That defeats the purpose of them having it in there at all, genius. Sure I could copy and paste into gedit and then save it as plain text and then open it up again and reformat it all over again...but what's the point? I'll just freakin use MS Office to begin with.
It's so easily reproducable on every linux box that I've been on for the past year that I figured it would be a known bug -- so didn't bother searching for or filing a bug report. And it's got nothing to do with the font...times new roman, verdana, arial...all relatively cross-platform...Like I said, the problems stem from ooffice's inability to cope with the windows word format, as opposed to their own open office format. It's alright when you save as open office format, but I can't do that in my environment.
Yes, it's free. Kudos to open office for that.
But hey, I don't give a darn whether it's free or not. I'd gladly pay for software that works the way it's supposed to. And, although I'd much rather pay for open source software than closed proprietary crapware that I have no control over, Open Office still is not at a level to compete with MS Office in a business environment -- especially one that has legacy software intertwined with MS products. We need seamless replacement and integration.
I *am* routing for open office in the long run though -- and I really wouldn't mind paying for it either...so long as the price is reasonable. i.e. no widely used and accepted personal software should be more than $50 bucks, except operating systems, which shouldn't be more than $100...
Hmmm. I've got a few different types of wireless routers in my place, and setup a few for friends. Naturally they're the lower-end commercial brands, i.e. linksys, netgear, dlink, etc.
Now I was wondering if anyone knew of a good wireless router or access point that had a really nice telnet interface, complete with bandwidth throttling, etc.
Having spent about $200 bucks for my first wireless router and having had them drop down in price to...well about free after rebate, I'm at the point where I really want complete control over the darned thing and don't mind paying several hundred dollars again.
Does anyone know of any good wireless routers or access points for less than a grand, that have: 1) All the goodies that most modern home cable/dsl wireless routers have 2) A good command-line interface 3) bandwidth throttling 4) and lots of other crap that a wireless router should have, like control over power-consumption and signal boosting (i should be able to "over-clock" my router dammit:P)
Realistically, there is no reason I should HAVE to setup an additional box for throttling bandwidth and doing other things that a router should be able to do.
simple crap that should have been mastered before their 1.0 release. Jesus, I still have problems saving files in windows-compatible formats. For example, if the file is like one page long and has more than one bullet list then the file won't save properly...oh, it'll save, but when you re-open it, forget about having it look like it did when you saved it. Freakin bullets changed to numbers, bullets moved around, deleted, added to things that shouldn't have bullets. WTF.
if the author of that guide seriously thinks that only enabling TCP/IP and activating microsoft's crappy internet connection firewall is going to protect your computer from malicious packets after connecting to the network, he's got another thing coming.
sure, that methodology is easy and at the very least will help, but it certainly wont ensure security.
at the very least he could say that if you have a good hardware or software firewall that you should install that before connecting to the network.
still, the safest way is to simply take use a secured machine (i.e. linux) to download the MS patches and burn them to a CD, then install them from the CD.
shes hot? man, us geeks must really have low standards. wait. i dont have standards that low. maybe im not a geek! woot! no...im probably just more out of touch with reality than most other geeks.
that's a good idea...except for the whole workin for the DoD and needing to gain access to military bases, the pentagon, etc....
Random Checkpoint Officer: "Central Office, we've got a psycho in a white van carrying what looks to be 10 tons of munitions. What's that? Shoot him? OK." Me: "ummm...OW!"
i actually use old computer cases to toss spare parts into. i mean who is seriously using that old 486. do you realize how much dead space is in one of those things?!
oh right, and of course motherboard boxes are great for storing manuals, warranties, cabling, misc. screws, pci cards, etc. thanks for not packaging your MBs and shipping them off in newspaper, asus!
they'll only really be taken seriously if they scrap "confederation" from their name...sounds too much like gun-toting white trash with confederate flags hanging out of the back of their beat-up pickup truck with no muffler and a rottweiler in the back.
Sure they've made questionable decisions, but all in all everything has worked out so far.
So, netsol is a bit evil, yes, but their corporatization of the internet helped make it highly available to the masses. And let's not forget that with corporatization comes standardization (usually) and more importantly -- accountability. If something goes wrong then there is a higher potential for a huge class action...so not much goes wrong.
