What I'm seeing is everyone complaining about mozilla's UI, and regretting that the only option at the office is to use IE.
What about netscape? Under the hood, it's mozilla. Ok, it doesn't have the neat options everyone's raving about (I sure wish I could make it whack those X-10 popups), but the rendering engine IIRC is the same that mozilla uses. Isn't that what a browser is for? To render html, right?
Am I missing something here? We are the loyal opposition, so why aren't we using NS 6 at the office instead of IE?
For the record, I use NS 6.2.3 at the office on a win2k box, and 4.77 at home on my SuSE 7.2 box. NS 6 seems to work very well, but honestly I am content running 4.77 as my primary browser (I email stuff to myself at home so I can bookmark them in 4.77). I'd consider switching to 6 at home if the bookmarks worked better and imported right in NS 6 or mozilla, though.
In addition to the intended usage of VNC which is to control a host remotely, the ability to put VNC on a toaster or other kitchen appliance also has a secondary function. Since VNC by its very nature shows you what the host machine is displaying and also what the user is using the computer for, this hack will enable parents to covertly spy on what their kids are eating for after-school snacks.
I guess I was about 4 years old when I put a penny across the exposed prongs of a plug that was half out of the electrical socket. I remember doing it, even.
When I was 5 or so (Hurricane Camille came through in '68, that might have been it) we had a hurricane leave a lot of flooding in my hometown in Louisiana. There used to be a Texaco gas station/convenience store next door, and Mom went over there for bread or somesuch, and I demanded to be allowed to tag along. I remember walking in ankle-deep water, finding a wire laying on the ground, picking it up and saying, "hey Ma, look what I found". Apparently the wire was still attached to the electrical pole, and was live.
I'm told that my mom saw me standing frozen, and started screaming for my Dad who was working int he yard repairing something that broke during the hurricane due to the high winds, and he came running over, full-speed, and grabbed me without breaking stride. His momentum forced the wire out of my hand. I don't remember him grabbing me, though. I must have been out by then.
Anyhow, both events landed me in the emergency room.
I was late (I got on-site at about 8 PM), and discovered that the place we were supposed to meet at has been closed down for over a year. What planning! The guy at the hotel desk I queried said that a few people were there earlier, and also that there had been another meetup group asking directions the previous night, as well.
Sigh. I hope those folks decided to go to somewhere else.
I'd also like to see locals suggest venues, instead of the meetup reps. I was reading this thread earlier this afternoon, and other posters were complaining about bum destinations, too.
It wasn't that long ago that China came out with Commie Linux.
Then last week we read that M$ and China struck a deal that essentially says that M$ will look the other way regarding software piracy so long at it's M$ software that's being pirated.
Now we find that the Chinese are rolling their own windoze-substitute.
Anybody got half a clue as to what might be going on?
My personal email address is mccallclAThotmailDOTcom, and many of the spams I recieve are also addressed to mccallca, mccallcb, mccallcc and so on.
Yeah, I get stuff like that too, but I strongly suspect that it's smoke and mirrors, an attempt to make it look like it got sent to me by mistake --- in other words, they they supposedly typoed the "real" address (the database barfed, or the secretary hit paste and bobbled the address string) and "accidentally" ended up sending it to me in addition to the "real" recipient.
It's not about the artists, and it's never been about the artists. It's only about the record companies and how much money they can make.
It's not about the fans, either. Ok, so this may be flamebait, but so what. I'm pushing 40 and I've got an opinion, just like everybody else.
Fans are stupid. How much does a Britney CD cost? Around $17 these days? It's stupid to pay 17 bucks for $artist's CD. The record companies make sure that there is a steady crop of new artists and new songs by both new and old artists on the radio (and as stated earler, the radio stations and Clear Channel, etc. have their own finger in the pie), and everybody rushes out to purchase the newest CD by $artist. It's rigged, and few people understand that. Everyone is out for your money. I guess I could make the same argument about movies, too.
I'm not advocating "stealing" via napster, etc., I'm simply saying that fans are being fleeced. If the fans said "enough", the industry would up and die inside 12 months. It'll never happen, though. However, the insatiable desire for entertainment was one of the things that brought down the Roman Empire.
Also today on slashdot is something about mobius strips, and there was a story (I don't remember the name of it, *sigh*) about a new subway link that had a mobius twist, and a car got lost for like a week. The car could could be heard on the tracks, but not seen. Finally it showed up again, and they afterward closed that section of track permanently.
Watch out for the karma fairy, he's coming your way as promised, in a week or two, I'll wager:-)
There was a guy out in California by the name of Quintus Teal that was into building so-called "hypercubes". He was a real estate developer, and constructed tesseracts for people to live in.
