Weigh the costs of Health Care of yourself vs. your company.
This ultimately forced me to find a day job, just couldn't (and didn't) want to pay with a purchasing power of one person vs. the (relatively) cheap programs a real company offers.
Plus, if you're by yourself you'll talk yourself into the old "Well, I've been as healthy as a horse for three years" line and you'll wanna skimp, until one day you throw your back out lifting a rackmount UPS or you fall off a ladder in some godforsaken server room in the middle of the night.
Just think to yourself "Can I afford a $3000 bill if I get hosed?"
It's like this with every setting, in both the browser and mail/news.
The real fix is full roaming profiles so I can have a master profile on a server with all my bookmarks, cookies, mail and spam settings, etc., but it seems like that feature is still a ways off...
No, but I would expect someone who doesn't lock their car door, leaves the keys in with the engine running everytime they park somewhere should complain when the car gets stolen.
Argh, I get people at work complaining about this. "I called Comcast, and they're not doing anything about it, those jerks!"
Your ISPs job is to provide you an internet connection that you pay for - it is NOT their job to secure your computer for you.
If you're getting Messenger spam, then you probably don't know how to protect your computer, which means if I were you, I'd be worrying about what else on your box is 0wned.
Ms. Betterly says she refuses to send e-mails about adult fare, because it "disgraces society."
Yeah whatever - spammers claiming moral superiority over pornographers. What's next, the RIAA claiming it supports artists?
Thankfullly, Spamassassin means I don't have to deal with her garbage. Unfortunately it just hides the problem, but at least I get the satisfaction of a "fuck you" when it redirects to/dev/null.
If you've got an unfortunate friend stuck in Outlook, Cloudmark does a decent job of cleaning up the mess, and Mozilla's soon-to-be turned on anti-spam features are looking nice.
The messlab apt4rpm repository has had the evolution betas for quite some time now. I'm sure it will get updated in the next day or so to 1.2. I've been running it on my RH8 system since he set it up, it's the easiest way to upgrade evo.:)
(n) When electronic forms are designed to be completed on-line, the form shall allow people using assistive technology to access the information, field elements, and functionality required for completion and submission of the form, including all directions and cues.
Who wants to bet this page won't pass this requirement? I'm wondering if the user's assistive technology warns them to use IE.:)
It's been a law for a few years now, for government pages.
This is an article installing ALSA in Debian. ALSA is part of the kernel now and in the future hopefully articles like this won't be needed.
FWIW, I have installed Woody and RH8 on a lot of systems, including my laptop, where the sound worked out of the box with no config necessary. It's alot more newbie friendly in RH8, where most of the time sound worked when I loaded up GNOME without any sound config at all.
Usually on Woody all you need is to add the user to the sound group.
"I'll adapt or I'll discontinue. I'm not planning on becoming the major annoyance of the blogging world.... I'm not too worried my reputation. Marketing is all about being innovative, different, adaptive, taking risks and knowing how to use the technology. I'm trying to be all that."
Heh, it's funny that this guy can make this statement and expect to be taken seriously. It's even more pathetic that he actually thinks he's "innnovative".
They have to pick the biggest browsers and target their software for them.
You don't write web pages for browsers, you write web pages to standards.
It's not too hard, for inspiration, Wired News recently switched to full xhtml compliance with css. Their stuff works fine in any compliant browser.
People who complain about "I try to write to standards but all the browsers are broken", or "you can only do $feature on a certain browser" are lazy. That was a valid excuse 5 years ago, but not today. It is easier to write the stuff compliant to begin with than play around with stupid browser detection and NS4.x workarounds.
It's been in experimental since the release of Gnome2.
It's been waiting there while the Debian/Gnome guys figured out the transition scripts from 1.4 -> 2.0. Feel free to help out.
You'd be pretty pissed off if you were happily running 1.4 and one day it's 2.0 and all your desktop settings are gone, so, IMO they made the right decision.
Personally I have had no experience in Win32 or Linux software Development, but I still wonder...
Hi... I have no experience in nuclear power management, but I've watched the Simpsons, and I wonder if I can sit there and hit the button, over and over again...
Not the main issue on the article, but it is unfair to single someone as the inventor of XML, which is just a streamlined version of SGML which is an evolution from IBM's GML.
Why not? They list him as a co-inventor, meaning, he didn't do it all himself.
I wouldn't simplify the comparison between XML and SGML. That's like saying the invention of the printing press was insignificant, since people already had a written language.
XML makes SGML actually usable, and if this guy helped make it so, then he deserves a little bit of credit.
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I second that. The XMLRPC support in all the latest blog software has become a real boon.
There are tons of compatible editors and the like popping up, and the nice thing is that they're all compatible with any blog software using the API, not just Moveable Type.
I'd love to see the *Nukes and other web programs pick up XMLRPC, It will make the web more accessible to people who don't understand it if they can edit their website through a simple Word-like editor, and since MT and others come with W3C validated goodness, we don't have novices screwing up the web.
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Weigh the costs of Health Care of yourself vs. your company.
This ultimately forced me to find a day job, just couldn't (and didn't) want to pay with a purchasing power of one person vs. the (relatively) cheap programs a real company offers.
Plus, if you're by yourself you'll talk yourself into the old "Well, I've been as healthy as a horse for three years" line and you'll wanna skimp, until one day you throw your back out lifting a rackmount UPS or you fall off a ladder in some godforsaken server room in the middle of the night.
