Oh, and does anybody know if you get a free upgrade to 7?
If the past is any guide, if you bought Opera 6, you'll get a free upgrade, but if you bought Opera 5 and took the free upgrade to Opera 6, you'll have to pay (though they'll probably do a discount from the normal price).
Hopefully this might fix their failing ADSL servers, which are jacking up the prices and enforcing the infamous 3gb cap, but this is Telstra and since the Government is trying to sell it off let again, it can only mean that it's more savings and price rises to attract buyers on the stock exchange.
Yes, the 30-second ad's days are numbered. So? There's many other ways of advertising. Product placement is promising (for instance, Survivor integrates products into the show itself), though it could hurt genres where product placement is difficult. Networks will also start selling animated "banner ads" in the corner of the screen.
What will happen is that Madison Ave. and the TV industry will adapt to PVRs.
Monolinux sort of withered and died while Eric was in Spain. He got caught up with trolling K5. At this point, I don't know what monolinux's future is.
Maybe there should be a meta-program called "autopkgmanager" (or something else) that would serve as a unified front-end for apt-get, urpmi, up2date, emerge, etc.
I agree with you, but, there should be some efforts made towards compatibility between the various environments. This brings up an idea I;ve been kicking around for a few months: meta-theme packaging. These would be tarballs of themes for different environments. The client system would provide scripts to install themes for different environments/toolkits. So now one theme could be installed for Sawfish/Metacity, GTK, Qt/KDE, WindowMaker, or Enlightenment.
RPM's not bad. In some ways it's even better than deb.
The problem that RPM has (from a pr perspective) is that deb was the first to get a good automated installer (apt-get). However, Mandrake (not sure about SuSE.. up2date sucks ass) has urpmi, which brings the power of apt to rpm.
There has also been a project to port apt-get to use rpms instead of debs.
How difficult would it be for debian to switch to rpm, especially once apt is ported to rpm?
The FBI is not saying that setting up free wireless networks is a bad thing. They're warning companies that run WLANs to check for warchalking around their buildings and check their LANs for security. This is what they should be doing, but considering how many idiot admins there are out there, they need the FBI to give them security advice.
Yeah, my dad does some inspection work for HUD. He uses one of those, running Win98 to do the inspection. All you'd need is a PCMCIA 802.11b card to make it wireless (he currently uploads his inspection results via dialup).
After all, Konqueror is clearly a clone of IE (think about it: explorer vs. conqueror, both are file-managers cum web browsers, etc.). This is just a demonstration of how well the KDE people can emulate MS.
Think about it. All the retailer gets is a digital copy of your signature. Now, they could conceivably sign your name to contracts with them and such. But in order to actually sign your name, the person with the copy of your signature would have to actually write it out with a pen. Now, even the most braindead clerk would get suspicious if you had to use a stencil to sign the credit card receipt.
Yes, they could learn your signature from digitial printout, and if they're adept enough at forging, could do it that way. But they could do exactly the smae thing with old fashioned receipts (making copies of the receipt if necessary).
In addition the credit card companies do maintain large anti-fraud departments to investigate this sort of thing (as under US law, you'd only be liable for up to $50 of the purchases the retailer would make without your actual signature; it he buys a brand new rig from AlienWare with your signature, several grand will be eaten by AlienWare (which doesn't help their relationship with the CC) or it gets eaten by the CC. Either way, they see a pattern of people who have transactions disallowed, all of whom made purchases at the same store, and the retailer gets in big trouble.
My desktop isn't clucky or slow. It also doesn't look all that much like Windows. I'm not sure what the default Gnome config is nowadays, but my setup has a Mac-like menu bar at the top and no panel at the bottom. I rather like it.
GNOME2 (at least as packaged by Mandrake, though I think Fred Crozat has indicated that this is the preferred look by the GNOME people) features two panels (one top, with menus and applets and one bottom, with the tasklist, pager, and such). I fairly quickly made the lower one a floating panel, so it looks vaguely OS X-ish. It looks pretty good.
Is what you're looking for. I'm not a huge audiophile (I'm more concerned with having my collection not take up too much space), so I've found that anywhere from 105-115 kbps for the average bitrate works very well (I get a few frames when I do this in the 192-224 range, so I'd tend to suspect that this abr is in the actual quality area of a 160kbps mp3).
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If the past is any guide, if you bought Opera 6, you'll get a free upgrade, but if you bought Opera 5 and took the free upgrade to Opera 6, you'll have to pay (though they'll probably do a discount from the normal price).
Opera for linux (at least the version I use, 6.02), has configurable hotkeys.
Just go to Edit | Shortcuts.
Bitter much?
