Hmm, you might want to try clearing out any old cookies from it (doubt it will change anything, but it's worth a shot). It probably wouldn't hurt to submit your school's banner address and a description of the problem to the Safari bug report, too.
1) You can finally use a secure proxy: in past versions this was broken for some reason (anybody who has had it disabled for the past few months might want to re-enable it now).
2) Cookies are finally working on PHP nuke sites: previous versions would lose preferences right after signing in.
3) I can finally login to my university's registration system. It uses this software; I'm guessing other schools rely on it too.
Anything else?
Arabic language support is still not quire right (certain letters in words are being displayed too small). A Windows Media Player plugin might be nice, but that probably is on the shoulders of M$ more-so than Apple. Other than that everything is perfect; tabs were something I was expecting anyway, and the right-click Google search was a surprise bonus.
Filtering at the client level is a joke. It does nothing to address the real issue that if all this crap traffic wasn't spewing across the net proper, you'd be able to get whatever service you wanted a lot easier and a lot cheaper.
I don't think it's a joke really. If spammers realize that, despite all their attempts, no one actually sees their spam (because spam filtering, both client and server side become the norm), then there won't be nearly as much incentive for them to bother in the first place. It would kind of be like buying local advertising on a radio station that only 5 people can hear; sure, you can do it, but the cost outweighs the benefit (even for a spammer)
There's oftentimes a difference between easiest/quickest, and between most effective solutions to a problem. Blocking residential DSL mail servers is a quick, self-satisfying, and temporary solution to a problem that's much larger. A great deal (perhaps majority) of spammers already are operating outside of the US, and I somehow doubt ISPs will ever be able to filter every residential mail server from every mom and pop ISP, from China to France. And if the incentives for spamming are as great as some people claim, spammers will probably just start investing in their own T1's (they probably do this already).
Educating users and administrators about ways of blocking spam seems a better idea to me. It seems waiting for institutions/companies to fix problems generally results in A) solutions most people are unsatisfied with, and B) solutions that, by nature, are half-assed -- since institutions oftentimes are under pressure to "just do something" about a problem. I'm sure the AOL people are feeling very confident right now that they've really made a great decision -- the problem won't go away though.
The only way to solve this is on an individual level, taking away a spammer's audience completely. AOL's method only makes the audience slightly harder to reach.
1) Although I've never used my ISP's mailservers for outgoing mail, my friends have -- and mail is constantly lost, or delivered hours late.
2) Likewise, my ISP's incoming mail servers are frequently down, losing mail, and full of spam (the address was either harvested or sold, I don't know which. I have evidence of it, but that's another thread). A couple of my own local accounts suffer from spam as well, but I managed to install Spamassassin, which must be too difficult for my ISP.
3) Privacy is a concern with me, and I'd prefer to handle mail transactions myself.
4) I like the reassurance of looking through my Sendmail logs, knowing that an important message was delivered, and if it wasn't, the reason why.
5) Although this is unrelated, my friends often complain of outages when my service is fine. The reason? My ISP's DNS servers are constantly screwed up, yet I run my own.
6) I run majodomo to host a small mailing list of 20 of so members (that moves perhaps 500 messages a month); that's not enough traffic to justify having it hosted somewhere else, and Yahoogroups butchers messages with advertisements. Luckily none of its members use AOL.
7) I check my mail logs often (to make sure nothing unordinary is going on), and do not allow relaying.
Many of us run mail servers simply because our ISPs are unreliable. Many ISPs can't even host a measly 5mb of web space adequately, so I feel weary letting them handle important E-Mails. I wish Speakeasy was available in my area, it would be a no-brainer switch.
You've probably heard the saying, "tolerating excesses in order to preserve freedoms." Well, Spam is an excess -- a very horrible excess. At the same time, enough people use home mail servers for justifiable reasons that outlawing them, or blocking mail from them isn't a logical decision.
And besides, there's other ways to prevent spam without making anyone unhappy. Spamassassin, once configured correctly, nails just about all spam. My university filters spam on my POP account, and I receive maybe one (if that) a month; couple that with Mail App's built in filtering and I haven't actually seen a Spam message in months. The best way to get rid of spammers is to implement solutions that make their efforts ineffective on ANY level, not just by killing off one of their hundreds of other options (AOL's method).