Oh, and let's not forget that whole sitefinder crap. ICANN stuck to their guns and netsol (verisign, whatever) took that crap down. ICANN clearly had their priorities straight there.
riiight. because ddos attacks are sooo easy to track down, because they're not coming from thousands of different source computers. are you f'in kidding me?
do you know how easy it is to: 1) pay in cash for a prepaid credit card to use for purchases anywhere 2) sign up a new web domain and web hosting with phony contact information to use for launching attacks from 3) only login from wireless hotspots using a wireless card you purchased with cash (or another of those prepaid credit cards (in case they want to track the MAC)
or have you not been around computers or following computer-related news lately -- as in the past 10 years? because ddos attacks, defending against them, and tracking down the violators is one of the largest problem facing the internet backbones. if people can take down amazon and yahoo and microsoft and not get caught surely they can take down bobsPenisPills.com nooo problem.
of course someone as stupid as this guy wouldn't be able to figure that out though, even spelling it out like i just did.
well he was clearly too inept to do so. i mean the guy didn't even know how to effectively combat spam. he didn't know better than to click "Cancel" when prompted with a popup that said "Would you like to download the super-spamming porn bot?"...
so can he really launch a ddos? doubtful.
on the other hand, even if he didn't know how to launch a ddos, but if he weren't SO STUPID, the slashdotters would have done it on his behest/behalf. way to go stupid guy! you're doubly-screwed! don't have the spammers or the anti-spammers on your site. lol.
lol. then they should be taken aside and shot. we don't need our "own kind" contributing to the downfall of the internet and free speech on the internet! that's for the stupid masses to do. out job is to delay or ultimately prevent it!
so naturally, most every programmer in redmond should be shot? hmmm. sure what the heck.
Hey, in case any of you weren't aware, if you go to kazaalite.tk and download the supertrick zip file, it contains a HOSTS file pretty exhaustive list of crappy ad servers that all point to 127.0.0.1.
This man clearly serves no benefit to society and should be locked up. I mean seriously,
1) we don't need psycho's threatening people with anthrax, especially after 9/11
2) we don't need to make any other country's opinion of us lower than it already is, yes, even if that country is canada, eh.
3) he is clearly an idiot if he is a programmer, and is already a drain on the economy...getting paid to do what is likely less than remedial work. that job should be cleared up for one of the 500,000 people that lost a job in IT last year...at least a few of which deserve it.
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Gee...that was tough.
And what kind of retarded programmer is this that he doesn't even know how the internet works in this day and age? You don't reply to spam. Of course it's going to get worse. You simply launch a ddos attack on their mail servers while talking to their ISP and forcing them to stop hosting the wankers. And if they don't, then ddos them and talk to their ISP. Etc.
Here's a start... Starting nmap 3.48 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap ) at 2003-11-22 12:23 Ea Interesting ports on 65.39.243.197: (The 1650 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 80/tcp open http 443/tcp open https 587/tcp open submission 801/tcp open device 873/tcp open rsync Device type: general purpose Running: FreeBSD 4.X OS details: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE Uptime 123.792 days (since Mon Jul 21 18:24:33 2003)
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 20.954 seconds
who else out there wants to KILL the next retarded jackarse bastard company that sues over a patent that should never have been awarded in the first place?
there should be a freakin statute of limitations on how long you have to: 1) file a patent on something that is already out in the market 2) sue over a product that infringes on an existing patent
that statute of limitations should be 1 day. f all you bastards. you're ruining it for people who actually deserve their patents.
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That defeats the purpose of them having it in there at all, genius. Sure I could copy and paste into gedit and then save it as plain text and then open it up again and reformat it all over again...but what's the point? I'll just freakin use MS Office to begin with.
It's so easily reproducable on every linux box that I've been on for the past year that I figured it would be a known bug -- so didn't bother searching for or filing a bug report. And it's got nothing to do with the font...times new roman, verdana, arial...all relatively cross-platform...Like I said, the problems stem from ooffice's inability to cope with the windows word format, as opposed to their own open office format. It's alright when you save as open office format, but I can't do that in my environment.
