It isn't the opposite as sending word attachments, not is it the same. It's a bug in outlook express. I've seen it myself. Outlook incorrectly interperts your text message as an attachment and displays it as such. Outlook isn't totally RCF complient. This isn't at all suprising.
When users are arbitrarily excluded and abused in the name of proprietary software? How many Outlook badly formated HTML/word/rtf e-mail's must we put up with before we scream enough! (Well, I just ignore them myself.)
The user isn't doing this intentionaly (well, except for the webTV thing.) and who he allows on his mailing list is up to him. You don't like it, start your own mailing list.
Don't go blowing a trivial issue out of proportion.
My Grandma got a new computer from the family for Christmas. Nice new Dell box with WinXP pre-installed. Now Grandma's last computer was running DOS, with automenu. (automenu would run programs for you, and when you exited the program, it would dump you back into automenu. She never used the command line.)
Anyway, try and answer this question:
When do I click once, and when do I double click?
Doesn't seem like a hard one, but...
single click web links.
click once to select icons on desktop
click once for start menu
click once to run a program on the start menu
double click to run a program from it's icon on the desktop...
and it goes on and on...
If MS created good UI, you would be able to answer that question in four sentences at most...
I got my Linux version of Quake3 from a retail store, just after it was released. (yes, the actual linux version with tin box and everything...)
The store clerk said they couldn't keep it on the self. Yup, they were selling like, 5 copies a week.
And this was at the Mall of America, not a low trafic mall by any means.
Putting out a retail version of Quake3 was a nice test, obviously it told them that the market wasn't ready yet. But every now and then you do see Loki games on store shelves. MicroCenter had them for awile. I've yet to see newer titles like Tribes 2 show up though.
If it weren't for the freaking regressions happening in Wine, I would be running 100% in Linux right now.
Wine has regressions because it is currenty in a "developer only release" state. The Wine team is making the 1.0 push, and when they hit 1.0, you shouldn't see regressions in that branch.
Poke around on www.winehq.com, and fine the roadmap, change log, etc. to see where they've been, where they're going, and where they are.
Anyone who can come up with something that will pass Money Abuse Tests has an amazing product.
Like for the US dollar, a machine rolls up the money into a very tight cylinder, then crushes it flat. The holograms that were being tested were totally destroyed by this test, so they don't appear on US money.
I suppose I've just violated the DMCA by providing fairly vague instructions on how to circumvent this so-called protection (as in racket) device.
But are you? They call it copy protection, but is it really? Your CD players do similar stuff, so they are circumventing the copy protection.
So if you're CD player does it, what's wrong with adapting your computers hardware and software to do it?
I'm sure there are plenty of loopholes in this argument. It just feels like they're degrading the quality, calling it copy protection, and we can't do anything about it becasue of the DMCA because it's "copy protection."
So what, prove to the courts that what they are doing does nothing to prevent copying?
Instead of the normal round of complaints, sometimes insightful comments, and mostly junivile comments, why not get involved and subimt something. Information on the United States v. Microsoft Setlement
The Tunney Act sets forth procedures that must be followed whenever the United States proposes to settle a civil antitrust suit through entry of a consent decree. Pursuant to the Tunney Act, members of the public have an opportunity to comment on the proposed settlement before it is accepted by the court.
1> Easy install? Umm...hello. You can grab the rpm's for SuSe, RedHat, Mandrake. rpm -i is hard? For the rest of us, grab the tarballs. Extract and make install, a little pull from your spice weasel, and bam! Debian (woody, sid) even has the packages nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src that will build debian packages from the downloaded tarballs)
2> In general, those who have compiled stuff themselves experience less problems than those using the biniary packages.
3> What features? read the docs. There's plenty of features there. FSAA, VSynctoBlank, Shadow Cursor, TV Out, TwinView, all there. What's missing? I should have modded you as flamebait instead of commenting, but oh well.
Well, after locking my keys in my brand new car (2001 Focus, did the 0% interest on GM cars get you too?) I can tell you I'm very happy that only the keys to the car can start it. Once the lock smith arrived it took him only about 45 seconds to use his tool to hit the power lock button. Nothing special, just a bent piece of metal.
A car theif has the advantage of not having to mind the finish.
Will I experience any interruptions with my AT&T Broadband high-speed cable Internet service?
Your AT&T Broadband high-speed cable Internet service connectivity, e-mail and Personal Web pages will not be affected by Excite@Home's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. However, your home.excite.com home page may become temporarily unavailable.
What will happen to my high-speed cable Internet service if AT&T Broadband's proposal to purchase the Excite@Home network is not approved?
