Why in the world would they want people to buy an Xbox, only to install Linux on it and never again be able to play another Xbox game on it???
Well, I think you still can, according to the Xbox-Linux FAQ:
Will I still be able to play games once Linux is on my hard disk?
That depends on the solution you choose. If you run Linux through the XBE bootloader on an Xbox with a modchip, there's a dual-boot solution. There are also "Live CD's" that make it possible possible to run Linux from a CD without having your hard disk modified at all. If you use the replacement ROM method, you would have to install both ROMs in parallel to be still able to run games.
Does anybody know of any good filters to block "dictionary" (brute force) attacks on an SMTP server? Could be on application level (like Postfix) or at firewall level. I guess there's a solution out there, but Googling didn't help me this time.
The security updates from security.debian.org exist for both testing and stable. That's why security.debian.org exists, so you can get the fixed packages through the "fast-lane".
I have this line in my/etc/apt/sources.list on my machine running testing: deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
The term "user friendly" is actually not used by the Human Computer Interaction Science anymore. Nowadays, it's more spoken of "useability" (not sure of it's spelling..)
Example: The Office Assistant in MS Office may be "user friendly", but is it making the software more useable? And the GNU software may not be user friendly for the general public, but it's very useable for the intended users.
Well, I guess I should file a bug report, but I didn't have time to do it. And I don't know how it works in the latest and greatest Mozilla, since I only have a dialup connection currently.
Right now I'm "just a web developer" who's expecting the software to work.. I mean, the CSS2 standard has been out there for some YEARS now.
Just an example from my last project, where I used quite a lot of JavaScript code.
It seems that Mozilla 1.0 RC1 has problems with obeying the selectedIndex property. The JavaScript reference tells us this: "If no option is selected, selectedIndex has a value of -1" But setting the property to either -1 or 0 in Mozilla makes no difference! And it all works in IE 5-6.
Also, the project is using CSS extensivly. Mozilla doesn't show anything but the background color, and it works perfect in IE. And both the CSS and HTML code passed the W3C validator without any errors or warnings. Why, Mozilla, why? What am I doing wrong here?
But anyone can put mp3's on a website, and if they're any good, people will find out about them and download them.
Are you really sure people will find out? How? What are the magic words I have to enter at Google to find music from this unknown, new band?
What mp3.com has is a directory of music, sorted in genres, pretty much like Yahoo. It's pretty easy to expose your music there, no need for a fancy homepage. And as an artist you can make some money if you're lucky enough to sell some of your music. You can't do that by uploading your music to Geocities...
For one thing, it excludes common small words like "to" "that" "the". Those words can be important when you're searching for a specific quote, say an old song or a line from a movie that you once heard.
IRC, the older CD players have their lenses made of glass. As the error correction circuits (that controls the laser beam) became better, they could replace the glass lense with a plastic one (IC:s are cheaper than glass...)
Well.. how many bytes do you think a couple of names take? 20 bytes per name times let's say 150 names.. Voila: 3 KB. This isn't about cars, it's about software.
Also, a lot of Free Software contains the authors names (yes - I'm talking about the binaries).
Read the first lines of/usr/src/linux/COPYING: NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
I just can't understund why all apps ported to Linux have to look like Windows. MS Office for Mac is using MacOS widgets, it doesn't have to look exactly the same as in Windows, but Staroffice and Kylix have to use Windows-like widgets. By using yet-another-widget we never can get a consistent looking user interface in X. I think a user cares more about a consistent system than an application that looks exactly the same on all platforms.
Why do they always have to invent new widget sets? Check out the search window... It's just bloatware to invent another widget set, just like StarOffice. Blah! Borland developers, there's something called GTK and QT... hello?
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Why in the world would they want people to buy an Xbox, only to install Linux on it and never again be able to play another Xbox game on it???
Well, I think you still can, according to the Xbox-Linux FAQ:
Will I still be able to play games once Linux is on my hard disk?
That depends on the solution you choose. If you run Linux through the XBE bootloader on an Xbox with a modchip, there's a dual-boot solution. There are also "Live CD's" that make it possible possible to run Linux from a CD without having your hard disk modified at all.
If you use the replacement ROM method, you would have to install both ROMs in parallel to be still able to run games.
Wake me up when they invent wireless power.
It's possible to use microwave links... Just don't stand in it's way or you'll get toasted.
Link to the Karamba screenshots. The site seems to be rather slow, however.