Yes, it's free. Kudos to open office for that.
But hey, I don't give a darn whether it's free or not. I'd gladly pay for software that works the way it's supposed to. And, although I'd much rather pay for open source software than closed proprietary crapware that I have no control over, Open Office still is not at a level to compete with MS Office in a business environment -- especially one that has legacy software intertwined with MS products. We need seamless replacement and integration.
I *am* routing for open office in the long run though -- and I really wouldn't mind paying for it either...so long as the price is reasonable. i.e. no widely used and accepted personal software should be more than $50 bucks, except operating systems, which shouldn't be more than $100...
well, i suppose it's back to gedit for me.
Hmmm. I've got a few different types of wireless routers in my place, and setup a few for friends. Naturally they're the lower-end commercial brands, i.e. linksys, netgear, dlink, etc.
:P)
Now I was wondering if anyone knew of a good wireless router or access point that had a really nice telnet interface, complete with bandwidth throttling, etc.
Having spent about $200 bucks for my first wireless router and having had them drop down in price to...well about free after rebate, I'm at the point where I really want complete control over the darned thing and don't mind paying several hundred dollars again.
Does anyone know of any good wireless routers or access points for less than a grand, that have:
1) All the goodies that most modern home cable/dsl wireless routers have
2) A good command-line interface
3) bandwidth throttling
4) and lots of other crap that a wireless router should have, like control over power-consumption and signal boosting (i should be able to "over-clock" my router dammit
Realistically, there is no reason I should HAVE to setup an additional box for throttling bandwidth and doing other things that a router should be able to do.
simple crap that should have been mastered before their 1.0 release. Jesus, I still have problems saving files in windows-compatible formats. For example, if the file is like one page long and has more than one bullet list then the file won't save properly...oh, it'll save, but when you re-open it, forget about having it look like it did when you saved it. Freakin bullets changed to numbers, bullets moved around, deleted, added to things that shouldn't have bullets. WTF.
if the author of that guide seriously thinks that only enabling TCP/IP and activating microsoft's crappy internet connection firewall is going to protect your computer from malicious packets after connecting to the network, he's got another thing coming.
sure, that methodology is easy and at the very least will help, but it certainly wont ensure security.
at the very least he could say that if you have a good hardware or software firewall that you should install that before connecting to the network.
still, the safest way is to simply take use a secured machine (i.e. linux) to download the MS patches and burn them to a CD, then install them from the CD.
my 2 cents.
You'd need an entire class dedicated to analyzing SCO and their crackpot claims....I guess we could call that class an Imp Lawyer...
i certainly would have made it rackmountable.
i mean, if youre gonna take something big and ugly and make it bigger and uglier, you could at least add some level of practicality to it...
let's hope this is the first of many, so that our children don't have to deal with this nonsense.
shes hot? man, us geeks must really have low standards. wait. i dont have standards that low. maybe im not a geek! woot! no...im probably just more out of touch with reality than most other geeks.
that's a good idea...except for the whole workin for the DoD and needing to gain access to military bases, the pentagon, etc....
Random Checkpoint Officer: "Central Office, we've got a psycho in a white van carrying what looks to be 10 tons of munitions. What's that? Shoot him? OK."
Me: "ummm...OW!"
i actually use old computer cases to toss spare parts into. i mean who is seriously using that old 486. do you realize how much dead space is in one of those things?!
oh right, and of course motherboard boxes are great for storing manuals, warranties, cabling, misc. screws, pci cards, etc. thanks for not packaging your MBs and shipping them off in newspaper, asus!
they'll only really be taken seriously if they scrap "confederation" from their name...sounds too much like gun-toting white trash with confederate flags hanging out of the back of their beat-up pickup truck with no muffler and a rottweiler in the back.
flamebait me arse. that was just plain funny you psycho mods!
Sure they've made questionable decisions, but all in all everything has worked out so far.
So, netsol is a bit evil, yes, but their corporatization of the internet helped make it highly available to the masses. And let's not forget that with corporatization comes standardization (usually) and more importantly -- accountability. If something goes wrong then there is a higher potential for a huge class action...so not much goes wrong.