Someone else pointed this out in another thread, but essentially encrypting something might make you appear more suspicious. The best thing to do is make sure something is never found at all -- encrypted or not.
In the case of encryption, you're just going to rot in jail until you give the key up.
Seems the best answer for storing sensitive data might be to store it on a computer in another country, and transfer it back and forth with SSH.
There's probably a lot of reasons to hide things, even if you're innocent. I'm not a porn guy myself, but let's just put forth a hypothetical situation where you're arrested for a crime, perhaps murder (in which you claim it was self defense). Somehow the prosecution manages to get ahold of your PC, and finds out you liked visiting sites about guns and other types of weapons, then uses it to argue you're an inherently violent and trigger-happy individual.
I've seen cases where a girl was raped and the defense brought forth the fact that the woman was a stripper, as evidence that she lead a dangerous lifestyle and 'put herself in a situation to be raped.' Not saying I agree or disagree with that, but things like that do happen. Or let's say you're a Chemistry major who somehow ends up held on secret evidence; part of that evidence is that you kept materials relating to chemicals on your hard drive. You had no malicious intent, but . . . that doesn't much matter.
So, there's a lot of reasons to hide things, especially when the idea of privacy is pretty much gone nowadays. I'd say people who make a comment like "why would you hide anything if you're not guilty" probably haven't had any run ins with the law (either through friends or directly), and don't know that prosecutors and detectives could oftentimes give a rat's ass about facts, especially if you end up being their "first big case," and finding you guilty means a promotion and big media coverage.
I was going to put off the kids thing a few more years, but I need a justifiable reason to spend $125 on these things. So, if there's any women out there who would like to get married and have my child soon there after, and also provide me with your Visa card so I can order these tanks (for are soon to arrive child), please send me a message.
I switched to Mac almost a year ago, and I was using my PC's old CRT until last month. Though I couldn't afford a Cinema Display, the 17" Studio Display made a good replacement. Really, when comparing it side by side with other LCDs, Apple's just looked sharper to me. Plus, the ADC connection is an added bonus: digital signal, USB, and power all in one chord.
Actually, the design of the connector itself is nice. Speaking as someone who's bent monitor pins before by accident, did you notice how hard it would be to do the same with the ADC connector? Also, I like how the plug can move up and down, so less stress is put on it, especially if your machine gets jammed up against a wall. It's these subtle perks that make me happy to be using a Mac.
So basically you have a beef with me for using casual language, in a public forum, while discussing the subject of how one skips classes? Okay, next time I'll make note of that and be sure to speak very seriously about the matter, and spend an extra 30-seconds proofreading before I hit the submit button.
Maybe you should've skipped more classes and you wouldn't be so anal.
As far as your last paragraph is concerned, you're probably right -- at least about the school. The phone book wasn't an option, because the number was unlisted; mail wasn't an option because I picked it up before my parents got home; school meeting weren't an option because my parents had jobs. Crazy isn't it? Yet I still wound up in graduate school with high honors.
Anyway, you can go back to feeling superior about yourself for catching my spelling errors.
Your solution rocks. When I was a young chap in school though, I had another method to skip class. You know those forms they gave you the first day of school, where your parents put their phone number and stuff like that? I'd just hand it to my parents and give them a pencil (not pen) to fill it in. Once they put in their phone number I'd take it to my room and erase it, then put the number for my BBS line in. Anytime there was a discipline problem contacting my parents by phone was never an option, and skipping school was a snap! (I proudly missed about 30+ days my Sophomore year of High School).
Plus, there was a certain feelings of geek superiority when the principle called your house and figured the phone was broken, because he'd never heard a modem pick up before.
Look at this annoying ass stock graphic they used. Makes me want to barf.
The best solution I see to this problem is to begin misbehaving so much that your parents no longer focus on your grades, but that you "don't end up in jail after graduating." Use your goof off time to study things you really care about, then go to college and do 10X's better than all your moron friends who can't think critically after being public school drones. You'll be happy while your classmates flunk out and become drunks, and you end up actually enjoying learning for the first tine in your life.
Or maybe -- wait -- you find out college isn't for you, and you do something else. So many options. Too bad the early education system here totally ruins them.
