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the pulsing, throbbing beveled N in the original Navigator.
There's a movie which actually features this version of Netscape. It's meant to look all up-to-date and modern, and it probably did for about 3 months, but now of course it looks ridiculously dated. I don't know why they did it, as the N was always announced as temporary.
Unfortunately I can't remember which movie it was, although I've a vague feeling that it was a well-known movie in the action- or spy-type genre. Can anyone help me?
One problem I have with CVS with text documents is that even when one only changes one tiny thing, often the whole paragraph gets reformatted. Then when you look at a "cvs diff", it's difficult to spot the real change.
With formats like HTML and TeX where the position of newlines within a paragraph isn't significant, one can avoid this, but only by being very disciplined about not reformatting a paragraph with short lines. And all the writers have to do this. Myself, my fingers keep itching to press M-q.
With text/plain, one presumably has to do the same, and then format the paragraphs only when ready for document release, and as a separate cvs commit.
I love this word "coopetition". (Well, I don't know it's new, but I've never seen it before). In one word, it describes exactly why and how the open source model can work.
I assume it's because it's a dual-boot machine. (Although in that case, I don't know why it's not an option to get Linux to mount the Windows partition instead).
You didn't say which country you were in. In the UK, for example, most people get free web hosting. (This is one of the side-benefits of metered rather than fixed-rate charging). There are sites you can then use to alias your domain name to what your ISP gave you.
This is a good start, but it really needs other Unices than the free ones to be included. Have you tried compiling a C program under SunOS 4 recently? Or HP-UX 9? These are where the real compatibility issues are revealed, IME.
(Of course, compiling under Windows/Mac/BeOS/etc. too would be even better, for programs which are intended to be used there.)
I'd have thought people would welcome any change in Network Solutions. Judging by almost any previous story on them, it can only improve them, can't it?
The compression world has many patents, notably for Lempel-Ziv compression as used in GIF. What is your view on companies patenting non-obvious algorithms for such processes as data compression?
Maybe we should take a peek at the first few stories to see how things have changed?
Is there any way to do this? "Older Stuff" only seems to go back to October '99. I suppose the oldest stories are archived somewhere? Are they publicly viewable?
Do you keep statistics on the speed of growth? I'd be really interested to see the number of stories posted in each month; but also the number of comments, submissions, page views... in each month.
Vaccination was invented by the Englishman Edward Jenner, not by Louis Pasteur.
He noticed that milkmaids who had contracted cowpox were immune to smallpox, and so he vaccinated people with cowpox. (The cowpox virus is now known as vaccinia).
Pasteur did much more important work overall. He showed that micro-organisms could infect a previously sterile medium, thus disproving the spontaneous creation theory in favour of the germ theory. He invented Pasteurisation, of course. He did work on vaccination, and I think he was the first to explain why vaccination worked. But he wasn't the first to vaccinate people.
I am currently travelling around the UK and there are plenty of internet cafes. Any decent sized town has them
Right, we (Cambridge) have at least 5 in a town of ~120,000.
One tip about cybercafes: there are five enormous cybercafes in London (and more to come around the UK and Europe, apparently) which are not only open 24 hours but which, last time I checked, were free between (I think) midnight and 10am, and only £1/hour all day. http://www.easyeverything.com/
Probably. The chances are your laptop has a transformer that automatically copes with the power supply of any country you plug it into (but check this). Then all you need to do is change your US plug into a UK one. You can do this with a kit from Radio Shack that doesn't even cost $20, if I remember rightly from when I was last in there. You're looking for a setup with lots of strange 'grey' bits. You may need a grounding adaptor, depending on what you buy.
My laptop, which I bought in the US, just takes an ordinary cassette player lead. So no adapter necessary, just buy a new lead and plug it into the transformer.
> What size area do ISPs cover in the country?
Most ISPs in the UK have one number throughout the entire country, but still charge you local rates instead of national rates. These numbers typically begin with '0345'.
0645 and 0845 are also possibilities.
NB local rate is 1.5p/minute 6pm-8am and 1p/minute weekends from a domestic phone.
Obviously having a large amount of documentation in one place is excellent, and essential for wider take-up of Linux.
However, I don't find their site design user-friendly. The front page particularly is not aimed at people new to the site. We have nearly the whole page taken up with news and recent updates. The links you really want -- guides, FAQs, HOWTOs -- are stuck in the top-left hand corner.
Also, where are the security bulletins? I would have thought that was an essential part of a site like this. I can't even find them under "links". Did I just miss them?
Don't get me wrong, I shall be bookmarking this site and using it. But I don't think it's really ready for a general audience.
When the internet has enough bandwidth and redundancy to conceal the effects of net congestion it will be time to look at internet voting for serious elections. Until then all its suited for is informal polls.
Like, was your shirt inspected by #16, #7 or your mom, you mean?
Americans, who are used to electronic voting, will probably think I'm mad here, and that I am about to destroy all my credibility as a geek. But I don't like voting by computers at all, let alone over the internet.
In the UK, we vote by placing crosses on pieces of paper. It may be old-fashioned (and our government are talking about changing it) but I think it has one enormous advantage: it's totally visible. As the count is made, representatives from all the political parties are present. They can see what's going on with their own eyes, verify it, and question it if necessary.
I regard this transparency as a basic democratic safeguard. One doesn't need to trust that the technology is working properly. The accuracy of the result is not in doubt (if it's close, it's recounted, several times if necessary).