A karma point to whoever can name the story I am referring to:-)
Ok, I know I'm going to get flamed for this, but...
It is common knowledge that many "civil rights, labor and peace groups" are radically left, and in some cases exist only to function as front groups for communist infiltration efforts, etc. We're not supposed to say this kind of stuff anymore, but when I was a kid, we were still very much involved in the Cold War. Some of these groups need to be spied upon and watched very closely.
Bringing this to the present, many mosques are front organizations for Hamas, etc. (remember the professor at the Florida university who's under inversigation for his speeches?). These types of people are our enemies, and it is foolish and irresponsible to say, "oh, we can't do anything about it, we don't want to offend them or deny them their civil rights".
I am personally acquainted with a number of muslims here in the states, and am happy to call them friends, but those elements that are up to no good ought to be spied upon, arrested, and jailed or deported as appropriate.
I'm reading Games of State this weekend, and their techies had a device that worked exactly like this. The device used a laser beam pulse lasting 100 femtoseconds, or a frequency in the terahertz range, between infrared and radio waves. The book was published in 1996, and the paperback version has the description on page 147.
IANACD (I am not a chip designer), but it seems to me a way out of this dilemma is for ia64 to run 64-bit code, period, end of discussion, with a built-in 32-bit virtual machine for legacy apps. It works for vmware to run apps for one OS on a totally different host OS, so why not?
Ok, stupid idea... but what about doing this on the OS level, with a virtual machine available to run legacy code. AFAIK this is how users run MacOS9 apps under OSX.
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I used to be a cable modem installer for Cox. Usually, the installers are supposed to put filters to block out whatever services you aren't paying for (extended basic, premium channels, HBO, whatever). Besides the fact that getting data-only from Cox is dumb (you pay $10 more for a data-only account than if you also had basic cable), there is a filter that we used to install that blocked out all TV channels.
Granted, I didn't work for AT&T, but if they aren't intalling service-level filters, they're losing money.
Um, I install 7.3 via ftp all the time (I've done like a dozen 7.2 and 7.3 installs this way).
What you have to remember is that you are trying to install hundreds of megabytes from the other side of an ocean (the best mirror is ftp.gwdg.de), and adjust accordingly.
The most reliable method is to install the least amount of software initially (there is an option for that, or you can adjust the package list to taste). Get a running system, then fire up yast again and install more packages (move to a higher profile, for example). Two or three steps is usually enough to have a kicking desktop/development install.
Bugs? Ya, 7.3 had that nasty yast bug, but that got fixed. 8.0? I haven't heard anything bad about it in #suse on irc.openprojects.net.
As far as 7.3 being out-of-date, you're right... as far as I can tell, SuSE does what it can for a particular release, irons out any bugs shaken loose during the post-release period, then moves on to the next release. The developers do try to back-port any bug fixes to the older releases, but most of their energy is spent getting the next batch of 1337 4PPz ready for the next versioned release.
A buddy of mine at $university was given that as a project by the computing department's sysadmin. He found quite a number of easy passwords (the computer labs are stocked with solaris boxen, and he was given permission to lock the accounts of the offending students for 1 week. Quite a number of these students ended up failing their weekly projects due to being locked out out their accounts. The deparment had previously informed the students of the need of keeping their password secure, etc..
It's harsh, but you can bet they learned their lesson.
Don't laugh... what happens when the database that houses all this biomentric database gets hacked (because it's using passport for authentication, perhaps)? Anyone can spoof my retinal data (or whatever), and I can't ask the admin in charge to reset my password, can I?
Mr. Stein, have you guys considered putting this new palette on your page as a download for Photoshop? I use the web-safe ones, and like them very much. I'd like to play with this new colorset you have, too.
Oh, come on! Http involves a bunch of GET requests. I can GET what I want off an apache server. There is no law that says I must download everything on a page (or anything on a page --- I can choose to ignore any page I want on the net and surf elsewhere --- it's a free Internet).
Me and junkbuster are quite happy not downloading ads,/. or otherwise, thank you.
That said, if I ever land a real job (or get enough contracts to do more than put the occasional bit of food on my table), I fully intend to subscribe to slashdot.
(from their manual) "No new software is needed to establish a DSL connection for a UNIX computer, but you will have to configure your existing network settings to work with your gateway. The way this is done can vary greatly, depending on the version of UNIX or Linux you are using. Rather than document every version, which could take hundreads of pages, this guide relies on the higher level of sophistication of UNIX and Linux users to enable them to tailor the following procedure to suit their needs. This may require consulting the user guide for your particular system". Ha!