..is why this would have been a Good Thing in the first place. I'm genuinely curious about this, but why would anyone shell out cash for a PPC mobo that only supported G3s? It's a good chip, yeah, but for similar cash you could get a much better x86 solution and run some variety of Linux on it, no?
Well, one reason to go this route is because if you use it for something like a firewall, the usual x86 script kiddie exploits won't work quite as well. Another reason is just the plain coolness of having something different.
A good high resolution monitor, anti-aliased text, and proper color balancing and lighting make dead trees obsolete.
Hmm. I kind of agree with you. I bought a Studio Display for my PowerMac about a month ago, and reading documents is easier on my eyes than the CRT. Still though, if I'm writing a paper for school I will print out at least one rough draft, then go over it with a pen and maybe a highlighter -- then go back to Word and edit using the paper as a guide. I find that there's many errors I never catch on the screen, but I do catch on a hardcopy.
When it comes to reading, even if its a novel, I like to write ideas and stuff in the margins; you can do that on your computer to a certain extent, but it's not quite the same, or as simple. Anything over 40-50 pages generally gets printed, and then read. It doesn't have as much to do with it being hard on my eyes, but the idea that some people will always prefer a hardcopy. I have a feeling some of the on line books I printed and put in a binder will survive longer and be easier to find 10 years from now than if I put it on a CD-R alongside some warez.
HP makes high quality printers. The prints look great, they are fast, and they have all sorts of features like digital camera card readers and little color LCD screens that let you see what picture you are about to print out. With these toys comes a much higher price tag.
Actually, I was a little surprised to see how many people here had trouble with HP printers. I was an English major as an undergraduate, and my Deskjet received what I'd consider a pretty thorough beating. The black ink cartridges needed replacing quite frequently, but that's almost to be expected. On the other hand, I've probably only replaced the color cartridge once (I never print in color).
I'm wondering if the people experiencing so many printer failures didn't purchase $50-60 models.. My HP is by no means the greatest, but at the time of purchase it was around $150. If you're buying a $40 Lexmark or something from WalMart, well -- don't expect a workhorse.
This will probably be the last Inkjet I buy though; the cartridges need replacing far too often, and they're way too expensive. The only justifiable reason I can see to buy an Inkjet over laser is for cheap color printing.
I wish some printer manufacture would make a hack so that one could remove a color cartridge completely, and instead have just one black cartridge two or three times larger. I have absolutely no need for color, and unfortunately, if your color cart goes empty on many printers, it will refuse to print at all.
Been that way since 1984. Where do you think the idea for Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, and Ctrl-V in Windows came from?
Kind of amusing don't you think? When Microsoft did Windows 95 it's like they tried to rip off the MacOS GUI but reverse everything: toolbar on the bottom not top; icons set to left, not right. Finally, they steal the copy/paste keys, and flip it from alt (where the option key would be on a Mac) to control. I guess it brings a new meaning to the phrase "ass backward."
That's the thing, since it only happens once a day, you don't get a bunch of crap. C'mon, you wouldn't find that amusing, at least once? You wouldn't see the comedy in getting like, a Rob Zombie mp3 one day, then one from Barbara Streisand? Then the next day get a picture of some dork's turbocharged Dodge Neon with really (what he perceives to be) cool spoilers? Then the next day you get UT2k3.
A kind of software book exchange club. A client (kind of p2p in nature) that randomly uploads and downloads a new piece of software every couple days. You never know what you're gonna get, and you have no say in what you send the other person. There's no personal interaction at all. You could get an mp3.. or an iso. However, you could limit your downloads to say, Mac, PC, or Linux.
Anyway, I think this would be cool. p2p, but with no say in what you send or receive. Open your "received" folder every morning and look at what you got. Maybe it's an mp3 that absolutely sucks -- or maybe a really cool app you never knew existed. Or maybe just a really funny picture.
Have you ever used Windows 1.0? I managed to get it running in Virtual PC one day; it was nothing more than a glorified DOS shell with a calculator and word processing app. The Lisa on the other hand, actually did some useful things, and had a somewhat graceful GUI; nicely shaded grays are much nicer than that 4 color CGA monstrosity that was Windows 1.0.
