the collegues I had in Duesseldorf (Germany) where the weather might have been the most horrible I subished.
So, 2 thumbs up for the Swiss:-) --
Yesterday evening and this morning (MET/GMT+1) I filled Napster form in order to get my GPL'd music available for free to the whole Napster Community.
I also use it as a test in order to know whether I can trust them for a more ambitious project.
After clicking the submit button, I got a form to print, to fill and sign and to fax them in order to activate my account.
I tried many times to fax it but their device never answered.
How surprising, my entry was added.
I believe I could have filled the HTML form with Metallica's name and Lars Ulrich as contact.
Of course, I could have easily been caught "la main dans le sac" but there's still a problem, here. --
> Do we want a data cloud full of the digital
> pictures millions of people couldn't bring
> themselves to delete?
O course we do !
Why ?
Because I prefer keeping trace of everything than just forbiding more and more things to people (e.g. hard disc encryption, CSS, etc.).
I like the idea of a central server to which are connected a bunch of network computers. The difference with the idea that was once made popular by Larry Ellison ?
It is that the central supercomputer dealt with will be distributed and thus virtual.
It will become something like a reticular subconscience in which people will have to dig very hard (because it'll have to be quite secured so that each user's privacy is respected).
And, as we are also dealing with A.I., it might become possible that some unknown problems appear that will require some e-psychanalysis. --
60 billions bucks is not that much. After all, some oil company in Siberia generates so much money quite quickly and if this project is serious, I would not be suprised to hear about some Siberian Oil export.
BTW, I am a bit afraid of the human issues, especially when we know about what happened to Tchernobyl or the Koursk craft.
Maybe they'll have to prepair a rock-solid hi-tech project so that they can safely proceed ? --
Remember ?
They happened to imagine such devices in the Matrix.
Anyway I am not sure this would be that painless as electromagnetism as generated by a cellular phone is supposed to be harmful so, why wouldn't these weapons harm people too ?
Who says the truth here : the ones who say cellular phones are harmless or the ones who claim it is dangerous ?
PS: Happy New Year, pals ! --
How will they manage to prevent a single raid-array disc to be copied ?
How will they ensure the raw/dev/hdxx (or sdxx) volume is not rot13-uuencoded / rot13/uudecoded on the fly ?
And btw, doing this will have an ethic impact : what about fellows who want to backup their ext2fs or reiserfs volumes ?
Does this mean we will have to pay for specific backup software with NSA backdoors (who said "MS" ?) ?
I believe there's something rotten... --
This the actual point I wanted to inronize:
The French media (I don't know about the others) usually seem to be quite confident until it becomes *damn* serious and then they will tell a little more provided the audience won't panick.
the problem is that they are not smart enough to explain calmly how serious the problem is in a way that won't lose the audience's attention.
I remember the excellent film outbreak with Dustin Hoffmann and I guess such cases might happen on a daily basis.
--
This is quite a funny thing to learn that the disease that was first announced as so frightening by French media and then supposed to have disappeared can now be cured.
BTW, you'll also love to browse a bit further on this excellent web site.
Two thumbs up for the link, Slashdot:-) --
Why are there no platform games ???
Where are "Manic Miner", "Commander Keen 4", "Prince Of Persia", "Lemmings", "Flashback" ? Also, what about all time favorites like "Bratacas, "Breakout",, "Asteroids", "Space Invaders" , "Pac Man"? Come on, let an older journalist write such articles ! --
Stop this.
Don't just catalogize any Christians because you had some issues with some of them.
They are honest as you have the choice to go or not with them and you know it before signing at the bottom of the contract.
SO, it is totally normal a Priest gives you his advice about pr0n websites.
I agree with them as long as they don't change the rules every day. --
So, yes.
Actually, I don't plan to settle there and I also expect some people who actually used to to tell about their actual experience with them. I'd especially want to know if they filter more or less stuff as the Swiss Post where I work. (It could'nt actually be stricter;-) --
Seems to be an eternal issue with Intel : people claim their newest CPU is crap, buy it anyway and after several months just say to anybody they meet it is the best ever.
I personnally believe the P4 might have some design flaws but it also might be interesting in specific applications.
I especially think that Intel has not (co-)developped Xscale for nuts and this is from where the actual future might come. --
French Editor ACBM has issued a long serie of programming articles about VCS programming in the magazine Les Puces Informatiques.