I've had to call support twice due to outage (until I figured out that the monkey in the CO likes to take everyone down in the middle of the day at least once a month for repairs or somesuch), and the techs I spoke with were Linux users themselves outside of their jobs. One was quick enough to check off the required items (unplug the gateway, etc.) and bump up the call to the tier-II guys. Each time, however, the service returned after a few hours.
I recommend DirecTVdsl to everyone I talk to. I like to tell them I am getting 1235k downstream (I'm.8 miles from the CO):-)
Incidentally, I worked at a now-defunct dialup ISP (fastband) couple of years ago, and had to deal with my share of lusers.
...that's because it happened less than 2 weeks ago to us. My wife allowed some MCI slime to keep her on the phone for 20 minutes (she is too nice with these types of people), and the next thing we knew, we get notice in the mail that we were switched from AT&T. She never told them "yes", she only said that she would think about their offers.
No joke, MCI did this to us, not some fly-by-night company no one's ever heard of.
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What about netscape? Under the hood, it's mozilla. Ok, it doesn't have the neat options everyone's raving about (I sure wish I could make it whack those X-10 popups), but the rendering engine IIRC is the same that mozilla uses. Isn't that what a browser is for? To render html, right?
Am I missing something here? We are the loyal opposition, so why aren't we using NS 6 at the office instead of IE?
For the record, I use NS 6.2.3 at the office on a win2k box, and 4.77 at home on my SuSE 7.2 box. NS 6 seems to work very well, but honestly I am content running 4.77 as my primary browser (I email stuff to myself at home so I can bookmark them in 4.77). I'd consider switching to 6 at home if the bookmarks worked better and imported right in NS 6 or mozilla, though.
In addition to the intended usage of VNC which is to control a host remotely, the ability to put VNC on a toaster or other kitchen appliance also has a secondary function. Since VNC by its very nature shows you what the host machine is displaying and also what the user is using the computer for, this hack will enable parents to covertly spy on what their kids are eating for after-school snacks.
I guess I was about 4 years old when I put a penny across the exposed prongs of a plug that was half out of the electrical socket. I remember doing it, even.
When I was 5 or so (Hurricane Camille came through in '68, that might have been it) we had a hurricane leave a lot of flooding in my hometown in Louisiana. There used to be a Texaco gas station/convenience store next door, and Mom went over there for bread or somesuch, and I demanded to be allowed to tag along. I remember walking in ankle-deep water, finding a wire laying on the ground, picking it up and saying, "hey Ma, look what I found". Apparently the wire was still attached to the electrical pole, and was live.
I'm told that my mom saw me standing frozen, and started screaming for my Dad who was working int he yard repairing something that broke during the hurricane due to the high winds, and he came running over, full-speed, and grabbed me without breaking stride. His momentum forced the wire out of my hand. I don't remember him grabbing me, though. I must have been out by then.
Anyhow, both events landed me in the emergency room.
Sigh. I hope those folks decided to go to somewhere else.
I'd also like to see locals suggest venues, instead of the meetup reps. I was reading this thread earlier this afternoon, and other posters were complaining about bum destinations, too.
Anybody got half a clue as to what might be going on?
Yeah, I get stuff like that too, but I strongly suspect that it's smoke and mirrors, an attempt to make it look like it got sent to me by mistake --- in other words, they they supposedly typoed the "real" address (the database barfed, or the secretary hit paste and bobbled the address string) and "accidentally" ended up sending it to me in addition to the "real" recipient.
Sleazeballs.
It's not about the fans, either. Ok, so this may be flamebait, but so what. I'm pushing 40 and I've got an opinion, just like everybody else.
Fans are stupid. How much does a Britney CD cost? Around $17 these days? It's stupid to pay 17 bucks for $artist's CD. The record companies make sure that there is a steady crop of new artists and new songs by both new and old artists on the radio (and as stated earler, the radio stations and Clear Channel, etc. have their own finger in the pie), and everybody rushes out to purchase the newest CD by $artist. It's rigged, and few people understand that. Everyone is out for your money. I guess I could make the same argument about movies, too.
I'm not advocating "stealing" via napster, etc., I'm simply saying that fans are being fleeced. If the fans said "enough", the industry would up and die inside 12 months. It'll never happen, though. However, the insatiable desire for entertainment was one of the things that brought down the Roman Empire.
Think about it.
Also today on slashdot is something about mobius strips, and there was a story (I don't remember the name of it, *sigh*) about a new subway link that had a mobius twist, and a car got lost for like a week. The car could could be heard on the tracks, but not seen. Finally it showed up again, and they afterward closed that section of track permanently.
