Okay, I just finished adding the ability for Vitrite to toggle a window's "always on top" bit.
I haven't packaged a new release yet, but if you'd like to try it out then drop me an email and I'll send you the new version. Use the email address listed on the Vitrite home page.
Can you add a feature to order the windows? I love this, but it'd be perfect if I could tell the browser to stay behind the shell.
Hmmm, I hadn't thought about that, but it's actually a pretty good idea. I don't think I could force a window to stay on the bottom, but I could force them to stay on top. It'd just involve listening for another hotkey sequence (e.g. Ctrl Shift +) and then fiddling the window's "always on top" bit.
I wonder if this could be cited as a reason to call in an audit on Microsoft.
Don't count on it. The BSA is in the business of busting software "pirates" not copyright violaters. Besides, the BSA can audit you because the click-wrap EULA you agreed to allows it. Microsoft never agreed to anything like that.
Of course, IANAL so you just wasted 30 seconds of your life reading my post.:)
Fire your administrator. What kind of idiot runs mailservers without AV software installed?
Bzzzt - wrong. Any administrator that depends on AV software is an idiot.
Using anti-virus software to keep your computer clean of viruses is akin to taking monthly vaccines to avoid salmonella. Here's a tip: QUIT EATING RAW CHICKEN.
Similarly, you can avoid the whole virus issue if you simply avoid the risks. Don't open executable email attachments and if you're using script-capable programs stay up to date on the patches.
Of course, if you're an admin you can't depend on your users to be that smart. But again, there are much better solutions than AV software. The most effective is to simply configure your mail server to remove executable attachments.
Relying on AV software to protect you is a reactive solution. It fosters stupidity and it puts you at the mercy of your AV vendor's reflexes and creativity, and I can't accept that.
Um, how do you personally observe 500,000 fewer IT jobs or a decrease in average pay? Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it's not true.
+5 Insightful? Feh - just goes to show the value of posting early.
I got tired of dealing with my users' virus problems a long time ago. So I wrote batemail. It's a Perl script that you slip between your MTA (e.g. Sendmail) and your local mailer (e.g. Procmail) that filters out ALL executable attachments.
I've been using it in my production environment for over a year now and it works like a charm. And it's open source, too!
The chinese economy is _heavily_ dependent on the American economy. [...] The codependence of our economies is probably the only reason all-out-war hasn't broken out between us.
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia.
Bzzzt - don't forget lower power consumption, better color depth, and NO flicker. Besides that you are correct, they still have all the flaws you mention.
Why would you want to have any sort of audio compression taking up CPU cycles in a game that is so processesor depedent?
For one reason - on 3D games the video card is usually the bottleneck.
standard CD audio can be read off a disk with next to no CPU usage
Right, but at 10MB/min for CD audio it takes up A LOT of space that could be used for textures, models, levels, etc. A half hour of music would waste half the space on a CD.
I've never seen the need to treat my employees like elementary school students or indentured servants.
I agree with you completely. Treating people like that would be counter-productive and inconsiderate. But it would not be illegal.
I was responding to some guy who thinks that employees have an inalienable right to private communications while using other people's equipment. They don't.
If it isn't company business, PAYCHECK OR NOT, it isn't company business. Period. People should be given the freedom to be people before corporate drones.
Who are you, Bodhi from Point Blank?
No one forces you to take a job. When you do, you engage in a contract with your employer. It says I will provide X amount of hours of labor for X amount of wages. If you are fucking off chatting with your warez buddies on AIM, than you are not fulfilling your end of the bargain. You are ripping off your employer. Period.
If I pay someone to dig holes for me for 1 hour, then I am entitled stand beside him and make sure he digs for that hour. Even moreso if he's using my shovel. Why do you think that because you work with computer equipment that you are special? It's the same thing.
Excuse me, but why is the workplace exempt from a person's inalienable rights?
I don't think you understand. You do not have an inalienable right to use other people's equipment to chat on the Internet. If you want to do that - do it at home, where you pay for it.