It seems its programming is quite easy and you can quickly enough get good results such as your own version of Space Invaders that you'll run on top of an emulator.
So the answer is do-it-yourself. --
> My wish is that power management under Linux
> would be fully supported.
> Getting four hours battery life under Windows
> and two hours under Linux is disappointing.
I use a Gericom Overdose 2 laptop and I had 3 hours with Linux, BeOS 4, Win2k and Win98.
I therefore have to say I had a wonderful surprise when I switched between kernel 2.2.17 to 2.2.18.
This is more a matter of stability (no more crash during blanking) than of durability.
--
I recently heard on the radio that Warner are about (if they had not already done it) to implement a test in their DVD movies :
If the player is region-free, then the film will "refuse" to be played.
IMHO this is illegal and will force them to reimburse most of the people I know who bought their player before 1999/12/31st.
Maybe some "clever" law from Down-under has just made a step further.
BTW, "they" justify DVD-zoning by talking about the non-simultaneous movie availability around
the world.
So : Why are "The Ten Commandments" only available in Zone 1 and not in Zone 0 ???
Is it about to be broadcasted in some hidden part of the globe (or on Mir) ?
Famous French philosopher Fontenelle was about to die before he was 50...
His doctor told him that unless he would follow a damn'-strict diet he wouldn't be 50.
Fontenelle accepoted this diet and died almost 50 years later. --
Did they mean reading aloud their copyrighted copyright or Lewis writings ?
In the former case, they should have added "Don't Salshdot";-)
BTW, let's ask the most important question : is there a Linux port to these devices otherwise they might never be decently used ? --
I agree with the fact that gaming strenghtens some problem solving abilities. I also agree that the virtual universes which are simulated in videogames can stimulate human spatial perception.
However, the same has also been said years ago about the television and we yet have to agree on a gamer : do you mean any sofa potato that'll just undergo a digital experience or some more active fellow that'll keep puzzle himself trying to overtake the game possibilities ?
It is a matter of effort, whatever we speak about : gaming, watching tv or even listening to music which will (without too much brain passivity) respectively bring their addicts reflexes, culture or an accute sense of observation. --
Is that just some subtile advertising for Intel or did they forget to benchmark it alongside some Athlon, Alpha, bi- or quadri CPUs boards, etc ?
Well all that this article reads is that the newest P4 ASUS motherboard is quicker than the previous...
Well, the opposite would seriously amaze me. --
> Original minitel was 300/1200 bauds.
Not even : it was 75/1200 bauds.
And so ?
With a mecanichal keyboard, how would wou type more than 9 8-bit characters per second in order to explode this debit ?
I believe this was a wise choice that helped the minitel being cheaper to build. --
Slashdot Mirror
It could always be possible to alias the netscape command to be transparently invoked as another user by placing the following in one's ~/.bashrc :
alias nsnav = "su - dummy -c nsnav"
alias nsmail = netscape
launch the mail as usual or with the nsmail command and if you want to surf (see here why you would like to), just launch navigator with the nsnav command.
Of course, you'd better use Konqueror or W3-Emacs but this was my 0.01$ bit.
--
- What ?
- To which exremity ?
- Why ?
- Why (2) ?
- How much ?
- Conclusion ?
About your famous quote, let's add the following:The cantonal government said police reinforcements would be drafted in from all Swiss cantons and neighbouring Liechtenstein for "the biggest challenge" faced by Graubünden police since the force was founded in 1804.
Local authorities said in a statement released on Wednesday that it would not be possible to seal off Davos.
Instead, attempts will be made to speak to demonstrators who have threatened to launch protests during the five-day summit, which brings together leading political and business leaders from around the world.
The cantonal government has already rejected permission for a demonstration by anti-globalisation protestors during the summit.
Unauthorised protests turned violent last year when President Clinton visited the summit. The demonstrators were, however, prevented from reaching the congress centre where the summit is held.
The local authorities said the increased police presence was justified by the violent demonstrations during the summit last year, as well as disruption at other international economic meetings over the past year.
The federal government will pay 80 per cent of the policing costs.
Sorry, this sound like a good way to protect Davos'inhabitants quietness. They even say who'll pay for this and why they prefer avoiding this as they don't want a similar anterior event to occur again.