Actually I remember using Geos on my c64 around 85/86, and unlike Windows 1.0, there were a few decent productivity apps for it. M$ isn't the only company guilty of stealing ideas, it's just they're the only ones to consistently make bad implementations of what they stole ..
I'm starting to feel the same way as you, especially after checking this the other day. Seems as if they're cutting support on all versions prior to 8.0 this December, and cutting support on 8.0 in March of 2004. So basically, in order to keep the boxes up to date you need to either compile everything from source, or constantly upgrade to their newest distribution -- not really cool for people like me who would happily run 7.1 as long as patches are released.
As soon as I get an extra box I'll probably start migrating some more important things off of Redhat and to another Linux distro. (maybe even BSD).
FYI: I run BSD & Linux @ home on low-end hardware and no Windoze. But I don't run a BSD from 1996. Do you ?
Well, no -- but I think that's primarily because I didn't bother getting interested in open source alternatives until around '98 or so, otherwise I probably would have some older installs around. One mission critical box on my network is running a version of Redhat Linux that's been upgraded from 6.2 to 7.1, and heavily patched anytime a security vulnerability was announced. The installs of Apache 2.0 and OpenSSH were built from source -- not to be super l33t or anything, but because you can oftentimes rebuild a program faster than a vendor can release a patch. So this box running 7.1 is sufficient for everything I need, and it handles a lot of important tasks, tasks that shouldn't require a 2 hour downtime to upgrade the whole OS.
But the main point is, since UNIX is much more modular, if I am happy running an older OS, for the most part I can keep that box going without any serious downtimes. Theoretically I could be running a UNIX OS from 1995 and keep it patched and secure, just as long as I can compile new versions of services on it. On the other hand, with a M$ OS, I'm either A) not running a new enough OS to be supported, requiring me to buy another Windows license, and most likely new hardware as well, or B) If I am supported by M$, waiting for them to release a patch for vulnerability announced the day before, that with a UNIX OS I could've fixed up with a simple build from source ..
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Hmm, you might want to try clearing out any old cookies from it (doubt it will change anything, but it's worth a shot). It probably wouldn't hurt to submit your school's banner address and a description of the problem to the Safari bug report, too.
1) You can finally use a secure proxy: in past versions this was broken for some reason (anybody who has had it disabled for the past few months might want to re-enable it now).
2) Cookies are finally working on PHP nuke sites: previous versions would lose preferences right after signing in.
3) I can finally login to my university's registration system. It uses this software; I'm guessing other schools rely on it too.
Anything else?
Arabic language support is still not quire right (certain letters in words are being displayed too small). A Windows Media Player plugin might be nice, but that probably is on the shoulders of M$ more-so than Apple. Other than that everything is perfect; tabs were something I was expecting anyway, and the right-click Google search was a surprise bonus.
I've been using Junkbuster to block ads for the past two years, but it's becoming pretty much ineffective since the blocklist is never updated.
Anyone know of a source for fresh blocklists, or a program that's updated more regularly? I'd prefer to keep it Junkbuster if possible.
Filtering at the client level is a joke. It does nothing to address the real issue that if all this crap traffic wasn't spewing across the net proper, you'd be able to get whatever service you wanted a lot easier and a lot cheaper.
I don't think it's a joke really. If spammers realize that, despite all their attempts, no one actually sees their spam (because spam filtering, both client and server side become the norm), then there won't be nearly as much incentive for them to bother in the first place. It would kind of be like buying local advertising on a radio station that only 5 people can hear; sure, you can do it, but the cost outweighs the benefit (even for a spammer)
There's oftentimes a difference between easiest/quickest, and between most effective solutions to a problem. Blocking residential DSL mail servers is a quick, self-satisfying, and temporary solution to a problem that's much larger. A great deal (perhaps majority) of spammers already are operating outside of the US, and I somehow doubt ISPs will ever be able to filter every residential mail server from every mom and pop ISP, from China to France. And if the incentives for spamming are as great as some people claim, spammers will probably just start investing in their own T1's (they probably do this already).
Educating users and administrators about ways of blocking spam seems a better idea to me. It seems waiting for institutions/companies to fix problems generally results in A) solutions most people are unsatisfied with, and B) solutions that, by nature, are half-assed -- since institutions oftentimes are under pressure to "just do something" about a problem. I'm sure the AOL people are feeling very confident right now that they've really made a great decision -- the problem won't go away though.