Does anybody know of any good filters to block "dictionary" (brute force) attacks on an SMTP server?
Could be on application level (like Postfix) or at firewall level. I guess there's a solution out there, but Googling didn't help me this time.
Well, last time I checked, there was a ftp client included in Windows (I don't think it's related to IE). Try "ftp" from the command line.
Well, no.
/etc/apt/sources.list on my machine running testing:
The security updates from security.debian.org exist for both testing and stable. That's why security.debian.org exists, so you can get the fixed packages through the "fast-lane".
I have this line in my
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
The term "user friendly" is actually not used by the Human Computer Interaction Science anymore.
Nowadays, it's more spoken of "useability" (not sure of it's spelling..)
Example: The Office Assistant in MS Office may be "user friendly", but is it making the software more useable? And the GNU software may not be user friendly for the general public, but it's very useable for the intended users.
One of the most accurate watches ever made was made in the 1700's by a man named John Harrison, in order to fix longitude.
Quite interesting story, actually. A quick search on Google turned up this page about how John Harrison solved the longitude problem. A true engineer!
Well, I guess I should file a bug report, but I didn't have time to do it. And I don't know how it works in the latest and greatest Mozilla, since I only have a dialup connection currently.
Right now I'm "just a web developer" who's expecting the software to work.. I mean, the CSS2 standard has been out there for some YEARS now.
Just an example from my last project, where I used quite a lot of JavaScript code.
It seems that Mozilla 1.0 RC1 has problems with obeying the selectedIndex property. The JavaScript reference tells us this: "If no option is selected, selectedIndex has a value of -1" But setting the property to either -1 or 0 in Mozilla makes no difference! And it all works in IE 5-6.
Also, the project is using CSS extensivly. Mozilla doesn't show anything but the background color, and it works perfect in IE. And both the CSS and HTML code passed the W3C validator without any errors or warnings. Why, Mozilla, why? What am I doing wrong here?
Actually, thanks to the Internet, I think I like Microsoft less than I would if I weren't connected.
According to this page, PHP is faster than ASP.
And even at ZDNet, PHP is a bit faster...
Descent 3 was released I think 1½-2 years ago, so it has not died yet.
But anyone can put mp3's on a website, and if they're any good, people will find out about them and download them.
Are you really sure people will find out? How? What are the magic words I have to enter at Google to find music from this unknown, new band?
What mp3.com has is a directory of music, sorted in genres, pretty much like Yahoo. It's pretty easy to expose your music there, no need for a fancy homepage. And as an artist you can make some money if you're lucky enough to sell some of your music. You can't do that by uploading your music to Geocities...
For one thing, it excludes common small words like "to" "that" "the". Those words can be important when you're searching for a specific quote, say an old song or a line from a movie that you once heard.
There's a solution.
The server seems slashdotted, so I couldn't read the article.
But it sounds a bit good to be true. We can always hope...
Sorry.. I don't think so..
When (if?) Linux finally gets a journalling filesystem it might enjoy the same filesystem performance/reliability that FreeBSD already has.
Linux had a journalled filesystem for quite some time now. And as of 2.4.1 it's bundled with the official kernel.
We have this tax in Sweden too, IIRC.
Or just use this: /usr/src
/usr/src
/usr/src that is) goes automagically!
Place the Linux-patches in
# cd
# linux/scripts/patch-kernel
And the patching up to the latest release (that you have in
IRC, the older CD players have their lenses made of glass. As the error correction circuits (that controls the laser beam) became better, they could replace the glass lense with a plastic one (IC:s are cheaper than glass...)
Well.. how many bytes do you think a couple of names take? 20 bytes per name times let's say 150 names.. Voila: 3 KB. This isn't about cars, it's about software.
Also, a lot of Free Software contains the authors names (yes - I'm talking about the binaries).
Read the first lines of /usr/src/linux/COPYING:
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
I just can't understund why all apps ported to Linux have to look like Windows. MS Office for Mac is using MacOS widgets, it doesn't have to look exactly the same as in Windows, but Staroffice and Kylix have to use Windows-like widgets. By using yet-another-widget we never can get a consistent looking user interface in X. I think a user cares more about a consistent system than an application that looks exactly the same on all platforms.
Why do they always have to invent new widget sets?
Check out the search window...
It's just bloatware to invent another widget set, just like StarOffice. Blah!
Borland developers, there's something called GTK and QT... hello?