JenniCam isn't closing, it's just changing name to reflect the fact that Jenni is getting ripe. Here are the official domain names she'll use in the future: - PreggyCam.org - MommyCam.org - MenopausyCam.org - NannyCam.org - CoffinCam.org
only 75% of which are free (as in speech), and 95% of those 75% being crap. Which leaves you only with a handful of really promising open-source games, and 2 or 3 really good original ones (that excludes Doom, Heretic, Duke3D, Quake and other previously-commercial-but-look-how-nice-we-are-we- released -the-source-code-to-you-guys kind of games).
UnitedLinux to date seems to have had very little impact on the Linux user community - due to SCO's participation and the lack of unilateral support by Linux distribution vendors, most notably Red Hat.
Yes, having SCO and RedHat as organizations supporting your Linux project is a bit of a handicap...
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password: ********
(hint: it begins with a p and ends with a d)
Hmmm...
"powdered" ? "predated" ?
No, dunno, I give up...
Maybe no security at all
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For example, back when I was going to the University and was living in a slummy student complex where everything that could be stolen was, I used to have a shitty car, and I used to leave my car doors unlocked at night. My car wasn't a good candidate for theft, but when it *was* stolen (it happened twice), it was for joyrides and at least the robbers didn't burst the locks.
So I guess, the software equivalent of that would be to not leave expensive data that could interest people on networked box, and make as much as your sensitive data as possible less sensitive, by simply publishing it. GPL code, for example, doesn't have to be protected.
I'm not saying everything should be released, far from it, but there's a lot of "hidden" data that could just be left readable by everybody, by changing some company policies and being a tad more open about everything, thus removing the desire/need to hack the box it's hosted on.
I use a billion monkeys, each looking at one particular bit of a scenery, then I tell them to line up and take turn at the keyboard, to type what they saw in emacs (the favorite monkey editor, it requires a lot of dexterity), and compile a very large XPM file.
So what? this guy just figured out a way not to deal with a billion bananas and hundreds of tons of chimp shit. Big deal...
Red leds have been around for decades, but the higher you go in frequency (orange, yellow, green, and recently blue), the more expensive they get. Since you need many many triads of them to make a display, that may not be the cheapest one in town.
What's more, more often than not, LED colors aren't pure primitive colors, so it's even harder to get accurate RGB mixing with them.
I'll tell you what their problem is: they're the first. The first always loses.
Know thy Linux distro history : RedHat is not the first anything. Their distro is *not* the first Linux distro (Caldera's was), and RH isn't even the first Linux distro maker to shaft its users and antagonize everybody in the community (again, Caldera-now-SCO is).
This said, you're right : the first always lose, as Caldera/SCO has proven for years and will brilliantly prove again very soon thanks to IBM.
It would be fantastic to be able to get access to this and find out where you had been and when
Even better, combine information from all Virgin point of sales in the UK to obtain much more details: 8:21 - Virgin Mobile phone turned on in Kensington 9:55 - Virgin Mobile customer applies for a Virgin credit card 10:34 - Virgin Mobile customer orders a Virgin Cola near the Virgin V2 music store in Kensington 11:03 - Virgin Mobile customer goes for Virgin Vodka instead. Cola sucks. 12:45 - Virgin Mobile customer boards Virgin train, westbound 15:45 - Virgin Mobile phone located in Heathrow Airport at the Virgin Atlantic booth 16:12 - Virgin Mobile customer steps inside a bookshop in Heathrow Airport and buys a Virgin Book ...
This way my mother can find out I'm at a strib club, and won't ask me any inconvenient and embarrising questions when I get home because she will be too embarrised.
Also consider that perhaps the embarrising strib club workers won't teach you how to spell as well as your school.
A couple of new services have been rolled out in the UK recently which allow you to track people when they have their mobile phones turned on.
Such a service has existed for a long time. It's: Mom: [dialing little James] Jimmy, where are you? Little James: [Stepping out of the arcade] I'm at the school library
Of course, the accuracy of the information wasn't always guaranteed...
..very fast that the majority of computer users are advertisement-informed drone, that they don't know horseshit from caviar, and that if Microsoft Windows runs on their PC, if they can do Word and Excel and if they can play Solitaire at the office a little, that's all they care (and want to know) about, even if it means having to buy their CDs legit again.
As part of the "trustworthy computing" model established by Microsoft, Phoenix d-NA will leverage support for Redmond's CryptoAPI (CAPI) to deliver intrinsic security on systems running Windows and.NET applications
Why do I find leveraging any single crypto or security solution from one single vendor for the entire system worthy of concern more than trust? Nevermind that it's Microsoft, with an examplary track record of security expertise and openness with standards.
Please. IM can be very useful. If people aren't going to be productive, they're not going to be productive.