The only way to solve this is on an individual level, taking away a spammer's audience completely. AOL's method only makes the audience slightly harder to reach.
Let me just point out a few things:
1) Although I've never used my ISP's mailservers for outgoing mail, my friends have -- and mail is constantly lost, or delivered hours late.
2) Likewise, my ISP's incoming mail servers are frequently down, losing mail, and full of spam (the address was either harvested or sold, I don't know which. I have evidence of it, but that's another thread). A couple of my own local accounts suffer from spam as well, but I managed to install Spamassassin, which must be too difficult for my ISP.
3) Privacy is a concern with me, and I'd prefer to handle mail transactions myself.
4) I like the reassurance of looking through my Sendmail logs, knowing that an important message was delivered, and if it wasn't, the reason why.
5) Although this is unrelated, my friends often complain of outages when my service is fine. The reason? My ISP's DNS servers are constantly screwed up, yet I run my own.
6) I run majodomo to host a small mailing list of 20 of so members (that moves perhaps 500 messages a month); that's not enough traffic to justify having it hosted somewhere else, and Yahoogroups butchers messages with advertisements. Luckily none of its members use AOL.
7) I check my mail logs often (to make sure nothing unordinary is going on), and do not allow relaying.
Many of us run mail servers simply because our ISPs are unreliable. Many ISPs can't even host a measly 5mb of web space adequately, so I feel weary letting them handle important E-Mails. I wish Speakeasy was available in my area, it would be a no-brainer switch.
You've probably heard the saying, "tolerating excesses in order to preserve freedoms." Well, Spam is an excess -- a very horrible excess. At the same time, enough people use home mail servers for justifiable reasons that outlawing them, or blocking mail from them isn't a logical decision.
And besides, there's other ways to prevent spam without making anyone unhappy. Spamassassin, once configured correctly, nails just about all spam. My university filters spam on my POP account, and I receive maybe one (if that) a month; couple that with Mail App's built in filtering and I haven't actually seen a Spam message in months. The best way to get rid of spammers is to implement solutions that make their efforts ineffective on ANY level, not just by killing off one of their hundreds of other options (AOL's method).
Someone else pointed this out in another thread, but essentially encrypting something might make you appear more suspicious. The best thing to do is make sure something is never found at all -- encrypted or not.
In the case of encryption, you're just going to rot in jail until you give the key up.
Seems the best answer for storing sensitive data might be to store it on a computer in another country, and transfer it back and forth with SSH.
Call me, this is my number:
(718) 546-0700
Ask for Shawn.
There's probably a lot of reasons to hide things, even if you're innocent. I'm not a porn guy myself, but let's just put forth a hypothetical situation where you're arrested for a crime, perhaps murder (in which you claim it was self defense). Somehow the prosecution manages to get ahold of your PC, and finds out you liked visiting sites about guns and other types of weapons, then uses it to argue you're an inherently violent and trigger-happy individual.
I've seen cases where a girl was raped and the defense brought forth the fact that the woman was a stripper, as evidence that she lead a dangerous lifestyle and 'put herself in a situation to be raped.' Not saying I agree or disagree with that, but things like that do happen. Or let's say you're a Chemistry major who somehow ends up held on secret evidence; part of that evidence is that you kept materials relating to chemicals on your hard drive. You had no malicious intent, but . . . that doesn't much matter.
So, there's a lot of reasons to hide things, especially when the idea of privacy is pretty much gone nowadays. I'd say people who make a comment like "why would you hide anything if you're not guilty" probably haven't had any run ins with the law (either through friends or directly), and don't know that prosecutors and detectives could oftentimes give a rat's ass about facts, especially if you end up being their "first big case," and finding you guilty means a promotion and big media coverage.
Dude, thanks for blowing my cover.
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Now I have to register a new
I was going to put off the kids thing a few more years, but I need a justifiable reason to spend $125 on these things. So, if there's any women out there who would like to get married and have my child soon there after, and also provide me with your Visa card so I can order these tanks (for are soon to arrive child), please send me a message.