(Besides, election night is much more fun as the results come in one-by-one through the small hours of the morning!)
Red Hat 6.1 documentation tells you that if you want to dual-boot an NT system, you have to boot from floppy!
I don't know what RedHat think, but you can perfectly easily use the NT boot loader. See the Linux+NT-Loader mini-HOWTO. (From your post, I think maybe you knew that, but others might not.)
We all like to have a gripe about Slashdot when our articles are rejected or our posts are unfairly moderated down. But congratulations are in order this time for getting such a high-profile interviewee.
I personally think that the interview section is one of the real highlights of slashdot. Where else can one get to question such leading players as Steve Wozniak, or the Queen's webmaster, for example? Or Cowpland?
How much difference (if any) does it make being a Canadian-based company competing against mostly US-based companies? Does it make a big difference to you that the Canadian dollar is relatively low, or that Canadian taxes are relatively high, for example?
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Unfortunately I can't remember which movie it was, although I've a vague feeling that it was a well-known movie in the action- or spy-type genre. Can anyone help me?
One problem I have with CVS with text documents is that even when one only changes one tiny thing, often the whole paragraph gets reformatted. Then when you look at a "cvs diff", it's difficult to spot the real change.
With formats like HTML and TeX where the position of newlines within a paragraph isn't significant, one can avoid this, but only by being very disciplined about not reformatting a paragraph with short lines. And all the writers have to do this. Myself, my fingers keep itching to press M-q.
With text/plain, one presumably has to do the same, and then format the paragraphs only when ready for document release, and as a separate cvs commit.
I guess there's no such thing as a free launch.
I love this word "coopetition". (Well, I don't know it's new, but I've never seen it before). In one word, it describes exactly why and how the open source model can work.
I assume it's because it's a dual-boot machine. (Although in that case, I don't know why it's not an option to get Linux to mount the Windows partition instead).
This is true in the 'developed' world too.
I know the Christmas Island registry gives free domain names to nationals. (Of course, it's still first-come first-served for choosing names).
You didn't say which country you were in. In the UK, for example, most people get free web hosting.
(This is one of the side-benefits of metered rather than fixed-rate charging). There are sites you can then use to alias your domain name to what your ISP gave you.
Is anyone here actually using FreeMWare/plex86? How well does it work at the moment?
This is a good start, but it really needs other Unices than the free ones to be included. Have you tried compiling a C program under SunOS 4 recently? Or HP-UX 9? These are where the real compatibility issues are revealed, IME.
(Of course, compiling under Windows/Mac/BeOS/etc. too would be even better, for programs which are intended to be used there.)
I'd have thought people would welcome any change in Network Solutions. Judging by almost any previous story on them, it can only improve them, can't it?
The compression world has many patents, notably for Lempel-Ziv compression as used in GIF. What is your view on companies patenting non-obvious algorithms for such processes as data compression?
Congratulations, of course.
Do you keep statistics on the speed of growth? I'd be really interested to see the number of stories posted in each month; but also the number of comments, submissions, page views... in each month.
Vaccination was invented by the Englishman Edward Jenner, not by Louis Pasteur.
He noticed that milkmaids who had contracted cowpox were immune to smallpox, and so he vaccinated people with cowpox. (The cowpox virus is now known as vaccinia).
Pasteur did much more important work overall. He showed that micro-organisms could infect a previously sterile medium, thus disproving the spontaneous creation theory in favour of the germ theory. He invented Pasteurisation, of course. He did work on vaccination, and I think he was the first to explain why vaccination worked. But he wasn't the first to vaccinate people.
One tip about cybercafes: there are five enormous cybercafes in London (and more to come around the UK and Europe, apparently) which are not only open 24 hours but which, last time I checked, were free between (I think) midnight and 10am, and only £1/hour all day.
http://www.easyeverything.com/
NB local rate is 1.5p/minute 6pm-8am and 1p/minute weekends from a domestic phone.
I'm sad to say I don't quite agree.
Obviously having a large amount of documentation in one place is excellent, and essential for wider take-up of Linux.
However, I don't find their site design user-friendly. The front page particularly is not aimed at people new to the site. We have nearly the whole page taken up with news and recent updates. The links you really want -- guides, FAQs, HOWTOs -- are stuck in the top-left hand corner.
Also, where are the security bulletins? I would have thought that was an essential part of a site like this. I can't even find them under "links". Did I just miss them?
Don't get me wrong, I shall be bookmarking this site and using it. But I don't think it's really ready for a general audience.
In the UK, we vote by placing crosses on pieces of paper. It may be old-fashioned (and our government are talking about changing it) but I think it has one enormous advantage: it's totally visible. As the count is made, representatives from all the political parties are present. They can see what's going on with their own eyes, verify it, and question it if necessary.
I regard this transparency as a basic democratic safeguard. One doesn't need to trust that the technology is working properly. The accuracy of the result is not in doubt (if it's close, it's recounted, several times if necessary).
(Besides, election night is much more fun as the results come in one-by-one through the small hours of the morning!)
I personally think that the interview section is one of the real highlights of slashdot. Where else can one get to question such leading players as Steve Wozniak, or the Queen's webmaster, for example? Or Cowpland?
How much difference (if any) does it make being a Canadian-based company competing against mostly US-based companies? Does it make a big difference to you that the Canadian dollar is relatively low, or that Canadian taxes are relatively high, for example?