Hmm no, your logic is backward: there is a certain category of people who, IM or web or nothing at all, will do nothing. Those need to be fired. Another category is the people who do their work equally well and/or fast regardless of the shiny toys they have on their computer. Those need to be praise, they're not many. And the last category, the vast majority of workers, work well most of the time, but work even better without the distraction of IM, the web and whatever else.
So yeah, in many cases, they should just forbid the internet. Most accountants don't need it to do accountancy, for example. Most secretaries don't either.
Yes I realize that, my question is why there doesn't seem to be many voices against that bloat and insecurity trend in Windows : after all, it's not like it takes a computer genius to see that it's necessary to upgrade hard-disk (or entire machines, more likely) every 2 or 3 years, and purchase pricey antivirus software on top of the pricey Windows license, to compensate for the OS maker's own faults.
I mean, the issue touches people's wallets, where it really hurts, why doesn't anybody say anything ?
generally did a lot to get rid of instant messengers from my life. Am I weird or what?
No, you are not weird. It's a well-known fact that IM, even more than computer games, is a notorious productivity killer. So much so that many companies have started to firewall IM clients off and edict company rules forbidding the use of IM at the office.
Now Windows will propose it by default in all standard installs, I bet that Microsoft decision will be very popular amongst IT personels : it's hard enough to discourage the use of third-party applications without having to deal with the Microsoft trojan-horsish IM client...
Microsoft's community application that will be built into Longhorn
So IM will be build into Windows, and Netmeeting, and this and that and whatnot. Isn't this getting slightly ridiculous to bundle everything in an OS ? I'm sure nobody wants *all* of that installed on their hard-drive, just as I wouldn't want to install all the packages that come with my Linux distro CD, but instead I want to choose what I install and nothing else, and save disk space.
What's beyond me is why don't we hear a great number of people (regular users) complaining about this waste of disk space, and also why so few OS experts voice their concern about the fact that the OS/application boundary in Windows is so blurry it's frightening in terms of security and stability...
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JenniCam isn't closing, it's just changing name to reflect the fact that Jenni is getting ripe. Here are the official domain names she'll use in the future:
- PreggyCam.org
- MommyCam.org
- MenopausyCam.org
- NannyCam.org
- CoffinCam.org
There are tons of games on freshmeat.
- released -the-source-code-to-you-guys kind of games).
only 75% of which are free (as in speech), and 95% of those 75% being crap. Which leaves you only with a handful of really promising open-source games, and 2 or 3 really good original ones (that excludes Doom, Heretic, Duke3D, Quake and other previously-commercial-but-look-how-nice-we-are-we
Not much to make CDs out of really.
UnitedLinux to date seems to have had very little impact on the Linux user community - due to SCO's participation and the lack of unilateral support by Linux distribution vendors, most notably Red Hat.
...
Yes, having SCO and RedHat as organizations supporting your Linux project is a bit of a handicap
password: ********
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(hint: it begins with a p and ends with a d)
Hmmm
"powdered" ?
"predated" ?
No, dunno, I give up
For example, back when I was going to the University and was living in a slummy student complex where everything that could be stolen was, I used to have a shitty car, and I used to leave my car doors unlocked at night. My car wasn't a good candidate for theft, but when it *was* stolen (it happened twice), it was for joyrides and at least the robbers didn't burst the locks.
So I guess, the software equivalent of that would be to not leave expensive data that could interest people on networked box, and make as much as your sensitive data as possible less sensitive, by simply publishing it. GPL code, for example, doesn't have to be protected.
I'm not saying everything should be released, far from it, but there's a lot of "hidden" data that could just be left readable by everybody, by changing some company policies and being a tad more open about everything, thus removing the desire/need to hack the box it's hosted on.
after all that patient work, stitching and blending and doing everything manually for days, he realized he had left the lens cap on ?
I use a billion monkeys, each looking at one particular bit of a scenery, then I tell them to line up and take turn at the keyboard, to type what they saw in emacs (the favorite monkey editor, it requires a lot of dexterity), and compile a very large XPM file.
...
So what? this guy just figured out a way not to deal with a billion bananas and hundreds of tons of chimp shit. Big deal
Red leds have been around for decades, but the higher you go in frequency (orange, yellow, green, and recently blue), the more expensive they get. Since you need many many triads of them to make a display, that may not be the cheapest one in town.
What's more, more often than not, LED colors aren't pure primitive colors, so it's even harder to get accurate RGB mixing with them.
I'll tell you what their problem is: they're the first. The first always loses.
Know thy Linux distro history : RedHat is not the first anything. Their distro is *not* the first Linux distro (Caldera's was), and RH isn't even the first Linux distro maker to shaft its users and antagonize everybody in the community (again, Caldera-now-SCO is).
This said, you're right : the first always lose, as Caldera/SCO has proven for years and will brilliantly prove again very soon thanks to IBM.
