"I love Debian, but have never tried Libranet. (The machine I'm typing on was installed with a Stormix CD; my laptop started as a Progeny machine...) Since we seem to be running out of other Debian-based distros, looks like Libranet is my next choice.:) "
Why add superfluous comments ? You have added nothing of any value whatsoever.
That's just the start. Check out what the NHRA has done to confuse the regulation of motor sport and then think " do we really need methanol powered laptops?"
Next time you have to work flat out because of a dos attack ask yourself the same question. Undoubtedly someone is having fun at your expense.
Screwing headers like this is not immoral , it isn't right , it's just stupid.
I suppose spam is also acceptable under the same premise...."because I could ". This sort of thing is damaging and should be discouraged - it is certainly not newsworthy.
Snuck in, right at the end of the article "Unfortunately, the overlords of retail and radio didn't attend the Future of Music conference, an inexplicable omission"
Combine this with not having any musician representation and it sounds like a big piss-in-each-others-pocket kind of show. Not to mention pointless.
And what about that old business axiom
"The customer is always right " . The first one of these big companies with the foresight to involve all the industry players in a concerted effort to listen to consumers and give them what they want will be in for some success.
Aussie classifications for film and literature HAVE SUCCEEDED. We can watch and read pretty much what we want, with commonsense restrictions that limit the availability of this material based on age.
This attempt at 'net laws is aimed to appease the ultra conservatives , whilst being recognised as generally ineffective and useless.
They limit the publication and dissemination of information - but not the perusal or production. You can still make and peruse what you want - just don't publish it to a audience that is deemed restricted - (ie) those under 18. The www is uncensored , therefore is deemed an unsuitable publishing meduim for this sort of stuff in Australia.
The author in the SMH article has missed the point - but the content will generate letters to the editor , wanker angst and generally help to maintain newspaper circulation.
There was a recent chance to start classifying information based on this sort of content - much the same as film classifications - with the recent new top level domains...but we are stuck with.biz and.info....thanks for nothing.
I used one of these for a decade and yes , they are a super reliable set up.
Unless you tried to use that complete screw up of an application 20/20 . Does anyone else remember that botched attempt at a spreadsheet app ?
I recall 20/20 bringing down the HP3000 at least twice before it was dumped.
What people tend to forget is that the 3000 and the OS were reliable and yes , I can recall instances of my terminal coming 'back up' right where I left off....but the 3000's that are around today are largely accessed via PC terminal apps (reflection etc) thereby exposing reliability to all the vagaries of MS desktops and all the network glitches that come with the 'No dumb terminal' approach.
From an end user perspective anyway..what is the point of all that uptime if you can't connect due to other crap getting in the way ?
Text of Osama bin Laden's taped statement, aired on an Arab television station after the US and British strikes. The remarks refer to the September 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, but appear to have been made before today's strikes.
"I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger.
There is America, hit by God in one of its softest spots. Its greatest buildings were destroyed, thank God for that. There is America, full of fear from its north to its south, from its west to its east. Thank God for that.
What America is tasting now, is something insignificant compared to what we have tasted for scores of years. Our nation (the Islamic world) has been tasting this humiliation and this degradation for more than 80 years. Its sons are killed, its blood is shed, its sanctuaries are attacked, and no-one hears and no-one heeds.
When God blessed one of the groups of Islam, vanguards of Islam, they destroyed America. I pray to God to elevate their status and bless them.
Millions of innocent children are being killed as I speak. They are being killed in Iraq without committing any sins and we don't hear condemnation or a fatwa from the rulers. In these days, Israeli tanks infest Palestine - in Jenin, Ramallah, Rafah, Beit Jalla, and other places in the land of Islam, and we don't hear anyone raising his voice or moving a limb.
When the sword comes down (on America), after 80 years, hypocrisy rears its ugly head. They deplore and they lament for those killers, who have abused the blood, honour, and sanctuaries of Muslims. The least that can be said about those people, is that they are debauched. They have followed injustice. They supported the butcher over the victim, the oppressor over the innocent child. May God show them His wrath and give them what they deserve.
I say that the situation is clear and obvious. After this event, after the senior officials have spoken in America, starting with the head of infidels worldwide, Bush, and those with him. They have come out in force with their men and have turned even the countries that belong to Islam to this treachery, and they want to wag their tail at God, to fight Islam, to suppress people in the name of terrorism.
When people at the ends of the earth, Japan, were killed by their hundreds of thousands, young and old, it was not considered a war crime, it is something that has justification. Millions of children in Iraq, is something that has justification. But when they lose dozens of people in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam (capitals of Kenya and Tanzania, where US embassies were bombed in 1998), Iraq was struck and Afghanistan was struck. Hypocrisy stood in force behind the head of infidels worldwide, behind the cowards of this age, America and those who are with it.
