You are sort of missing the point. The beauty with rox scripting isn't that it's built in. It is that it uses the stuff already on the OS using just file conventions. Bash, Perl, Whatever. Because it does its gui stuff via standard filesystem conventions (put this icon in the directory to make it the icon for the directory, put this xml file in the directory for context menu stuff you can do with the directory), there is really NO learning curve, and you have the flexibility to use any number of system tools to achieve what you need to do as a system admin or user (ie, you don't need to be a programmer with in-depth knowledge of the filemanager and how it wants you to do things).
webex on OS/2 here. Gopher, of course, before that. Actually, my first experience with gopher was on Penn State's mainframe, as was my first experience with usenet and FTP servers.
I love rox. I wish it were the default FM for all of the environments. Why KDE and GNOME require so much crap running in the background is beyond me. Rox is elegant, and does all the GUI stuff you'd like a file manager to do (XDND, XDS), while giving you flexibility to interact with pretty much any program, even those that don't use any special communications pipes (ie, your selected files all go into the cut buffer automatically). The really nice thing is that you can very easily script the thing (for example, it's very easy to write a mail checking type script that can change a rox icon for a biff type program), and the fact that it adheres to the 'everything is a file' *nix philosophy. The mini buffer is great, as is the ability to do 'command line' type selections and filtering.
Rox + windowmaker makes a nice environment for me.
I've yet to be notified of a single update while running FF as a normal user on linux. Extensions being the exception, since those are user-based (if only there were a way to make THOSE take effect system wide, I'd be much happier setting things up for dad)
1) run a cron job with your favorite command line podcast grabbing tool 2) mount mp3 player as mass storage device 3) copy downloaded files to mp3 player (rsync is nice for this).
If you don't like the manual copy thing, then put the downloading software on the mp3 player itself, and have the cron job look for it (if it doesn't find it, then obviously your mp3 player is not mounted) to determine whether or not to download that night or not.
I sortof do this, but my car has a USB compatible head unit, so I don't bother doing it with my sansa (highly recommend, btw). I listen to NPR every day by copying to a cheap USB keydisk. I do manually download from the podcast archive for podrunner to the sansa for workouts though.
Using windoze? Sorry. Not my fault you chose to use such an inflexible tool, but I'm sure you can find all of the above in some form anyway.
An interesting concept is the sansa connect for streaming over wifi. I'd buy that in an instant if it wasn't locked down to using just Yahoo (let me use shoutcast streams, and I'd be all over it!)
Part of a good security strategy is to have off-site backups of important data. So, it is better to put stuff on Google's servers than it is to risk losing it when your system crashes, don't you think? For sensitive information, encrypt before storing (or store it on google as a truecrypt volume? I haven't used the gdrive thing, but if it can be mounted, then this seems the optimal solution).
Revolutionary technology is always weird, you don't have to walk then miles and think ten days to figure it out. It even more pathetic, trying to bend yourself out of shape, trying to imagine weirdness of said technology. Its been said too, that people never really accept new ideas, rather they die and newborn get to understand that the world way it is, is just normal.
What's so revolutionary about a web page with a database back end and some automated scripts that run to send out some notifications here and there?
This 'social networking' buzzword/fad is retarded.
How many people thought about this 12 years ago and have maintained separate online identities for Work and Recreation? I did.
How many people thought that their usenet posts from 1992 would be available on a search engine on the Internet (remember, this was pre-web) 15 years later? I certainly didn't. Searching on my name on google groups today makes me cringe. Wow, everybody back then put their real, unobfuscated email address in their.sig.
The speed of sound is different depending on the medium. The speed of sound where? (I didn't RTFA, just pointing out the lameness of the summary). Usually, when you talk about the speed of sound, it is relative to the density where you are observing your speed. So in space, having the solar wind be less than that (~0), does it then bounce back?:-)
What happened to mankind's fascination with space? These pictures are awesome to me not because of their scientific validity, but because they are a reflection of the way that mankind used to dream of the stars.
I blame personal computers and the Internet. Focus has shifted from artistic dreaming around future engineering (even to the point where you would use a computer not connected to a network, creativity with the computer was still much higher than it is today, since you came up with your own ideas, rather than looking it up on the internet) to instant messaging and web pages. I, too, am guilty of this as a guy who followed his childhood dreams up to even getting the degree in Aerospace Engineering, but then discovering the Internet, and ending up going down the network security analyst career path. It's still sort of creative, but nothing compared to what I dreamed I'd be designing when I was just a kid.
For visio, you could use OODraw, with some templates. Or use cad software with the same. I'm aware of Dia, but I've used it a couple of times and wasn't overly impressed.