If the proposal to purchase the Excite@Home network is not approved, your home page content may be temporarily unavailable, but you will still have access to your e-mail and the Internet.
What about the iPod? I'm not up on it's specs, but plug it into your firewire and it shows up as a hard drive right? (On Mac's anyway;) And the firmware on the thing is upgradable, so maybe, just maybe, it will suppot ogg sometime in the future. Or somebody will hack ogg support for it.
I much perfer the TASP to the phaser on stun setting.
A device which can be used from close-range to stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain. Tasps are primarily used by practical jokers who "make someone's day" from hiding.
He says there is too many Distros He's not stating anything new here...
When hes basing a distro off of a distro called Debian!!! Progeny is no longer basing a distro off of Debian. Progen Debian is discontinued. But I still suggest it to those who are new to Linux and are looking for something resonably up to date, easy to install, and stable. Yesh, every now and then the installer will faill miserably and someone will get all pissed about it on/. or a LUG list, but what about the people who are quietly running happily along?
Anyway, Progeny is a great steping stone between Potato and Woody. You get your XFree4, apt-get goodness, GNOME 1.4, what more could you ask for? KDE? Well, the KDE packages in Progeny are in a sad shape, but KDE is really easy to compile from source. You might learn something
Sig: No games in linux? Only you CAN change that! The answer is http://www.transgaming.com
Naw, there are better answers. But that's off topic so we won't be going there...:)
You can burn a perfect copy of a CD for your friend. Your friend can burn a perfect copy for his/her friend. And so on and so forth.
In this case, there will be some quality loss over time, but it's minimal.
Or,
You can make a near perfect digital copy of the file and e-mail it to your friend. Your friend can e-mail and exact copy of that file to a friend, etc etc...
In this case, quality loss happens once. Every copy of the copy is the same.
With a tape and consumer level equipment, quality degrades a bit faster, but it's mainly a media issue. And it takes longer to copy a tape.
As tapes and CD's are physical, there're harder to distribute and easier to control compared to mp3s...
The differences aren't huge, but they are there and worth nothing. It's the ease and scale of the digital media that has them concerned. My brother and girlfriend could do it without reading documentation. My dad could do it if he sat down and read a manual.
Blah...I really lost focus with this post so I'm calling it quits.
I'll bet a lot of Sun employees will be surreptiously buying it so they can effectively communicate with the outside (MSFT) world...
You won't see it on Solaris. Ever (unless maybe while on a LSD type trip Codeweavers ports Wine to Solaras x86.)
Wine is tighed as tightly to x86 as Windows is. But Wine does have features for setting up a wine server type thing for other platforms. I don't know the full details though.
But anything you run under wine is just an X11 client, so export DISPLAY=etc:0 and you're off and running...
All other TV questions should be sent to viewer_relations@discovery.com. For a quicker response to your television questions, please call viewer relations at 1-888-404-5969.
Don't file your complaint here...look up the contact info and let the networks know what you think. Anyway, I have a letter to write...
Worse yet, every episode of Junkyard Wars that I've seen recently includes a a full banner across the bottom of the picture. (about 1/8 of the screen?) If that wasn't bad enough, it's animated. So you have some piece of junk that flys across the screen and crashes (with sound!) into the corner.
It's really annoying, not only does it distract you, but the crash noise completely over powers the audio.
With a newer version of Lynx (I'm using Lynx 2.8.4rel.1, doesn't work in 2.8.3rel.1):
put the following in ~/msn
# Command logfile created by Lynx 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001)
key q
key y
# End command logfile
Then your lynx command is:
lynx -cmd_script=~/msn -accept_all_cookies -useragent="Mozilla/4.0(compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Linux; Heh, IE6.0 doesn't run on Linux!)" www.msn.com
Lynx will connect to msn, load the page, then exit. Wash, rinse, repeat
Have more fun an create a shell script to spew different useragents.
Have cron run it every five minutes or so. Nothing wrong with reloading a portal site every 5 minutes.
Slashdot Mirror
The Noid! Domino's Pizza mascot of the 80's had his very own NES game.
It isn't the opposite as sending word attachments, not is it the same. It's a bug in outlook express. I've seen it myself. Outlook incorrectly interperts your text message as an attachment and displays it as such. Outlook isn't totally RCF complient. This isn't at all suprising.
When users are arbitrarily excluded and abused in the name of proprietary software? How many Outlook badly formated HTML/word/rtf e-mail's must we put up with before we scream enough! (Well, I just ignore them myself.)