Players take a vow to play cheat free. They get their friends to confirm that they play cheat free. Friends confirm other friends. The web develops. This relationship is published to a well known repository and linked to other webs of trust submitted by other groups based on common participants.
At least one pitfall to this system is that it hinges on social interaction between participants.
It basically mandates that logging onto a random server and playing for an hour or so every couple nights isn't "good enough". Now you have to engage in moronic chit-chat with the dozen retards on the server in order to can gain their trust. No thanks.
I play CounterStrike because the game is fun. The last thing I want to do is be forced to integrate myself into some "clan" of immature jackasses just so people can be sure I'm not cheating.
Have they actually given serious thought to the possibility that the reason sales are down is because the fanatical followers of bubblegum pop have started to grow up?
There's always been shitty music that only teenagers like. "Bubblegum pop" is not a new phenomenon. Hell, don't you remember New Kids on the Block?
The reason demand is down is because the economy is down. It's Occam's freakin' razor.
Every couple years somebody annouces the "discovery" of an ancient underwater city. They're usually characterized by massive, blocks of stone neatly organized in the formation of a wall. (Couldn't tell if that was what this article was talking about - not enough detail.)
However, what usually happens is the general scientific community decides that it's actually orthogonal jointing of beachrock - which it turns out is pretty common (Bimini Road, Tasmanian Parking Lot, the referenced story about Cuba, etc.). There was actually a pretty interesting segment on TLC (I think) about this a couple weeks ago.
Maybe now they'll stop trying to cram Windows Messenger down everyone's throat (signing up gets you a Passport account). If you've used Windows XP you know what I'm talking about.
ATTN Moderators: an unsubstantiated, undocumented report from an Anonymous Coward that blemishes the reputation of this company does not make for +4 insightful.
Why not? Did it ever occur to you that he could be sued if he used his real name to complain about a company in a public forum?
Apparently you don't see the necessity of anonymous speech.
I am continuously boggled at some of the moronic remedies that the government comes up with.
Who cares if Windows can be made modular? I can assure you it isn't the consumer.
If people had the choice on Dell's web page between Windows Complete (CD burning, voice recognition, defragger, remote desktop, pkzip support, browser, compiler, whatever) and Windows Scrawny, which one do you think they would choose?
I WANT my OS to include this shit. That's part of the appeal of some of the Free OSes out there. When you install Mandrake or Redhat there are hundreds of other apps that come with it.
Remember this is about the vendor being able to modularize Windows, not the consumer.
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Why does "your grandma" always get hauled out as the poster-child for technical dipshits in a effort to prove that the learning curve for some new technology is too high? Is anyone else besides me getting tired of this "grandma argument"?
Look pal, I'm sorry you hate your grandma. But most of us love our gammies and want to see them enjoy Linux-related technologies to their fullest.
Can somebody here explain to me how what this company was doing is illegal, yet what libraries (public or private) do is legal?
Just because a library is a public resource does not exempt it from copyright law. They facilitate [hell - they exist solely for the purpose of] sharing books, music, magazines, whatever. And I think it is important to note that this company was not selling copyrighted material - it was only allowing its employees to exchange music.
So what is the distinction?
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bye bye tivo
Yeah right. Unless your grandma can build one of these, I wouldn't count on them replacing TiVos or Replays anytime soon.
i didn't see if there's a project to build a public database of showtimes/channels for people to get. shouldn't be that challenging.
There's probably 3000+ different cable lineups in the U.S. alone. I wouldn't count on a reliable source of this guide data just magically appearing from the open source community. However, you might be able to use the Guide+ data that gets broadcasted on PBS stations in the middle of the night. For that matter, I can't figure out why nobody has hacked TiVo to use it.
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Okay, I just finished adding the ability for Vitrite to toggle a window's "always on top" bit.
I haven't packaged a new release yet, but if you'd like to try it out then drop me an email and I'll send you the new version. Use the email address listed on the Vitrite home page.
Can you add a feature to order the windows? I love this, but it'd be perfect if I could tell the browser to stay behind the shell.
