For example, I picked up the new Counting Crows CD the other day, because it rocks and has a lot of good stuff on it (as their albums usually do). Of course, I did my part and went to the local independent record store to get it...
It only seems to catch them if they occur at the end of a word - for example, I piped "grep eval/usr/share/dict/words" into an HTML email, and got this when it sent:
I just now got it to work - you have to first check the "Allow HTML tags" box at the bottom of Yahoo's composer screen, and then make sure you use some tags in the message. In my test, a FONT tag was enough to do it - my "test message" was
<font face="Verdana" color="#336699" size="-1">This is a medieval free expression mocha email</font>
It worked, and I got nice pretty blue text reading "This is a medireview free statement espresso email".
Mirage was a fun set...that cycle was nice in general (Visions was one of the most underrated sets of all time). Then the Tempest block was good, then Magic went to hell. If those are the "Old cards", then they're old but good...oh for a taste of Alliances, or good old Legends...
I used to be a Magic tournament judge, so I had to know the rules and sets backwards and forwards. He may be referring to the Type I (Classic)/Type II (Standard) "tiers", or he may be talking about the Beginner Level (Portal)/Expert Level (current edition and expansion sets) "tiers". Clarification would be helpful, as either one works. I also haven't dealt with tournament-level Magic in three years, so take my words with a grain of salt. I used to play the pro-tour qualifier circuit (never was good enough to break through, though) before I moved on with my life...now I play casually with my friends and don't even know what edition WotC is up to or what crazy errata they've got going fo rit.
Look at that second shot again...do you see a "menu panel" in there? Because I sure don't. And I see a main menu at the bottom left...
Oh, and all those development screenshots, and all the screenshots on gnome.org right now? They don't have it either. So what is this person's problem?
The Gnome menu panel now resembles a bit of MacOS. It sits on the top of the desktop, and no matter what I tried, I can't change its position.
He laments this for some time, never mind the fact that I've seen all sorts of GNOME2 screenshots where that panel is quite happily at the bottom of the screen. Then, I look at his second screenshot, and there it is! This guy is either incompetent or lying or both.
If they don't like America, they can stay here and we'll lock them up, no trouble. Just wait until the Enemy Combatant Prize Patrol rolls up to your door at 4 AM to tell you the Office of Homeland Defense is going to imprison you without charges, evidence, a trial, or even a lawyer. That'll teach all the damned ingrates to respect a free country.
Yes. Majority rules. So in about ten years, if you want to speak English, you should go to England, because the majority of Americans will likely be Hispanics who hablo espanol. You should also convert to Roman Catholicism if you'd like to stay here. Also please change your ethnicity, we don't allow people of your type here, you don't conform to the majority. That's what America is all about...the majority dictates absolutely, and forces everyone to do what they say, even if it's against the will of a few pesky people who think they ought to be free.
I've been using Red Hat for quite a while now, and while they did do notices for the 2.4 kernel when it was first released (for example), I doubt they'll do it for GNOME 2.0; it's too new, too (possibly) buggy, and not enough apps have been ported for them to include it "mainstream" for a while. At best, I'd say they'll include it in a beta later this year/early 2003, when the bugs are mostly ironed out and lots of apps (like Galeon, AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc.) have been ported. If you're into that sort of stuff, start watching Red Hat's beta FTP (I think it's Rawhide, not sure).
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OK...when I need a bill, I have to open my wallet anyway; can't get the bill out otherwise. Oh, yes, I believe at that point I can see enough to tell them apart.
Imagine growing up, always having your language as a means of communication. Suddenly you're somewhere else, you speak your language, and nobody understands you!
That's the novelty of going somewhere foreign, IMO; they do things differently there. When I travel abroad, I will not complain about how I'm not used to color-coded money and ask the governmnent there to please change it for my convenience; I'll adapt to it as I would to any local peculiarity. When foreigners come here, I expect them to return the favor. Preserve diversity. Let the U.S. do what it likes (oh, the irnoy of those two statements actually working together).