The user isn't doing this intentionaly (well, except for the webTV thing.) and who he allows on his mailing list is up to him. You don't like it, start your own mailing list.
Don't go blowing a trivial issue out of proportion.
but MS makes good GUI's
What? Oh my...
My Grandma got a new computer from the family for Christmas. Nice new Dell box with WinXP pre-installed. Now Grandma's last computer was running DOS, with automenu. (automenu would run programs for you, and when you exited the program, it would dump you back into automenu. She never used the command line.)
Anyway, try and answer this question:
When do I click once, and when do I double click?
Doesn't seem like a hard one, but...
single click web links.
click once to select icons on desktop
click once for start menu
click once to run a program on the start menu
double click to run a program from it's icon on the desktop...
and it goes on and on...
If MS created good UI, you would be able to answer that question in four sentences at most...
I got my Linux version of Quake3 from a retail store, just after it was released. (yes, the actual linux version with tin box and everything...)
:)
The store clerk said they couldn't keep it on the self. Yup, they were selling like, 5 copies a week.
And this was at the Mall of America, not a low trafic mall by any means.
Putting out a retail version of Quake3 was a nice test, obviously it told them that the market wasn't ready yet. But every now and then you do see Loki games on store shelves. MicroCenter had them for awile. I've yet to see newer titles like Tribes 2 show up though.
Oh well, TuxGames is a great store.
If it weren't for the freaking regressions happening in Wine, I would be running 100% in Linux right now.
Wine has regressions because it is currenty in a "developer only release" state. The Wine team is making the 1.0 push, and when they hit 1.0, you shouldn't see regressions in that branch.
Poke around on www.winehq.com, and fine the roadmap, change log, etc. to see where they've been, where they're going, and where they are.
Anyone who can come up with something that will pass Money Abuse Tests has an amazing product.
Like for the US dollar, a machine rolls up the money into a very tight cylinder, then crushes it flat. The holograms that were being tested were totally destroyed by this test, so they don't appear on US money.
I suppose I've just violated the DMCA by providing fairly vague instructions on how to circumvent this so-called protection (as in racket) device.
But are you? They call it copy protection, but is it really? Your CD players do similar stuff, so they are circumventing the copy protection.
So if you're CD player does it, what's wrong with adapting your computers hardware and software to do it?
I'm sure there are plenty of loopholes in this argument. It just feels like they're degrading the quality, calling it copy protection, and we can't do anything about it becasue of the DMCA because it's "copy protection."
So what, prove to the courts that what they are doing does nothing to prevent copying?
Instead of the normal round of complaints, sometimes insightful comments, and mostly junivile comments, why not get involved and subimt something.
Information on the United States v. Microsoft Setlement
The Tunney Act sets forth procedures that must be followed whenever the United States proposes to settle a civil antitrust suit through entry of a consent decree. Pursuant to the Tunney Act, members of the public have an opportunity to comment on the proposed settlement before it is accepted by the court.
There, all the linkage you need.
1> Easy install? Umm...hello. You can grab the rpm's for SuSe, RedHat, Mandrake. rpm -i is hard? For the rest of us, grab the tarballs. Extract and make install, a little pull from your spice weasel, and bam! Debian (woody, sid) even has the packages nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src that will build debian packages from the downloaded tarballs)
2> In general, those who have compiled stuff themselves experience less problems than those using the biniary packages.
3> What features? read the docs. There's plenty of features there. FSAA, VSynctoBlank, Shadow Cursor, TV Out, TwinView, all there. What's missing? I should have modded you as flamebait instead of commenting, but oh well.
Well, after locking my keys in my brand new car (2001 Focus, did the 0% interest on GM cars get you too?) I can tell you I'm very happy that only the keys to the car can start it. Once the lock smith arrived it took him only about 45 seconds to use his tool to hit the power lock button. Nothing special, just a bent piece of metal.
A car theif has the advantage of not having to mind the finish.
Will I experience any interruptions with my AT&T Broadband high-speed cable Internet service?
Your AT&T Broadband high-speed cable Internet service connectivity, e-mail and Personal Web pages will not be affected by Excite@Home's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. However, your home.excite.com home page may become temporarily unavailable.
What will happen to my high-speed cable Internet service if AT&T Broadband's proposal to purchase the Excite@Home network is not approved?
If the proposal to purchase the Excite@Home network is not approved, your home page content may be temporarily unavailable, but you will still have access to your e-mail and the Internet.
What about the iPod? I'm not up on it's specs, but plug it into your firewire and it shows up as a hard drive right? (On Mac's anyway ;) And the firmware on the thing is upgradable, so maybe, just maybe, it will suppot ogg sometime in the future. Or somebody will hack ogg support for it.