Hmmm, I hadn't thought about that, but it's actually a pretty good idea. I don't think I could force a window to stay on the bottom, but I could force them to stay on top. It'd just involve listening for another hotkey sequence (e.g. Ctrl Shift +) and then fiddling the window's "always on top" bit.
Thanks. I'll have to look into that.
It's not really related, but I really appreceate your open source version of glass2k
Thank you. That is why I do Open Source.
I wouldn't waste my time if I were you. The ending doesn't make any sense, it's just some crazy lady dancing.
I wonder if this could be cited as a reason to call in an audit on Microsoft.
:)
Don't count on it. The BSA is in the business of busting software "pirates" not copyright violaters. Besides, the BSA can audit you because the click-wrap EULA you agreed to allows it. Microsoft never agreed to anything like that.
Of course, IANAL so you just wasted 30 seconds of your life reading my post.
Fire your administrator. What kind of idiot runs mailservers without AV software installed?
Bzzzt - wrong. Any administrator that depends on AV software is an idiot.
Using anti-virus software to keep your computer clean of viruses is akin to taking monthly vaccines to avoid salmonella. Here's a tip: QUIT EATING RAW CHICKEN.
Similarly, you can avoid the whole virus issue if you simply avoid the risks. Don't open executable email attachments and if you're using script-capable programs stay up to date on the patches.
Of course, if you're an admin you can't depend on your users to be that smart. But again, there are much better solutions than AV software. The most effective is to simply configure your mail server to remove executable attachments.
Relying on AV software to protect you is a reactive solution. It fosters stupidity and it puts you at the mercy of your AV vendor's reflexes and creativity, and I can't accept that.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Um, how do you personally observe 500,000 fewer IT jobs or a decrease in average pay? Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it's not true.
+5 Insightful? Feh - just goes to show the value of posting early.
[...] and as such, has a much much longer life expectancy than, say, Garfield (no offense to Garfield)
Uh, Garfield is a cartoon cat. You don't have to apologize to him.
I got tired of dealing with my users' virus problems a long time ago. So I wrote batemail. It's a Perl script that you slip between your MTA (e.g. Sendmail) and your local mailer (e.g. Procmail) that filters out ALL executable attachments.
I've been using it in my production environment for over a year now and it works like a charm. And it's open source, too!
As the GPL says, "Most lices are created with the purpose of taking away your rights..."
Jeez - that's a pretty negative view of lice.
The chinese economy is _heavily_ dependent on the American economy. [...] The codependence of our economies is probably the only reason all-out-war hasn't broken out between us.
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia.
The only thing [LCDs] have going for them is size
Bzzzt - don't forget lower power consumption, better color depth, and NO flicker. Besides that you are correct, they still have all the flaws you mention.
Why would you want to have any sort of audio compression taking up CPU cycles in a game that is so processesor depedent?
For one reason - on 3D games the video card is usually the bottleneck.
standard CD audio can be read off a disk with next to no CPU usage
Right, but at 10MB/min for CD audio it takes up A LOT of space that could be used for textures, models, levels, etc. A half hour of music would waste half the space on a CD.
I've never seen the need to treat my employees like elementary school students or indentured servants.
I agree with you completely. Treating people like that would be counter-productive and inconsiderate. But it would not be illegal.
I was responding to some guy who thinks that employees have an inalienable right to private communications while using other people's equipment. They don't.
If it isn't company business, PAYCHECK OR NOT, it isn't company business. Period. People should be given the freedom to be people before corporate drones.
Who are you, Bodhi from Point Blank?
No one forces you to take a job. When you do, you engage in a contract with your employer. It says I will provide X amount of hours of labor for X amount of wages. If you are fucking off chatting with your warez buddies on AIM, than you are not fulfilling your end of the bargain. You are ripping off your employer. Period.
If I pay someone to dig holes for me for 1 hour, then I am entitled stand beside him and make sure he digs for that hour. Even moreso if he's using my shovel. Why do you think that because you work with computer equipment that you are special? It's the same thing.
Excuse me, but why is the workplace exempt from a person's inalienable rights?