So copy/paste and put it in a new window/tab...it's not that hard. Even better, if you're using Galeon (which released 1.2.2 yesterday), select the text of the link and middle-click to open a new tab and paste that as the location...
I don't think it's made up...the site did exist...check out the Google cache of perlbox.org if you need proof. I think it's more likely that someone's screwed up their DNS settings somewhere...especially since there's a splash screen for the site at perlbox.sourceforge.net and that one also eventually takes you to the camelot naturals page.
I just heard something like that last week...James Q. Wilson (social scientist, moralist, darling of the conservatives) was speaking at my school, and tossed off some comment about how "conservatives may have committed many evils, but they've never censored speech on a college campus. Liberals are the ones who do that."
But after hearing that and now your related comment, I still don't think it's true. For one thing, I have yet to see good examples (this happens a lot; e.g., Wilson was also fond of saying that all the students in his classes, when asked whether they'd condemn the Holocaust, had a knee-jerk "well, we have to view it from the Nazi's point of view before we judge" reaction...I live in academia and I've never met anyone who would honestly and seriously say that). In fact, the only examples I have are myself and my friends - against censorship of anything, for any reason, regardless of what "wing" of politics is getting shafted by the censorship, and I think most people who are going to "jump up and down and scream bloody murder" would feel the same way...
It would seem that what you're talking about is Red Hat doing work for a corporate client, then waiting a while to polish it before making it available to the rest of the world at large. This is perfectly acceptable and is in fact probably in the strictest accord with the GPL - someone needs a program to be better, they hire some programmers to fix it. Red Hat will have to provide source to the corporate client, but they're not required to distribute anything to the public at large; they just do it anyway. Their only responsibility is to provide a copy of the source code to anyone they've given a binary to, and that is "on demand". If they only ever give the binary to their corporate client, they have to give the client source, and the same goes for the public release...as soon as they publicly release a binary they must publicly release source. Nothing says they have to publicly release the binary though.
And notice also that Red Hat doesn't do what Lindows is trying to do. Go to Red Hat's public FTP sometime and you'll notice that the current beta (I believe I linked to the right one there, it's skipjack right now, right?), includes a directory named "SRPMs".
That's source for the beta, seeing as the GPL requires it to be available when they distribute binaries. That's exactly what Lindows is saying they don't have to do - their argument is "it's a beta release, we don't have to give anyone source for it". And that's wrong...the GPL requires them to give source to their beta users, and it's good sense anyway...it would help them find and eliminate bugs faster.
Well, subscriptions to allow use of the API could work. There's also the possibility of *gasp* licensing fees - you don't really think Google's income all comes from text ads, do you? They've been licensing their search to people for a good long while...
After a new install, I make GNOME look pretty as follows:
$ cd themes/gnome
$ tar zxvf gnome-theme-ball.tar.gz
$ cd../sawfish
$ tar zxvf sawfish-theme-ball.tar.gz
$ su
# cp *.tar.gz/usr/share/sawfish/0.30/themes
# exit
$ gnomecc
Then I select the themes I want and off I go. Takes about two minutes. Of course, that's because I've got a collection of my favorite GTK and Sawfish themes (and wallpapers too actually) that I just keep lying around in tarballs for whenever I need them, but I always figured that was a sensible thing to do...
And with that said, GNOME 1.4 by default was a heck of a lot prettier than 1.2; that ugly old default GTK theme just needs to be buried and forgotten. And I don't know what 2.0 will look like by default, but I imagine it won't be too bad.
We see a small datacenter, with a couple geeks staffing it. Two large Italian Tony-Soprano type men walk in.
Geek: Can I help you?
Guys: No, we was just admiring this fine setup youse has here.
Geek: OK...
Guys: You know, it would be a shame if anything was to happen to this place...youse has such nice computers here.