Watch out for the karma fairy, he's coming your way as promised, in a week or two, I'll wager :-)
A karma point to whoever can name the story I am referring to :-)
It is common knowledge that many "civil rights, labor and peace groups" are radically left, and in some cases exist only to function as front groups for communist infiltration efforts, etc. We're not supposed to say this kind of stuff anymore, but when I was a kid, we were still very much involved in the Cold War. Some of these groups need to be spied upon and watched very closely.
Bringing this to the present, many mosques are front organizations for Hamas, etc. (remember the professor at the Florida university who's under inversigation for his speeches?). These types of people are our enemies, and it is foolish and irresponsible to say, "oh, we can't do anything about it, we don't want to offend them or deny them their civil rights".
I am personally acquainted with a number of muslims here in the states, and am happy to call them friends, but those elements that are up to no good ought to be spied upon, arrested, and jailed or deported as appropriate.
I'm reading Games of State this weekend, and their techies had a device that worked exactly like this. The device used a laser beam pulse lasting 100 femtoseconds, or a frequency in the terahertz range, between infrared and radio waves. The book was published in 1996, and the paperback version has the description on page 147.
Ok, stupid idea... but what about doing this on the OS level, with a virtual machine available to run legacy code. AFAIK this is how users run MacOS9 apps under OSX.
Granted, I didn't work for AT&T, but if they aren't intalling service-level filters, they're losing money.
To my knowledge, YaST1 has been dropped from the 8.0 release. YaST2 can of course be used in text-mode.
What you have to remember is that you are trying to install hundreds of megabytes from the other side of an ocean (the best mirror is ftp.gwdg.de), and adjust accordingly.
The most reliable method is to install the least amount of software initially (there is an option for that, or you can adjust the package list to taste). Get a running system, then fire up yast again and install more packages (move to a higher profile, for example). Two or three steps is usually enough to have a kicking desktop/development install.
Bugs? Ya, 7.3 had that nasty yast bug, but that got fixed. 8.0? I haven't heard anything bad about it in #suse on irc.openprojects.net.
As far as 7.3 being out-of-date, you're right... as far as I can tell, SuSE does what it can for a particular release, irons out any bugs shaken loose during the post-release period, then moves on to the next release. The developers do try to back-port any bug fixes to the older releases, but most of their energy is spent getting the next batch of 1337 4PPz ready for the next versioned release.
It's harsh, but you can bet they learned their lesson.
Dear God, please let this patent be upheld. Free us from this awful plague that has infested the internet.
Don't laugh... what happens when the database that houses all this biomentric database gets hacked (because it's using passport for authentication, perhaps)? Anyone can spoof my retinal data (or whatever), and I can't ask the admin in charge to reset my password, can I?
Mr. Stein, have you guys considered putting this new palette on your page as a download for Photoshop? I use the web-safe ones, and like them very much. I'd like to play with this new colorset you have, too.
Suse 8.0 only has StarOffice 5.2, but it does include the latest OpenOffice build (the one that just came out).
That said, if I ever land a real job (or get enough contracts to do more than put the occasional bit of food on my table), I fully intend to subscribe to slashdot.
- XP Home = $97
- XP Professional = $149
I know I can get better prices on the web than MicroPC gives me, but RMAs are soooo easy, so I'm willing to pay their markup, etc.sync to lookout... you gotta be kidding
(from their manual) "No new software is needed to establish a DSL connection for a UNIX computer, but you will have to configure your existing network settings to work with your gateway. The way this is done can vary greatly, depending on the version of UNIX or Linux you are using. Rather than document every version, which could take hundreads of pages, this guide relies on the higher level of sophistication of UNIX and Linux users to enable them to tailor the following procedure to suit their needs. This may require consulting the user guide for your particular system". Ha!
I've had to call support twice due to outage (until I figured out that the monkey in the CO likes to take everyone down in the middle of the day at least once a month for repairs or somesuch), and the techs I spoke with were Linux users themselves outside of their jobs. One was quick enough to check off the required items (unplug the gateway, etc.) and bump up the call to the tier-II guys. Each time, however, the service returned after a few hours.
I recommend DirecTVdsl to everyone I talk to. I like to tell them I am getting 1235k downstream (I'm .8 miles from the CO) :-)
Incidentally, I worked at a now-defunct dialup ISP (fastband) couple of years ago, and had to deal with my share of lusers.
No joke, MCI did this to us, not some fly-by-night company no one's ever heard of.