Thanks
I switched to Mac almost a year ago, and I was using my PC's old CRT until last month. Though I couldn't afford a Cinema Display, the 17" Studio Display made a good replacement. Really, when comparing it side by side with other LCDs, Apple's just looked sharper to me. Plus, the ADC connection is an added bonus: digital signal, USB, and power all in one chord.
Actually, the design of the connector itself is nice. Speaking as someone who's bent monitor pins before by accident, did you notice how hard it would be to do the same with the ADC connector? Also, I like how the plug can move up and down, so less stress is put on it, especially if your machine gets jammed up against a wall. It's these subtle perks that make me happy to be using a Mac.
So basically you have a beef with me for using casual language, in a public forum, while discussing the subject of how one skips classes? Okay, next time I'll make note of that and be sure to speak very seriously about the matter, and spend an extra 30-seconds proofreading before I hit the submit button.
Maybe you should've skipped more classes and you wouldn't be so anal.
As far as your last paragraph is concerned, you're probably right -- at least about the school. The phone book wasn't an option, because the number was unlisted; mail wasn't an option because I picked it up before my parents got home; school meeting weren't an option because my parents had jobs. Crazy isn't it? Yet I still wound up in graduate school with high honors.
Anyway, you can go back to feeling superior about yourself for catching my spelling errors.
Your solution rocks. When I was a young chap in school though, I had another method to skip class. You know those forms they gave you the first day of school, where your parents put their phone number and stuff like that? I'd just hand it to my parents and give them a pencil (not pen) to fill it in. Once they put in their phone number I'd take it to my room and erase it, then put the number for my BBS line in. Anytime there was a discipline problem contacting my parents by phone was never an option, and skipping school was a snap! (I proudly missed about 30+ days my Sophomore year of High School).
Plus, there was a certain feelings of geek superiority when the principle called your house and figured the phone was broken, because he'd never heard a modem pick up before.
Look at this annoying ass stock graphic they used. Makes me want to barf.
The best solution I see to this problem is to begin misbehaving so much that your parents no longer focus on your grades, but that you "don't end up in jail after graduating." Use your goof off time to study things you really care about, then go to college and do 10X's better than all your moron friends who can't think critically after being public school drones. You'll be happy while your classmates flunk out and become drunks, and you end up actually enjoying learning for the first tine in your life.
Or maybe -- wait -- you find out college isn't for you, and you do something else. So many options. Too bad the early education system here totally ruins them.
Well, one reason to go this route is because if you use it for something like a firewall, the usual x86 script kiddie exploits won't work quite as well. Another reason is just the plain coolness of having something different.
A good high resolution monitor, anti-aliased text, and proper color balancing and lighting make dead trees obsolete.
Hmm. I kind of agree with you. I bought a Studio Display for my PowerMac about a month ago, and reading documents is easier on my eyes than the CRT. Still though, if I'm writing a paper for school I will print out at least one rough draft, then go over it with a pen and maybe a highlighter -- then go back to Word and edit using the paper as a guide. I find that there's many errors I never catch on the screen, but I do catch on a hardcopy.
When it comes to reading, even if its a novel, I like to write ideas and stuff in the margins; you can do that on your computer to a certain extent, but it's not quite the same, or as simple. Anything over 40-50 pages generally gets printed, and then read. It doesn't have as much to do with it being hard on my eyes, but the idea that some people will always prefer a hardcopy. I have a feeling some of the on line books I printed and put in a binder will survive longer and be easier to find 10 years from now than if I put it on a CD-R alongside some warez.
HP makes high quality printers. The prints look great, they are fast, and they have all sorts of features like digital camera card readers and little color LCD screens that let you see what picture you are about to print out. With these toys comes a much higher price tag.
Actually, I was a little surprised to see how many people here had trouble with HP printers. I was an English major as an undergraduate, and my Deskjet received what I'd consider a pretty thorough beating. The black ink cartridges needed replacing quite frequently, but that's almost to be expected. On the other hand, I've probably only replaced the color cartridge once (I never print in color).
I'm wondering if the people experiencing so many printer failures didn't purchase $50-60 models.. My HP is by no means the greatest, but at the time of purchase it was around $150. If you're buying a $40 Lexmark or something from WalMart, well -- don't expect a workhorse.
This will probably be the last Inkjet I buy though; the cartridges need replacing far too often, and they're way too expensive. The only justifiable reason I can see to buy an Inkjet over laser is for cheap color printing.