I just listen to Internet Radio streams to learn about new stuff that I can buy. Guess exposure to stuff that RIAA doesn't market is something they don't like...
And what happens when somebody siphons money from your debit card? I'm sorry, but Cash leads to extra spending / shortages, and I'd rather pay with my debit card, thanks.
All that said, I'm much more worried about the kid taking my pizza order over the phone, or ringing up my gas stealing my number and using it for online purchases than I am having it 'hacked' from my own online purchases. There is also the local car wash that uses a wireless credit card reader. Breaking into that and sniffing it is quite tempting.
What I really care about is how it has changed on the linux platform (where I've never had an issue with it). Is it going to be an improvement there too?
I thought it was just a way of keeping a bunch of copies of the same spreadsheet in one file. Not sure why they call them tables instead of spreadsheets though:)
I don't want my house to be an investment. I want it to be a place to live. Finding one that isn't gigantic, and was AFFORDABLE in the area I want to be in has been a daunting task. I'm certainly glad that I didn't decide to buy some of the shitholes that I looked at in the first month that were actually $40-$90K more than the nice place I decided to buy. It's a good deal based on what else is on the market, but my friends just a few years ago all bought nicer places for about 2/3 of what I'm paying for mine:(
But I guess my place will go up in value when I'm ready to move in 5-10 years after some changes I want to make. But I'm not making those changes to sell the house. I'm making them to make it a better place for myself to live in. I still don't get the whole 'investment' thing with primary homes.
The worst part is that I am a single guy living alone. There really aren't ANY small houses being built or sold these days for people like me. It sucks. I was starting to get quite depressed about my prospects when I found the house I finally bought (although it, too, is more expensive than I would like it to be).
Yes, you set your MX records to be their servers, and then they forward to yours (on nonstandard ports, if necessary). This is exactly how I've done it with corporate mail for our own sub domains who wanted to host their own servers (we allowed it to happen, but only if our own servers were the primary MX to deal with spam / viruses / volume / large attachments / etc).
Outbound is just a smart relay with authentication (hence I strongly recommend you configure starttls on your mailserver). Again, you can use nonstandard ports, so this allows you to use dyndns as a smart host instead of comcast (bonus, the mail will actually be delivered in a timely manner!)
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You are sort of missing the point. The beauty with rox scripting isn't that it's built in. It is that it uses the stuff already on the OS using just file conventions. Bash, Perl, Whatever. Because it does its gui stuff via standard filesystem conventions (put this icon in the directory to make it the icon for the directory, put this xml file in the directory for context menu stuff you can do with the directory), there is really NO learning curve, and you have the flexibility to use any number of system tools to achieve what you need to do as a system admin or user (ie, you don't need to be a programmer with in-depth knowledge of the filemanager and how it wants you to do things).
webex on OS/2 here. Gopher, of course, before that. Actually, my first experience with gopher was on Penn State's mainframe, as was my first experience with usenet and FTP servers.
I love rox. I wish it were the default FM for all of the environments. Why KDE and GNOME require so much crap running in the background is beyond me. Rox is elegant, and does all the GUI stuff you'd like a file manager to do (XDND, XDS), while giving you flexibility to interact with pretty much any program, even those that don't use any special communications pipes (ie, your selected files all go into the cut buffer automatically). The really nice thing is that you can very easily script the thing (for example, it's very easy to write a mail checking type script that can change a rox icon for a biff type program), and the fact that it adheres to the 'everything is a file' *nix philosophy. The mini buffer is great, as is the ability to do 'command line' type selections and filtering.
Rox + windowmaker makes a nice environment for me.
Ha! I'm in the process of moving, and buried in one of my boxes of archived computer schtuff was my cuecat. I had forgotten that I even had one :)
Wish I could trade it in for a smart card or barcode reader/writer. I could definitely have more fun with that equipment.
I've yet to be notified of a single update while running FF as a normal user on linux. Extensions being the exception, since those are user-based (if only there were a way to make THOSE take effect system wide, I'd be much happier setting things up for dad)
1) run a cron job with your favorite command line podcast grabbing tool
2) mount mp3 player as mass storage device
3) copy downloaded files to mp3 player (rsync is nice for this).
If you don't like the manual copy thing, then put the downloading software on the mp3 player itself, and have the cron job look for it (if it doesn't find it, then obviously your mp3 player is not mounted) to determine whether or not to download that night or not.
I sortof do this, but my car has a USB compatible head unit, so I don't bother doing it with my sansa (highly recommend, btw). I listen to NPR every day by copying to a cheap USB keydisk. I do manually download from the podcast archive for podrunner to the sansa for workouts though.