It would be fantastic to be able to get access to this and find out where you had been and when
:
...
Even better, combine information from all Virgin point of sales in the UK to obtain much more details
8:21 - Virgin Mobile phone turned on in Kensington
9:55 - Virgin Mobile customer applies for a Virgin credit card
10:34 - Virgin Mobile customer orders a Virgin Cola near the Virgin V2 music store in Kensington
11:03 - Virgin Mobile customer goes for Virgin Vodka instead. Cola sucks.
12:45 - Virgin Mobile customer boards Virgin train, westbound
15:45 - Virgin Mobile phone located in Heathrow Airport at the Virgin Atlantic booth
16:12 - Virgin Mobile customer steps inside a bookshop in Heathrow Airport and buys a Virgin Book
This way my mother can find out I'm at a strib club, and won't ask me any inconvenient and embarrising questions when I get home because she will be too embarrised.
Also consider that perhaps the embarrising strib club workers won't teach you how to spell as well as your school.
A couple of new services have been rolled out in the UK recently which allow you to track people when they have their mobile phones turned on.
:
...
Such a service has existed for a long time. It's
Mom: [dialing little James] Jimmy, where are you?
Little James: [Stepping out of the arcade] I'm at the school library
Of course, the accuracy of the information wasn't always guaranteed
..very fast that the majority of computer users are advertisement-informed drone, that they don't know horseshit from caviar, and that if Microsoft Windows runs on their PC, if they can do Word and Excel and if they can play Solitaire at the office a little, that's all they care (and want to know) about, even if it means having to buy their CDs legit again.
I know we are running out of acronyms but there should still be a few million letter combinations left.
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Such as SuX, POS or FUBAR ?
No, to describe that new bios, they were all taken
As part of the "trustworthy computing" model established by Microsoft, Phoenix d-NA will leverage support for Redmond's CryptoAPI (CAPI) to deliver intrinsic security on systems running Windows and .NET applications
Why do I find leveraging any single crypto or security solution from one single vendor for the entire system worthy of concern more than trust? Nevermind that it's Microsoft, with an examplary track record of security expertise and openness with standards.
Not for me, nosiree.
If all goes according to plan, a new product the company dubs Core System Software (CSS) will serve as the foundation of PC architecture.
DeCSS anyone?
Please. IM can be very useful. If people aren't going to be productive, they're not going to be productive.
Hmm no, your logic is backward: there is a certain category of people who, IM or web or nothing at all, will do nothing. Those need to be fired. Another category is the people who do their work equally well and/or fast regardless of the shiny toys they have on their computer. Those need to be praise, they're not many. And the last category, the vast majority of workers, work well most of the time, but work even better without the distraction of IM, the web and whatever else.
So yeah, in many cases, they should just forbid the internet. Most accountants don't need it to do accountancy, for example. Most secretaries don't either.
Yes I realize that, my question is why there doesn't seem to be many voices against that bloat and insecurity trend in Windows : after all, it's not like it takes a computer genius to see that it's necessary to upgrade hard-disk (or entire machines, more likely) every 2 or 3 years, and purchase pricey antivirus software on top of the pricey Windows license, to compensate for the OS maker's own faults.
I mean, the issue touches people's wallets, where it really hurts, why doesn't anybody say anything ?
generally did a lot to get rid of instant messengers from my life. Am I weird or what?
...
No, you are not weird. It's a well-known fact that IM, even more than computer games, is a notorious productivity killer. So much so that many companies have started to firewall IM clients off and edict company rules forbidding the use of IM at the office.
Now Windows will propose it by default in all standard installs, I bet that Microsoft decision will be very popular amongst IT personels : it's hard enough to discourage the use of third-party applications without having to deal with the Microsoft trojan-horsish IM client
Microsoft's community application that will be built into Longhorn
...
So IM will be build into Windows, and Netmeeting, and this and that and whatnot. Isn't this getting slightly ridiculous to bundle everything in an OS ? I'm sure nobody wants *all* of that installed on their hard-drive, just as I wouldn't want to install all the packages that come with my Linux distro CD, but instead I want to choose what I install and nothing else, and save disk space.
What's beyond me is why don't we hear a great number of people (regular users) complaining about this waste of disk space, and also why so few OS experts voice their concern about the fact that the OS/application boundary in Windows is so blurry it's frightening in terms of security and stability
I'm still trying to figure out the 15th Dilbert cartoon ...
this player comes with java-based software
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Great, I bet you can put a casserole on it and boil eggs while you listen to music
And what do you call a music fan prostitute reading Slashdot, uuh ?
If you are offended, it's your fault, fuck you. For example, nothing you can say can possibly offend me.
Oh yeah? You obviously haven't met the Knights of Ni
NI!
NI!
I can just picture the Chihuahua go "Yo quiero MSN" or "You got Windows, right?"
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Nah, that won't work