Geek: Um...are you threatening me? Because I can call Security if you are.
Guys: No, no, we was just observing what a shame it would be if something bad happened to this here datacenter. Of course, that would never happen...especially if youse guys upgrade to Windows XP.
Geek: Wait a minute...are you from Microsoft?
Guys: In fact, we have to report to Mr. Gates soon...we can tell him for you that youse wants to upgrade. How many licenses does youse guys need?
Geek: We don't need Windows XP. Our current setup runs fine and upgrading would cost an obscene amount of money.
Guys:(Crack knuckles) Yeah, it would be a shame if anything were to happen to youse guys and these fine computers...
Fade to black, displaying text on the screen:
Tired of strong-arm upgrade tactics?
Step out of the dark, seedy world of Microsoft and into the light.
UNIX. The friendly alternative.
And of course, there's potential for a whole series of ads here...
Yes, KDE and GNOME have issues running on small systems. What this means is that if you don't want to deal with that you stick to software that does run well on small systems. For example, Enlightenment as the WM/desktop and plenty of GTK apps in the menus works just fine on "low-end" systems, in my experience.
It just seems to me that this is pointing out trivialities - on a low-end system, don't use resource-heavy software (and keep in mind that most of the *really* good stuff in Linux/UNIX is command-line anyway...terminal windows don't eat much in the way of resource unless it's Eterm with transparency and half a dozen other effects set). Tool == job.
Just imagine if they'd took his claims at face value and it turned out that he had five pounds of C4 up his backside, wired to a detonator under his tongue, controlled by a timer in his cool dark glasses.
I think you're leading into an either/or fallacy here...if they don't yank his electrodes and destroy/damage/lose his equipment, that doesn't mean they have to say "yes, sir, go right on in" without checking anything. The guy has signed papers from his doctors explaining the implants and what they do, they can run bomb/metal/drug sniffing sensors over his electrodes, etc. without damaging him or the equipment, and then everybody's happy. The problem here is that apparently the security guys just didn't know when to stop.
AOL has blocked other companies access before successfully
Umm...Gaim? I'm signed on right now via the Oscar protocol, been online 2 days without interruption. So I guess you're right, AOL certainly seems to have done a good job of blocking it. Of course, Gaim probably doesn't really count as a "company"...
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For example, I picked up the new Counting Crows CD the other day, because it rocks and has a lot of good stuff on it (as their albums usually do). Of course, I did my part and went to the local independent record store to get it...
It only seems to catch them if they occur at the end of a word - for example, I piped "grep eval /usr/share/dict/words" into an HTML email, and got this when it sent:
I just now got it to work - you have to first check the "Allow HTML tags" box at the bottom of Yahoo's composer screen, and then make sure you use some tags in the message. In my test, a FONT tag was enough to do it - my "test message" was
It worked, and I got nice pretty blue text reading "This is a medireview free statement espresso email".I just sent an HTML message to my Yahoo account, and nothing got changed. Any suggestions on how to reproduce the effect?
They were introduced 3-4 years ago. Portal was the first "Beginner" set.
Mirage was a fun set...that cycle was nice in general (Visions was one of the most underrated sets of all time). Then the Tempest block was good, then Magic went to hell. If those are the "Old cards", then they're old but good...oh for a taste of Alliances, or good old Legends...
I used to be a Magic tournament judge, so I had to know the rules and sets backwards and forwards. He may be referring to the Type I (Classic)/Type II (Standard) "tiers", or he may be talking about the Beginner Level (Portal)/Expert Level (current edition and expansion sets) "tiers". Clarification would be helpful, as either one works. I also haven't dealt with tournament-level Magic in three years, so take my words with a grain of salt. I used to play the pro-tour qualifier circuit (never was good enough to break through, though) before I moved on with my life...now I play casually with my friends and don't even know what edition WotC is up to or what crazy errata they've got going fo rit.