These events have divided the whole world into two sides. The side of believers and the side of infidels, may God keep you away from them. Every Muslim has to rush to make his religion victorious. The winds of faith have come. The winds of change have come to eradicate oppression from the island of Muhammad, peace be upon him.
To America, I say only a few words to it and its people. I swear by God, who has elevated the skies without pillars, neither America nor the people who live in it will dream of security before we live it in Palestine, and not before all the infidel armies leave the land of Muhammad, peace by upon him.
God is great, may pride be with Islam. May peace and God's mercy be upon you."
The stylus that came with my Visor Deluxe scratched the screen. Replacement tip ? - no way!I could only buy replacements in packs of 5 . No response from Handspring on this issue. So I buy a 5 pack.
Inside a week and the screen has new scatches. The stylus tips are made of a harder plastic than those from palm. Of course , I want something that actually fits the device , so my options are limited.
My advice - don't buy a visor . In all other areas the device is great.
This is a great example of how far we haven't come at all. 10 years to develop and exploit and what have we got.... thousands of more users looking at the same crap on thousands more sites - not better or different - just more.
Check out those screenshots of the first browser-editor-wp extension. We've hardly moved at all.
Slashdot Mirror
"I love Debian, but have never tried Libranet. (The machine I'm typing on was installed with a Stormix CD; my laptop started as a Progeny machine...) Since we seem to be running out of other Debian-based distros, looks like Libranet is my next choice. :) "
Why add superfluous comments ? You have added nothing of any value whatsoever.
The shredders are kept on idle .. waiting for the next assignment.
How many classes can we tolerate ?
A/Gas
Nitro
Top alcohol
Top Fueller
That's just the start. Check out what the NHRA has done to confuse the regulation of motor sport and then think " do we really need methanol powered laptops?"
Why didn't anyone think of this before ?
Next time you have to work flat out because of a dos attack ask yourself the same question. Undoubtedly someone is having fun at your expense.
...."because I could ". This sort of thing is damaging and should be discouraged - it is certainly not newsworthy.
Screwing headers like this is not immoral , it isn't right , it's just stupid.
I suppose spam is also acceptable under the same premise
gnutella has nothing to do with GNU.
Now just think of the article we'd be reading if IIS had been included in XP Home....
...and with a simple click an unwitting user will openn up their PC to the world. Evil MS has yet more holes/flaws....
Snuck in, right at the end of the article "Unfortunately, the overlords of retail and radio didn't attend the Future of Music conference, an inexplicable omission"
Combine this with not having any musician representation and it sounds like a big piss-in-each-others-pocket kind of show. Not to mention pointless.
And what about that old business axiom
"The customer is always right " . The first one of these big companies with the foresight to involve all the industry players in a concerted effort to listen to consumers and give them what they want will be in for some success.
Mac versions don't have the spyware.
It doesn't require that much effort to work out really. It's what most people want.
Aussie classifications for film and literature HAVE SUCCEEDED. We can watch and read pretty much what we want, with commonsense restrictions that limit the availability of this material based on age.
.biz and .info ....thanks for nothing.
This attempt at 'net laws is aimed to appease the ultra conservatives , whilst being recognised as generally ineffective and useless.
They limit the publication and dissemination of information - but not the perusal or production. You can still make and peruse what you want - just don't publish it to a audience that is deemed restricted - (ie) those under 18. The www is uncensored , therefore is deemed an unsuitable publishing meduim for this sort of stuff in Australia.
The author in the SMH article has missed the point - but the content will generate letters to the editor , wanker angst and generally help to maintain newspaper circulation.
There was a recent chance to start classifying information based on this sort of content - much the same as film classifications - with the recent new top level domains...but we are stuck with
"5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5.": Andy Tanenbaum : comp.os.minix : 1992-01-30
.... google has been promoting this archive for a while.
Creativity is no substitute for knowing what you're doing
Oh yeah
I reckon his site can handle the superfluous hits.
How much time can you waste hitting the delete key on your mail client ?
..micropayments? It's hardly difficult identify spam when you see it.
..it's no big deal.
What does this bloke want to get paid in
I've never understood all the indignation and self righteousness that spam generates. Delete it and move on
It looks like a Palm , only chunkier.
It runs very little software and won't sync.
A linux PDA that doesn't even attempt to sync with anything other than Windows and then fails anyway ?
Seems like a pointless device. Why try to emulate a palm anyway ? If you're going to take them on try to be BETTER.
Seems like a joke device. I wonder if the reviewer would be favourable at all if it wasn't a linux based device ?