I wish some printer manufacture would make a hack so that one could remove a color cartridge completely, and instead have just one black cartridge two or three times larger. I have absolutely no need for color, and unfortunately, if your color cart goes empty on many printers, it will refuse to print at all.
Rebuilding this for a second time this week on a 25mhz machine almost makes me want to upgrade to a faster CPU.
Been that way since 1984. Where do you think the idea for Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, and Ctrl-V in Windows came from?
Kind of amusing don't you think? When Microsoft did Windows 95 it's like they tried to rip off the MacOS GUI but reverse everything: toolbar on the bottom not top; icons set to left, not right. Finally, they steal the copy/paste keys, and flip it from alt (where the option key would be on a Mac) to control. I guess it brings a new meaning to the phrase "ass backward."
That's the thing, since it only happens once a day, you don't get a bunch of crap. C'mon, you wouldn't find that amusing, at least once? You wouldn't see the comedy in getting like, a Rob Zombie mp3 one day, then one from Barbara Streisand? Then the next day get a picture of some dork's turbocharged Dodge Neon with really (what he perceives to be) cool spoilers? Then the next day you get UT2k3.
Think of it as digital dumpster diving.
You've actually sparked a great idea.
A kind of software book exchange club. A client (kind of p2p in nature) that randomly uploads and downloads a new piece of software every couple days. You never know what you're gonna get, and you have no say in what you send the other person. There's no personal interaction at all. You could get an mp3.. or an iso. However, you could limit your downloads to say, Mac, PC, or Linux.
Anyway, I think this would be cool. p2p, but with no say in what you send or receive. Open your "received" folder every morning and look at what you got. Maybe it's an mp3 that absolutely sucks -- or maybe a really cool app you never knew existed. Or maybe just a really funny picture.
Have you ever used Windows 1.0? I managed to get it running in Virtual PC one day; it was nothing more than a glorified DOS shell with a calculator and word processing app. The Lisa on the other hand, actually did some useful things, and had a somewhat graceful GUI; nicely shaded grays are much nicer than that 4 color CGA monstrosity that was Windows 1.0.
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Actually I remember using Geos on my c64 around 85/86, and unlike Windows 1.0, there were a few decent productivity apps for it. M$ isn't the only company guilty of stealing ideas, it's just they're the only ones to consistently make bad implementations of what they stole .
Did you know the Lisa could also run UNIX?
I'm starting to feel the same way as you, especially after checking this the other day. Seems as if they're cutting support on all versions prior to 8.0 this December, and cutting support on 8.0 in March of 2004. So basically, in order to keep the boxes up to date you need to either compile everything from source, or constantly upgrade to their newest distribution -- not really cool for people like me who would happily run 7.1 as long as patches are released.
As soon as I get an extra box I'll probably start migrating some more important things off of Redhat and to another Linux distro. (maybe even BSD).
this Redhat advisory from a couple weeks ago already addressed this issue?
FYI: I run BSD & Linux @ home on low-end hardware and no Windoze. But I don't run a BSD from 1996. Do you ?
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Well, no -- but I think that's primarily because I didn't bother getting interested in open source alternatives until around '98 or so, otherwise I probably would have some older installs around. One mission critical box on my network is running a version of Redhat Linux that's been upgraded from 6.2 to 7.1, and heavily patched anytime a security vulnerability was announced. The installs of Apache 2.0 and OpenSSH were built from source -- not to be super l33t or anything, but because you can oftentimes rebuild a program faster than a vendor can release a patch. So this box running 7.1 is sufficient for everything I need, and it handles a lot of important tasks, tasks that shouldn't require a 2 hour downtime to upgrade the whole OS.
But the main point is, since UNIX is much more modular, if I am happy running an older OS, for the most part I can keep that box going without any serious downtimes. Theoretically I could be running a UNIX OS from 1995 and keep it patched and secure, just as long as I can compile new versions of services on it. On the other hand, with a M$ OS, I'm either A) not running a new enough OS to be supported, requiring me to buy another Windows license, and most likely new hardware as well, or B) If I am supported by M$, waiting for them to release a patch for vulnerability announced the day before, that with a UNIX OS I could've fixed up with a simple build from source .
Anyway, dinner time