Look at that second shot again...do you see a "menu panel" in there? Because I sure don't. And I see a main menu at the bottom left...
Oh, and all those development screenshots, and all the screenshots on gnome.org right now? They don't have it either. So what is this person's problem?
Right off, the reviewer complains:
He laments this for some time, never mind the fact that I've seen all sorts of GNOME2 screenshots where that panel is quite happily at the bottom of the screen. Then, I look at his second screenshot, and there it is! This guy is either incompetent or lying or both.If they don't like America, they can stay here and we'll lock them up, no trouble. Just wait until the Enemy Combatant Prize Patrol rolls up to your door at 4 AM to tell you the Office of Homeland Defense is going to imprison you without charges, evidence, a trial, or even a lawyer. That'll teach all the damned ingrates to respect a free country.
Yes. Majority rules. So in about ten years, if you want to speak English, you should go to England, because the majority of Americans will likely be Hispanics who hablo espanol. You should also convert to Roman Catholicism if you'd like to stay here. Also please change your ethnicity, we don't allow people of your type here, you don't conform to the majority. That's what America is all about...the majority dictates absolutely, and forces everyone to do what they say, even if it's against the will of a few pesky people who think they ought to be free.
I've been using Red Hat for quite a while now, and while they did do notices for the 2.4 kernel when it was first released (for example), I doubt they'll do it for GNOME 2.0; it's too new, too (possibly) buggy, and not enough apps have been ported for them to include it "mainstream" for a while. At best, I'd say they'll include it in a beta later this year/early 2003, when the bugs are mostly ironed out and lots of apps (like Galeon, AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc.) have been ported. If you're into that sort of stuff, start watching Red Hat's beta FTP (I think it's Rawhide, not sure).
OK...when I need a bill, I have to open my wallet anyway; can't get the bill out otherwise. Oh, yes, I believe at that point I can see enough to tell them apart.
Imagine growing up, always having your language as a means of communication. Suddenly you're somewhere else, you speak your language, and nobody understands you!
That's the novelty of going somewhere foreign, IMO; they do things differently there. When I travel abroad, I will not complain about how I'm not used to color-coded money and ask the governmnent there to please change it for my convenience; I'll adapt to it as I would to any local peculiarity. When foreigners come here, I expect them to return the favor. Preserve diversity. Let the U.S. do what it likes (oh, the irnoy of those two statements actually working together).
In an article posted yesterday, it was covered.
So copy/paste and put it in a new window/tab...it's not that hard. Even better, if you're using Galeon (which released 1.2.2 yesterday), select the text of the link and middle-click to open a new tab and paste that as the location...
I don't think it's made up...the site did exist...check out the Google cache of perlbox.org if you need proof. I think it's more likely that someone's screwed up their DNS settings somewhere...especially since there's a splash screen for the site at perlbox.sourceforge.net and that one also eventually takes you to the camelot naturals page.
I just heard something like that last week...James Q. Wilson (social scientist, moralist, darling of the conservatives) was speaking at my school, and tossed off some comment about how "conservatives may have committed many evils, but they've never censored speech on a college campus. Liberals are the ones who do that."
But after hearing that and now your related comment, I still don't think it's true. For one thing, I have yet to see good examples (this happens a lot; e.g., Wilson was also fond of saying that all the students in his classes, when asked whether they'd condemn the Holocaust, had a knee-jerk "well, we have to view it from the Nazi's point of view before we judge" reaction...I live in academia and I've never met anyone who would honestly and seriously say that). In fact, the only examples I have are myself and my friends - against censorship of anything, for any reason, regardless of what "wing" of politics is getting shafted by the censorship, and I think most people who are going to "jump up and down and scream bloody murder" would feel the same way...