I used one of these for a decade and yes , they are a super reliable set up.
..what is the point of all that uptime if you can't connect due to other crap getting in the way ?
Unless you tried to use that complete screw up of an application 20/20 . Does anyone else remember that botched attempt at a spreadsheet app ?
I recall 20/20 bringing down the HP3000 at least twice before it was dumped.
What people tend to forget is that the 3000 and the OS were reliable and yes , I can recall instances of my terminal coming 'back up' right where I left off....but the 3000's that are around today are largely accessed via PC terminal apps (reflection etc) thereby exposing reliability to all the vagaries of MS desktops and all the network glitches that come with the 'No dumb terminal' approach.
From an end user perspective anyway
nice link ... just who are we voting for ?
You are an elitist bullshit artist.
It would appear that most people aren't bothered at all.
Current Issue of Time (8 Oct):
68% of US citizens support wire-tapping without court approval
59% support holding terrorist suspects in jail without bail or time limits
55% support e-mail intercepts/scanning
57% support ID cards issued by Govt that must be carried
The point is not that athiests don't believe in God , it is that they believe in anything.
[insert: car , dog , fitness , career , OS , politics , country etc etc ]
- WORLD
Text of Osama bin Laden's statement
Text of Osama bin Laden's taped statement, aired on an Arab television station after the US and British strikes. The remarks refer to the September 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, but appear to have been made before today's strikes.
"I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger.
There is America, hit by God in one of its softest spots. Its greatest buildings were destroyed, thank God for that. There is America, full of fear from its north to its south, from its west to its east. Thank God for that.
What America is tasting now, is something insignificant compared to what we have tasted for scores of years. Our nation (the Islamic world) has been tasting this humiliation and this degradation for more than 80 years. Its sons are killed, its blood is shed, its sanctuaries are attacked, and no-one hears and no-one heeds.
When God blessed one of the groups of Islam, vanguards of Islam, they destroyed America. I pray to God to elevate their status and bless them.
Millions of innocent children are being killed as I speak. They are being killed in Iraq without committing any sins and we don't hear condemnation or a fatwa from the rulers. In these days, Israeli tanks infest Palestine - in Jenin, Ramallah, Rafah, Beit Jalla, and other places in the land of Islam, and we don't hear anyone raising his voice or moving a limb.
When the sword comes down (on America), after 80 years, hypocrisy rears its ugly head. They deplore and they lament for those killers, who have abused the blood, honour, and sanctuaries of Muslims. The least that can be said about those people, is that they are debauched. They have followed injustice. They supported the butcher over the victim, the oppressor over the innocent child. May God show them His wrath and give them what they deserve.
I say that the situation is clear and obvious. After this event, after the senior officials have spoken in America, starting with the head of infidels worldwide, Bush, and those with him. They have come out in force with their men and have turned even the countries that belong to Islam to this treachery, and they want to wag their tail at God, to fight Islam, to suppress people in the name of terrorism.
When people at the ends of the earth, Japan, were killed by their hundreds of thousands, young and old, it was not considered a war crime, it is something that has justification. Millions of children in Iraq, is something that has justification. But when they lose dozens of people in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam (capitals of Kenya and Tanzania, where US embassies were bombed in 1998), Iraq was struck and Afghanistan was struck. Hypocrisy stood in force behind the head of infidels worldwide, behind the cowards of this age, America and those who are with it.
These events have divided the whole world into two sides. The side of believers and the side of infidels, may God keep you away from them. Every Muslim has to rush to make his religion victorious. The winds of faith have come. The winds of change have come to eradicate oppression from the island of Muhammad, peace be upon him.
To America, I say only a few words to it and its people. I swear by God, who has elevated the skies without pillars, neither America nor the people who live in it will dream of security before we live it in Palestine, and not before all the infidel armies leave the land of Muhammad, peace by upon him.
God is great, may pride be with Islam. May peace and God's mercy be upon you."
I suppose this is yet another day when we can't look directly at the sun ?
bullshit.
The stylus that came with my Visor Deluxe scratched the screen. Replacement tip ? - no way!I could only buy replacements in packs of 5 . No response from Handspring on this issue. So I buy a 5 pack.
Inside a week and the screen has new scatches. The stylus tips are made of a harder plastic than those from palm. Of course , I want something that actually fits the device , so my options are limited.
My advice - don't buy a visor . In all other areas the device is great.
This is a great example of how far we haven't come at all. 10 years to develop and exploit and what have we got .... thousands of more users looking at the same crap on thousands more sites - not better or different - just more.
Check out those screenshots of the first browser-editor-wp extension. We've hardly moved at all.
Remember Super Dave Osborne ? Garbane - rocket fuel from garbage