I much perfer the TASP to the phaser on stun setting.
A device which can be used from close-range to stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain. Tasps are primarily used by practical jokers who "make someone's day" from hiding.
Ringworld by Larry Niven
He says there is too many Distros
/. or a LUG list, but what about the people who are quietly running happily along?
:)
He's not stating anything new here...
When hes basing a distro off of a distro called Debian!!!
Progeny is no longer basing a distro off of Debian. Progen Debian is discontinued. But I still suggest it to those who are new to Linux and are looking for something resonably up to date, easy to install, and stable. Yesh, every now and then the installer will faill miserably and someone will get all pissed about it on
Anyway, Progeny is a great steping stone between Potato and Woody. You get your XFree4, apt-get goodness, GNOME 1.4, what more could you ask for? KDE? Well, the KDE packages in Progeny are in a sad shape, but KDE is really easy to compile from source. You might learn something
Sig: No games in linux? Only you CAN change that! The answer is http://www.transgaming.com
Naw, there are better answers. But that's off topic so we won't be going there...
The funniest part of the movie: The Monsters, Inc. Teaser with Sully and Mike playing charades.
:)
Mike: Movie, 2 words...
Sully points to underarm
Mike: Stinky, smelly, Hairy!
Sully grabs potted plant...
Mike: The Sound of Music!
If anyone sees this teaser online, post URL. This teaser could almost be a Pixar short.
You didn't mention Fireware! :)
There, all the Apple junkies can be happy now.
How do you get hi res screen shots from a game designed to run on a device that uses a TV for output? Smells fishy, but that could just be my lunch.
No, it's different, sorta...here's how.
You can burn a perfect copy of a CD for your friend. Your friend can burn a perfect copy for his/her friend. And so on and so forth.
In this case, there will be some quality loss over time, but it's minimal.
Or,
You can make a near perfect digital copy of the file and e-mail it to your friend. Your friend can e-mail and exact copy of that file to a friend, etc etc...
In this case, quality loss happens once. Every copy of the copy is the same.
With a tape and consumer level equipment, quality degrades a bit faster, but it's mainly a media issue. And it takes longer to copy a tape.
As tapes and CD's are physical, there're harder to distribute and easier to control compared to mp3s...
The differences aren't huge, but they are there and worth nothing. It's the ease and scale of the digital media that has them concerned. My brother and girlfriend could do it without reading documentation. My dad could do it if he sat down and read a manual.
Blah...I really lost focus with this post so I'm calling it quits.
I'll bet a lot of Sun employees will be surreptiously buying it so they can effectively communicate with the outside (MSFT) world...
You won't see it on Solaris. Ever (unless maybe while on a LSD type trip Codeweavers ports Wine to Solaras x86.)
Wine is tighed as tightly to x86 as Windows is. But Wine does have features for setting up a wine server type thing for other platforms. I don't know the full details though.
But anything you run under wine is just an X11 client, so export DISPLAY=etc:0 and you're off and running...
OK, got myself going. :) Went and looked:
All other TV questions should be sent to viewer_relations@discovery.com. For a quicker response to your television questions, please call viewer relations at 1-888-404-5969.
Don't file your complaint here...look up the contact info and let the networks know what you think. Anyway, I have a letter to write...
Worse yet, every episode of Junkyard Wars that I've seen recently includes a a full banner across the bottom of the picture. (about 1/8 of the screen?) If that wasn't bad enough, it's animated. So you have some piece of junk that flys across the screen and crashes (with sound!) into the corner.
It's really annoying, not only does it distract you, but the crash noise completely over powers the audio.
With a newer version of Lynx (I'm using Lynx 2.8.4rel.1, doesn't work in 2.8.3rel.1):
put the following in ~/msn
# Command logfile created by Lynx 2.8.4rel.1 (17 Jul 2001)
key q
key y
# End command logfile
Then your lynx command is:
lynx -cmd_script=~/msn -accept_all_cookies -useragent="Mozilla/4.0(compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Linux; Heh, IE6.0 doesn't run on Linux!)" www.msn.com
Lynx will connect to msn, load the page, then exit. Wash, rinse, repeat
Have more fun an create a shell script to spew different useragents.
Have cron run it every five minutes or so. Nothing wrong with reloading a portal site every 5 minutes.
telnet popserver.msn.com 110
user user
pass password
list
Replace popserver.msn.com with the actual pop3 server. I have no clue what it actually is.
before users figure out the IP's of the RIAA's smothering servers and firewall connections from those machines to /dev/null?