It would seem that what you're talking about is Red Hat doing work for a corporate client, then waiting a while to polish it before making it available to the rest of the world at large. This is perfectly acceptable and is in fact probably in the strictest accord with the GPL - someone needs a program to be better, they hire some programmers to fix it. Red Hat will have to provide source to the corporate client, but they're not required to distribute anything to the public at large; they just do it anyway. Their only responsibility is to provide a copy of the source code to anyone they've given a binary to, and that is "on demand". If they only ever give the binary to their corporate client, they have to give the client source, and the same goes for the public release...as soon as they publicly release a binary they must publicly release source. Nothing says they have to publicly release the binary though.
And notice also that Red Hat doesn't do what Lindows is trying to do. Go to Red Hat's public FTP sometime and you'll notice that the current beta (I believe I linked to the right one there, it's skipjack right now, right?), includes a directory named "SRPMs". That's source for the beta, seeing as the GPL requires it to be available when they distribute binaries. That's exactly what Lindows is saying they don't have to do - their argument is "it's a beta release, we don't have to give anyone source for it". And that's wrong...the GPL requires them to give source to their beta users, and it's good sense anyway...it would help them find and eliminate bugs faster.
Well, subscriptions to allow use of the API could work. There's also the possibility of *gasp* licensing fees - you don't really think Google's income all comes from text ads, do you? They've been licensing their search to people for a good long while...
$ cd themes/gnome ../sawfish /usr/share/sawfish/0.30/themes
$ tar zxvf gnome-theme-ball.tar.gz
$ cd
$ tar zxvf sawfish-theme-ball.tar.gz
$ su
# cp *.tar.gz
# exit
$ gnomecc
Then I select the themes I want and off I go. Takes about two minutes. Of course, that's because I've got a collection of my favorite GTK and Sawfish themes (and wallpapers too actually) that I just keep lying around in tarballs for whenever I need them, but I always figured that was a sensible thing to do...
And with that said, GNOME 1.4 by default was a heck of a lot prettier than 1.2; that ugly old default GTK theme just needs to be buried and forgotten. And I don't know what 2.0 will look like by default, but I imagine it won't be too bad.
We see a small datacenter, with a couple geeks staffing it. Two large Italian Tony-Soprano type men walk in.
Geek: Can I help you?
Guys: No, we was just admiring this fine setup youse has here.
Geek: OK...
Guys: You know, it would be a shame if anything was to happen to this place...youse has such nice computers here.
Geek: Um...are you threatening me? Because I can call Security if you are.
Guys: No, no, we was just observing what a shame it would be if something bad happened to this here datacenter. Of course, that would never happen...especially if youse guys upgrade to Windows XP.
Geek: Wait a minute...are you from Microsoft?
Guys: In fact, we have to report to Mr. Gates soon...we can tell him for you that youse wants to upgrade. How many licenses does youse guys need?
Geek: We don't need Windows XP. Our current setup runs fine and upgrading would cost an obscene amount of money.
Guys: (Crack knuckles) Yeah, it would be a shame if anything were to happen to youse guys and these fine computers...
Fade to black, displaying text on the screen:
Tired of strong-arm upgrade tactics?
Step out of the dark, seedy world of Microsoft and into the light.
UNIX. The friendly alternative.
And of course, there's potential for a whole series of ads here...
Yes, KDE and GNOME have issues running on small systems. What this means is that if you don't want to deal with that you stick to software that does run well on small systems. For example, Enlightenment as the WM/desktop and plenty of GTK apps in the menus works just fine on "low-end" systems, in my experience.
It just seems to me that this is pointing out trivialities - on a low-end system, don't use resource-heavy software (and keep in mind that most of the *really* good stuff in Linux/UNIX is command-line anyway...terminal windows don't eat much in the way of resource unless it's Eterm with transparency and half a dozen other effects set). Tool == job.
AOL has blocked other companies access before successfully
Umm...Gaim? I'm signed on right now via the Oscar protocol, been online 2 days without interruption. So I guess you're right, AOL certainly seems to have done a good job of blocking it. Of course, Gaim probably doesn't really count as a "company"...