Oh, and let's not forget that whole sitefinder crap. ICANN stuck to their guns and netsol (verisign, whatever) took that crap down. ICANN clearly had their priorities straight there.
riiight. because ddos attacks are sooo easy to track down, because they're not coming from thousands of different source computers. are you f'in kidding me?
do you know how easy it is to:
1) pay in cash for a prepaid credit card to use for purchases anywhere
2) sign up a new web domain and web hosting with phony contact information to use for launching attacks from
3) only login from wireless hotspots using a wireless card you purchased with cash (or another of those prepaid credit cards (in case they want to track the MAC)
or have you not been around computers or following computer-related news lately -- as in the past 10 years? because ddos attacks, defending against them, and tracking down the violators is one of the largest problem facing the internet backbones. if people can take down amazon and yahoo and microsoft and not get caught surely they can take down bobsPenisPills.com nooo problem.
of course someone as stupid as this guy wouldn't be able to figure that out though, even spelling it out like i just did.
well he was clearly too inept to do so. i mean the guy didn't even know how to effectively combat spam. he didn't know better than to click "Cancel" when prompted with a popup that said "Would you like to download the super-spamming porn bot?"...
so can he really launch a ddos? doubtful.
on the other hand, even if he didn't know how to launch a ddos, but if he weren't SO STUPID, the slashdotters would have done it on his behest/behalf. way to go stupid guy! you're doubly-screwed! don't have the spammers or the anti-spammers on your site. lol.
lol. then they should be taken aside and shot. we don't need our "own kind" contributing to the downfall of the internet and free speech on the internet! that's for the stupid masses to do. out job is to delay or ultimately prevent it!
so naturally, most every programmer in redmond should be shot? hmmm. sure what the heck.
Hey, in case any of you weren't aware, if you go to kazaalite.tk and download the supertrick zip file, it contains a HOSTS file pretty exhaustive list of crappy ad servers that all point to 127.0.0.1.
Keep adding your own to it!
This man clearly serves no benefit to society and should be locked up. I mean seriously,
1) we don't need psycho's threatening people with anthrax, especially after 9/11
2) we don't need to make any other country's opinion of us lower than it already is, yes, even if that country is canada, eh.
3) he is clearly an idiot if he is a programmer, and is already a drain on the economy...getting paid to do what is likely less than remedial work. that job should be cleared up for one of the 500,000 people that lost a job in IT last year...at least a few of which deserve it.
lol. yeah i thought the same thing. maybe he just doesn't want to admit that he signed up for more information because he's got a small prick. :P
although i personally would rather have people think that i've got a small penis than think that im some kind of stupid retarded programmer. sheesh.
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Gee...that was tough.
And what kind of retarded programmer is this that he doesn't even know how the internet works in this day and age? You don't reply to spam. Of course it's going to get worse. You simply launch a ddos attack on their mail servers while talking to their ISP and forcing them to stop hosting the wankers. And if they don't, then ddos them and talk to their ISP. Etc.
Here's a start...
Starting nmap 3.48 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap ) at 2003-11-22 12:23 Ea
Interesting ports on 65.39.243.197:
(The 1650 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
25/tcp open smtp
80/tcp open http
443/tcp open https
587/tcp open submission
801/tcp open device
873/tcp open rsync
Device type: general purpose
Running: FreeBSD 4.X
OS details: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE
Uptime 123.792 days (since Mon Jul 21 18:24:33 2003)
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 20.954 seconds
FreeBSD. Good. More of a challenge =)
and NOT use yahoo. they clearly suck.
just get your own domain and hosting. its cheap as dirt nowadays.
who else out there wants to KILL the next retarded jackarse bastard company that sues over a patent that should never have been awarded in the first place?
there should be a freakin statute of limitations on how long you have to:
1) file a patent on something that is already out in the market
2) sue over a product that infringes on an existing patent
that statute of limitations should be 1 day. f all you bastards. you're ruining it for people who actually deserve their patents.
1) I (tm)
2) the (tm)
3) monkey (tm)
that is all.
you poor bastard.