I don't think you understand. You do not have an inalienable right to use other people's equipment to chat on the Internet. If you want to do that - do it at home, where you pay for it.
Players take a vow to play cheat free. They get their friends to confirm that they play cheat free. Friends confirm other friends. The web develops. This relationship is published to a well known repository and linked to other webs of trust submitted by other groups based on common participants.
At least one pitfall to this system is that it hinges on social interaction between participants.
It basically mandates that logging onto a random server and playing for an hour or so every couple nights isn't "good enough". Now you have to engage in moronic chit-chat with the dozen
retards on the server in order to can gain their trust. No thanks.
I play CounterStrike because the game is fun. The last thing I want to do is be forced to integrate myself into some "clan" of immature jackasses just so people can be sure I'm not cheating.
Have they actually given serious thought to the possibility that the reason sales are down is because the fanatical followers of bubblegum pop have started to grow up?
There's always been shitty music that only teenagers like. "Bubblegum pop" is not a new phenomenon. Hell, don't you remember New Kids on the Block?
The reason demand is down is because the economy is down. It's Occam's freakin' razor.
I feel that way because Nintendo doesn't see the Gamecube as a trojan horse to take over my living room's connectivity.
;-)
That's because Nintendo thinks you are 11 years old.
Every couple years somebody annouces the "discovery" of an ancient underwater city. They're usually characterized by massive, blocks of stone neatly organized in the formation of a wall. (Couldn't tell if that was what this article was talking about - not enough detail.)
However, what usually happens is the general scientific community decides that it's actually orthogonal jointing of beachrock - which it turns out is pretty common (Bimini Road, Tasmanian Parking Lot, the referenced story about Cuba, etc.). There was actually a pretty interesting segment on TLC (I think) about this a couple weeks ago.
Maybe now they'll stop trying to cram Windows Messenger down everyone's throat (signing up gets you a Passport account). If you've used Windows XP you know what I'm talking about.
ATTN Moderators: an unsubstantiated, undocumented report from an Anonymous Coward that blemishes the reputation of this company does not make for +4 insightful.
Why not? Did it ever occur to you that he could be sued if he used his real name to complain about a company in a public forum?
Apparently you don't see the necessity of anonymous speech.
I am continuously boggled at some of the moronic remedies that the government comes up with.
Who cares if Windows can be made modular? I can assure you it isn't the consumer.
If people had the choice on Dell's web page between Windows Complete (CD burning, voice recognition, defragger, remote desktop, pkzip support, browser, compiler, whatever) and Windows Scrawny, which one do you think they would choose?
I WANT my OS to include this shit. That's part of the appeal of some of the Free OSes out there. When you install Mandrake or Redhat there are hundreds of other apps that come with it.
Remember this is about the vendor being able to modularize Windows, not the consumer.
Why does "your grandma" always get hauled out as the poster-child for technical dipshits in a effort to prove that the learning curve for some new technology is too high? Is anyone else besides me getting tired of this "grandma argument"?
Look pal, I'm sorry you hate your grandma. But most of us love our gammies and want to see them enjoy Linux-related technologies to their fullest.
;-)
Can somebody here explain to me how what this company was doing is illegal, yet what libraries (public or private) do is legal?
Just because a library is a public resource does not exempt it from copyright law. They facilitate [hell - they exist solely for the purpose of] sharing books, music, magazines, whatever. And I think it is important to note that this company was not selling copyrighted material - it was only allowing its employees to exchange music.
So what is the distinction?
bye bye tivo
Yeah right. Unless your grandma can build one of these, I wouldn't count on them replacing TiVos or Replays anytime soon.
i didn't see if there's a project to build a public database of showtimes/channels for people to get. shouldn't be that challenging.
There's probably 3000+ different cable lineups in the U.S. alone. I wouldn't count on a reliable source of this guide data just magically appearing from the open source community. However, you might be able to use the Guide+ data that gets broadcasted on PBS stations in the middle of the night. For that matter, I can't figure out why nobody has hacked TiVo to use it.