I say "Bravo!"
- Alexandre Julliard directs the Wine Project
- Velcro ("Hook-and-loop fastener", 1948, G. de Mestral)
- High-temperature super-conductors (1986, J. Georg Bednorz - German and Karl A. Muller - Swiss )
- Euler
- Bernouilli
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Paracelsus
- Horace Benedict de Saussure
- Le Corbusier
- Henri Dunant, founder of the Red Cross
- Carl Gustav Jung
etc.--
Of course, you have to be an IT specialist and to speak Japanese is a definite plus but this is the case of my older brother who has been living in Tokyo for years. He loves this place as much as I love Switzerland.
--
I recently moved in Bern and I'd give anything to stay. :-)
Swiss are friendly, they care for you and they are the best educated people I've ever met.
The tax system is comfortable and because of their neutrality, you can be sure no political issue will make people threaten you because of your ideas.
BTW, if you love fresh air and innovant people, this is definitely a good choice provided you accept the rules.
As a French, I however wouldn't fight for the French but rather for the Swiss which peaceful spirit makes life here a Paradise.
It's also quite a tempered country where you won't get a cold, despite some rumours spread by the collegues I had in Duesseldorf (Germany) where the weather might have been the most horrible I subished.
So, 2 thumbs up for the Swiss
--
Yesterday evening and this morning (MET/GMT+1) I filled Napster form in order to get my GPL'd music available for free to the whole Napster Community.
I also use it as a test in order to know whether I can trust them for a more ambitious project.
After clicking the submit button, I got a form to print, to fill and sign and to fax them in order to activate my account.
I tried many times to fax it but their device never answered.
How surprising, my entry was added.
I believe I could have filled the HTML form with Metallica's name and Lars Ulrich as contact.
Of course, I could have easily been caught "la main dans le sac" but there's still a problem, here.
--
> Do we want a data cloud full of the digital
> pictures millions of people couldn't bring
> themselves to delete?
O course we do !
Why ?
Because I prefer keeping trace of everything than just forbiding more and more things to people (e.g. hard disc encryption, CSS, etc.).
I like the idea of a central server to which are connected a bunch of network computers. The difference with the idea that was once made popular by Larry Ellison ?
It is that the central supercomputer dealt with will be distributed and thus virtual.
It will become something like a reticular subconscience in which people will have to dig very hard (because it'll have to be quite secured so that each user's privacy is respected).
And, as we are also dealing with A.I., it might become possible that some unknown problems appear that will require some e-psychanalysis.
--
60 billions bucks is not that much. After all, some oil company in Siberia generates so much money quite quickly and if this project is serious, I would not be suprised to hear about some Siberian Oil export.
BTW, I am a bit afraid of the human issues, especially when we know about what happened to Tchernobyl or the Koursk craft.
Maybe they'll have to prepair a rock-solid hi-tech project so that they can safely proceed ?
--
Remember ?
They happened to imagine such devices in the Matrix.
Anyway I am not sure this would be that painless as electromagnetism as generated by a cellular phone is supposed to be harmful so, why wouldn't these weapons harm people too ?
Who says the truth here : the ones who say cellular phones are harmless or the ones who claim it is dangerous ?
PS: Happy New Year, pals !
--
How will they manage to prevent a single raid-array disc to be copied ? /dev/hdxx (or sdxx) volume is not rot13-uuencoded / rot13/uudecoded on the fly ?
How will they ensure the raw
And btw, doing this will have an ethic impact : what about fellows who want to backup their ext2fs or reiserfs volumes ?
Does this mean we will have to pay for specific backup software with NSA backdoors (who said "MS" ?) ?
I believe there's something rotten...
--
This the actual point I wanted to inronize :
The French media (I don't know about the others) usually seem to be quite confident until it becomes *damn* serious and then they will tell a little more provided the audience won't panick. the problem is that they are not smart enough to explain calmly how serious the problem is in a way that won't lose the audience's attention.
I remember the excellent film outbreak with Dustin Hoffmann and I guess such cases might happen on a daily basis.
--
This is quite a funny thing to learn that the disease that was first announced as so frightening by French media and then supposed to have disappeared can now be cured. :-)
BTW, you'll also love to browse a bit further on this excellent web site.
Two thumbs up for the link, Slashdot
--
Why are there no platform games ???