Well you could use the --relocate OLDPATH=NEWPATH option to move stuff around. As for the others, I'm not sure.
Advertising will not die.
Yes, the 30-second ad's days are numbered. So? There's many other ways of advertising. Product placement is promising (for instance, Survivor integrates products into the show itself), though it could hurt genres where product placement is difficult. Networks will also start selling animated "banner ads" in the corner of the screen.
What will happen is that Madison Ave. and the TV industry will adapt to PVRs.
Monolinux sort of withered and died while Eric was in Spain. He got caught up with trolling K5. At this point, I don't know what monolinux's future is.
Maybe there should be a meta-program called "autopkgmanager" (or something else) that would serve as a unified front-end for apt-get, urpmi, up2date, emerge, etc.
For example, on a mandrake box:
would call:
while on debian, the same command would call:
On gentoo:
And so forth...
I agree with you, but, there should be some efforts made towards compatibility between the various environments. This brings up an idea I;ve been kicking around for a few months: meta-theme packaging. These would be tarballs of themes for different environments. The client system would provide scripts to install themes for different environments/toolkits. So now one theme could be installed for Sawfish/Metacity, GTK, Qt/KDE, WindowMaker, or Enlightenment.
Never used urpmi, have you?
The number one problem that RPM-based distros have is Red Hat's pathetic handling of RPM.
RPM's not bad. In some ways it's even better than deb.
The problem that RPM has (from a pr perspective) is that deb was the first to get a good automated installer (apt-get). However, Mandrake (not sure about SuSE.. up2date sucks ass) has urpmi, which brings the power of apt to rpm.
There has also been a project to port apt-get to use rpms instead of debs.
How difficult would it be for debian to switch to rpm, especially once apt is ported to rpm?
The FBI is not saying that setting up free wireless networks is a bad thing. They're warning companies that run WLANs to check for warchalking around their buildings and check their LANs for security. This is what they should be doing, but considering how many idiot admins there are out there, they need the FBI to give them security advice.
Typical.
Seeing as the PS/2 line stopped with early 486's, it'd be interesting to see an ogg decoder that can work in real-time on a PS/2.
Yeah, my dad does some inspection work for HUD. He uses one of those, running Win98 to do the inspection. All you'd need is a PCMCIA 802.11b card to make it wireless (he currently uploads his inspection results via dialup).
LOL!
After all, Konqueror is clearly a clone of IE (think about it: explorer vs. conqueror, both are file-managers cum web browsers, etc.). This is just a demonstration of how well the KDE people can emulate MS.
Think about it. All the retailer gets is a digital copy of your signature. Now, they could conceivably sign your name to contracts with them and such. But in order to actually sign your name, the person with the copy of your signature would have to actually write it out with a pen. Now, even the most braindead clerk would get suspicious if you had to use a stencil to sign the credit card receipt.
Yes, they could learn your signature from digitial printout, and if they're adept enough at forging, could do it that way. But they could do exactly the smae thing with old fashioned receipts (making copies of the receipt if necessary).
In addition the credit card companies do maintain large anti-fraud departments to investigate this sort of thing (as under US law, you'd only be liable for up to $50 of the purchases the retailer would make without your actual signature; it he buys a brand new rig from AlienWare with your signature, several grand will be eaten by AlienWare (which doesn't help their relationship with the CC) or it gets eaten by the CC. Either way, they see a pattern of people who have transactions disallowed, all of whom made purchases at the same store, and the retailer gets in big trouble.
There are more important risks with CC's.
For those interested, here is a mirror.
They plan to get the Macintosh hippies and the GNU hippies in the same city at the same time! Don't do it!
GNOME2 (at least as packaged by Mandrake, though I think Fred Crozat has indicated that this is the preferred look by the GNOME people) features two panels (one top, with menus and applets and one bottom, with the tasklist, pager, and such). I fairly quickly made the lower one a floating panel, so it looks vaguely OS X-ish. It looks pretty good.
The Apple UK page has links to Apple's other non-North American sites. You could look there.
For LAME
Is what you're looking for. I'm not a huge audiophile (I'm more concerned with having my collection not take up too much space), so I've found that anywhere from 105-115 kbps for the average bitrate works very well (I get a few frames when I do this in the 192-224 range, so I'd tend to suspect that this abr is in the actual quality area of a 160kbps mp3).
Yes, they only crashed on three unaware koalas, and an indeterminately large number of wombats and emus.
That's not surprising, as Mandrake tends to enable Postfix and xinetd in the default install.
Ziff-Davis sold ZDTV a couple of years ago (hence the dropping of ZD from the name) to Vulcan Ventures, which is basically Paul Allen.
Doesn't the kernel also compile on 68K?