Using windoze? Sorry. Not my fault you chose to use such an inflexible tool, but I'm sure you can find all of the above in some form anyway.
An interesting concept is the sansa connect for streaming over wifi. I'd buy that in an instant if it wasn't locked down to using just Yahoo (let me use shoutcast streams, and I'd be all over it!)
Part of a good security strategy is to have off-site backups of important data. So, it is better to put stuff on Google's servers than it is to risk losing it when your system crashes, don't you think? For sensitive information, encrypt before storing (or store it on google as a truecrypt volume? I haven't used the gdrive thing, but if it can be mounted, then this seems the optimal solution).
What's so revolutionary about a web page with a database back end and some automated scripts that run to send out some notifications here and there?
This 'social networking' buzzword/fad is retarded.
How many people thought that their usenet posts from 1992 would be available on a search engine on the Internet (remember, this was pre-web) 15 years later? I certainly didn't. Searching on my name on google groups today makes me cringe. Wow, everybody back then put their real, unobfuscated email address in their
what?
:-)
The speed of sound is different depending on the medium. The speed of sound where? (I didn't RTFA, just pointing out the lameness of the summary). Usually, when you talk about the speed of sound, it is relative to the density where you are observing your speed. So in space, having the solar wind be less than that (~0), does it then bounce back?
Why does your post make me think of Calvin's transmogrifier?
The Internet happened.
I blame personal computers and the Internet. Focus has shifted from artistic dreaming around future engineering (even to the point where you would use a computer not connected to a network, creativity with the computer was still much higher than it is today, since you came up with your own ideas, rather than looking it up on the internet) to instant messaging and web pages. I, too, am guilty of this as a guy who followed his childhood dreams up to even getting the degree in Aerospace Engineering, but then discovering the Internet, and ending up going down the network security analyst career path. It's still sort of creative, but nothing compared to what I dreamed I'd be designing when I was just a kid.
For visio, you could use OODraw, with some templates. Or use cad software with the same. I'm aware of Dia, but I've used it a couple of times and wasn't overly impressed.
Been to a movie theater lately?
You fergot the link
I just listen to Internet Radio streams to learn about new stuff that I can buy. Guess exposure to stuff that RIAA doesn't market is something they don't like...
The obvious solution, then, is nuclear powered cars.
And what happens when somebody siphons money from your debit card? I'm sorry, but Cash leads to extra spending / shortages, and I'd rather pay with my debit card, thanks.
All that said, I'm much more worried about the kid taking my pizza order over the phone, or ringing up my gas stealing my number and using it for online purchases than I am having it 'hacked' from my own online purchases. There is also the local car wash that uses a wireless credit card reader. Breaking into that and sniffing it is quite tempting.
What I really care about is how it has changed on the linux platform (where I've never had an issue with it). Is it going to be an improvement there too?
Isn't that called email?
I thought it was just a way of keeping a bunch of copies of the same spreadsheet in one file. Not sure why they call them tables instead of spreadsheets though :)
As someone who is buying his first house, Amen!
:(
I don't want my house to be an investment. I want it to be a place to live. Finding one that isn't gigantic, and was AFFORDABLE in the area I want to be in has been a daunting task. I'm certainly glad that I didn't decide to buy some of the shitholes that I looked at in the first month that were actually $40-$90K more than the nice place I decided to buy. It's a good deal based on what else is on the market, but my friends just a few years ago all bought nicer places for about 2/3 of what I'm paying for mine
But I guess my place will go up in value when I'm ready to move in 5-10 years after some changes I want to make. But I'm not making those changes to sell the house. I'm making them to make it a better place for myself to live in. I still don't get the whole 'investment' thing with primary homes.
The worst part is that I am a single guy living alone. There really aren't ANY small houses being built or sold these days for people like me. It sucks. I was starting to get quite depressed about my prospects when I found the house I finally bought (although it, too, is more expensive than I would like it to be).
Neener! I scored a set of jarts at a garage sale last month!
Yes, you set your MX records to be their servers, and then they forward to yours (on nonstandard ports, if necessary). This is exactly how I've done it with corporate mail for our own sub domains who wanted to host their own servers (we allowed it to happen, but only if our own servers were the primary MX to deal with spam / viruses / volume / large attachments / etc).
Outbound is just a smart relay with authentication (hence I strongly recommend you configure starttls on your mailserver). Again, you can use nonstandard ports, so this allows you to use dyndns as a smart host instead of comcast (bonus, the mail will actually be delivered in a timely manner!)