Where are "Manic Miner", "Commander Keen 4", "Prince Of Persia", "Lemmings", "Flashback" ? Also, what about all time favorites like "Bratacas, "Breakout",, "Asteroids", "Space Invaders" , "Pac Man"?
Come on, let an older journalist write such articles !
--
Stop this.
Don't just catalogize any Christians because you had some issues with some of them.
They are honest as you have the choice to go or not with them and you know it before signing at the bottom of the contract.
SO, it is totally normal a Priest gives you his advice about pr0n websites.
I agree with them as long as they don't change the rules every day.
--
- it is big (they say "biggest")
- it is relatively cheap (I am not sure you can afford to be expensive in Philippines)
- it filters out mass-oriented website (pr0n, etc.) so that you know you might usually have enough bandwidth to nerd around.
- you can (hopefully) get here from there.
So, yes.Actually, I don't plan to settle there and I also expect some people who actually used to to tell about their actual experience with them. I'd especially want to know if they filter more or less stuff as the Swiss Post where I work. (It could'nt actually be stricter
--
Seems to be an eternal issue with Intel : people claim their newest CPU is crap, buy it anyway and after several months just say to anybody they meet it is the best ever. I personnally believe the P4 might have some design flaws but it also might be interesting in specific applications. I especially think that Intel has not (co-)developped Xscale for nuts and this is from where the actual future might come.
--
French Editor ACBM has issued a long serie of programming articles about VCS programming in the magazine Les Puces Informatiques.
It seems its programming is quite easy and you can quickly enough get good results such as your own version of Space Invaders that you'll run on top of an emulator.
So the answer is do-it-yourself.
--
> My wish is that power management under Linux
> would be fully supported.
> Getting four hours battery life under Windows
> and two hours under Linux is disappointing.
I use a Gericom Overdose 2 laptop and I had 3 hours with Linux, BeOS 4, Win2k and Win98.
I therefore have to say I had a wonderful surprise when I switched between kernel 2.2.17 to 2.2.18.
This is more a matter of stability (no more crash during blanking) than of durability.
--
I recently heard on the radio that Warner are about (if they had not already done it) to implement a test in their DVD movies : If the player is region-free, then the film will "refuse" to be played.
IMHO this is illegal and will force them to reimburse most of the people I know who bought their player before 1999/12/31st.
Maybe some "clever" law from Down-under has just made a step further.
BTW, "they" justify DVD-zoning by talking about the non-simultaneous movie availability around the world.
So : Why are "The Ten Commandments" only available in Zone 1 and not in Zone 0 ???
Is it about to be broadcasted in some hidden part of the globe (or on Mir) ?
--
Look at the results per CPU/OS... ;-)
5th entry
--
Famous French philosopher Fontenelle was about to die before he was 50...
His doctor told him that unless he would follow a damn'-strict diet he wouldn't be 50.
Fontenelle accepoted this diet and died almost 50 years later.
--
Did they mean reading aloud their copyrighted copyright or Lewis writings ? ;-)
In the former case, they should have added "Don't Salshdot"
BTW, let's ask the most important question : is there a Linux port to these devices otherwise they might never be decently used ?
--
one can't even use its "pages" to wipe his ass ;-)
--
I agree with the fact that gaming strenghtens some problem solving abilities. I also agree that the virtual universes which are simulated in videogames can stimulate human spatial perception.
However, the same has also been said years ago about the television and we yet have to agree on a gamer : do you mean any sofa potato that'll just undergo a digital experience or some more active fellow that'll keep puzzle himself trying to overtake the game possibilities ?
It is a matter of effort, whatever we speak about : gaming, watching tv or even listening to music which will (without too much brain passivity) respectively bring their addicts reflexes, culture or an accute sense of observation.
--
Is that just some subtile advertising for Intel or did they forget to benchmark it alongside some Athlon, Alpha, bi- or quadri CPUs boards, etc ?
Well all that this article reads is that the newest P4 ASUS motherboard is quicker than the previous...
Well, the opposite would seriously amaze me.
--
> Original minitel was 300/1200 bauds.
Not even : it was 75/1200 bauds.
And so ?
With a mecanichal keyboard, how would wou type more than 9 8-bit characters per second in order to explode this debit ?
I believe this was a wise choice that helped the minitel being cheaper to build.
--