Just think to yourself "Can I afford a $3000 bill if I get hosed?"
Keep thinking MS is a community friendly company, see what happens.
Yeah, MBNAs online system works, good, and the Linuxfund Card rules ... of course, the debt still sucks. :(
It's like this with every setting, in both the browser and mail/news.
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The real fix is full roaming profiles so I can have a master profile on a server with all my bookmarks, cookies, mail and spam settings, etc., but it seems like that feature is still a ways off
Man, I hope KDE fixes this, we can't have people sniffing out my packets as I telnet over the public internet. Whew!
er, I mean shouldn't complain.
No, but I would expect someone who doesn't lock their car door, leaves the keys in with the engine running everytime they park somewhere should complain when the car gets stolen.
Argh, I get people at work complaining about this. "I called Comcast, and they're not doing anything about it, those jerks!"
Your ISPs job is to provide you an internet connection that you pay for - it is NOT their job to secure your computer for you.
If you're getting Messenger spam, then you probably don't know how to protect your computer, which means if I were you, I'd be worrying about what else on your box is 0wned.
Ms. Betterly says she refuses to send e-mails about adult fare, because it "disgraces society."
/dev/null.
Yeah whatever - spammers claiming moral superiority over pornographers. What's next, the RIAA claiming it supports artists?
Thankfullly, Spamassassin means I don't have to deal with her garbage. Unfortunately it just hides the problem, but at least I get the satisfaction of a "fuck you" when it redirects to
If you've got an unfortunate friend stuck in Outlook, Cloudmark does a decent job of cleaning up the mess, and Mozilla's soon-to-be turned on anti-spam features are looking nice.
The messlab apt4rpm repository has had the evolution betas for quite some time now. I'm sure it will get updated in the next day or so to 1.2. I've been running it on my RH8 system since he set it up, it's the easiest way to upgrade evo. :)
Daily GTK2 Mozilla builds are being provided by mozilla.org.
It won't strip the original message of HTML, but Mozilla Mail will display HTML messages as "plain text".
It works really well.
Since most of these work spyware programs search for IE specific history, you're still pretty "safe" using normal Mozilla.
Even the humans do this, seems to me like most of the tech support guys searching for 'inappropriate' material are looking in the IE history anyways.
Who wants to bet this page won't pass this requirement? I'm wondering if the user's assistive technology warns them to use IE.
It's been a law for a few years now, for government pages.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. ALSA is now in the 2.5 kernels.
This is an article installing ALSA in Debian. ALSA is part of the kernel now and in the future hopefully articles like this won't be needed.
FWIW, I have installed Woody and RH8 on a lot of systems, including my laptop, where the sound worked out of the box with no config necessary. It's alot more newbie friendly in RH8, where most of the time sound worked when I loaded up GNOME without any sound config at all.
Usually on Woody all you need is to add the user to the sound group.
Huh? I connect to IRC with Trillian all the time, even their free version connects to IRC.
Heh, let's put it to the test with the /. effect.
"I'll adapt or I'll discontinue. I'm not planning on becoming the major annoyance of the blogging world.... I'm not too worried my reputation. Marketing is all about being innovative, different, adaptive, taking risks and knowing how to use the technology. I'm trying to be all that."
Heh, it's funny that this guy can make this statement and expect to be taken seriously. It's even more pathetic that he actually thinks he's "innnovative".
They have to pick the biggest browsers and target their software for them.
You don't write web pages for browsers, you write web pages to standards.
It's not too hard, for inspiration, Wired News recently switched to full xhtml compliance with css. Their stuff works fine in any compliant browser.
People who complain about "I try to write to standards but all the browsers are broken", or "you can only do $feature on a certain browser" are lazy. That was a valid excuse 5 years ago, but not today. It is easier to write the stuff compliant to begin with than play around with stupid browser detection and NS4.x workarounds.
oscommerce.
Formelly The Exchange Project. Good stuff.
It's been in experimental since the release of Gnome2.
It's been waiting there while the Debian/Gnome guys figured out the transition scripts from 1.4 -> 2.0. Feel free to help out.
You'd be pretty pissed off if you were happily running 1.4 and one day it's 2.0 and all your desktop settings are gone, so, IMO they made the right decision.
Personally I have had no experience in Win32 or Linux software Development, but I still wonder...
... I have no experience in nuclear power management, but I've watched the Simpsons, and I wonder if I can sit there and hit the button, over and over again ...
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Not the main issue on the article, but it is unfair to single someone as the inventor of XML, which is just a streamlined version of SGML which is an evolution from IBM's GML.
Why not? They list him as a co-inventor, meaning, he didn't do it all himself.
I wouldn't simplify the comparison between XML and SGML. That's like saying the invention of the printing press was insignificant, since people already had a written language.
XML makes SGML actually usable, and if this guy helped make it so, then he deserves a little bit of credit.
I second that. The XMLRPC support in all the latest blog software has become a real boon.
There are tons of compatible editors and the like popping up, and the nice thing is that they're all compatible with any blog software using the API, not just Moveable Type.
I'd love to see the *Nukes and other web programs pick up XMLRPC, It will make the web more accessible to people who don't understand it if they can edit their website through a simple Word-like editor, and since MT and others come with W3C validated goodness, we don't have novices screwing up the web.