Display:
- since we won't get a decent Color display I'd like to have a B&W display with excellent contrast in any situation. Contrast is more important to me than greyscales, resolution is more important than greyscales.
Speed:
- I don't think that we can get mp3-support for 50$, so the speed of my Handspring Visor would be okay. Maybe a little faster.
Interfaces:
- It definitely would have to have a serial or USB port. I'd prefer USB.
- It would have to connect to a mobile phone, so it would have to have IR, too.
- Blutooh would be great for this, too, but might be too expensive
Memory: 4 MB RAM, 3 MMC-Slots.
Input: I don't think that we'll get a decent HWR for this price - and I'm used to the HWR of the Newton MP2000. So give me an on-screen-keyboard and it'd be fine.
Size/Proportions I want a pure big screen on the front and some buttons on the side, maybe a dial. Please no buttons on the front.
> One is to eliminate any civil liberties, and > spot them as they're about to attack.
You misspelled "eliminate any civilisation."
WTF do you think will happen if the US opens pandoras box by breaking the tabu of using nuclear weapons?
I must say that I'm beginning to see the US as the nexus of evil that is about to kill us all "because we can", and because they are stuck in collective puberty. O.K. I appreciate that the majority voted for the Predident with at least some common sense, but what does it change, if the apocalyptic rider won?
But - at least - the axis of evil won't succeed that, and as we all know: "God is on our side".
Could you please define what "sexually related" means?
Do you see the problem?
If not: Please define what "sexually related" means for.vt.us.gb.de or for Utah, California, Berlin, Bavaria, Istanbul, Beijing, wherever, or for Simpson, Flanders etc?
> Put that this way, how often does an American > (or British or French or Japanese or whoever), > will read news (newspaper or website) originated > outside his/her own home country?
Sorry, I don't want to start a US-Bashing, but it seems as if this was quite common among many non-US-citizens.
> I'm arguing that taking them off the list is
> far less urgent than putting them on it was,
Of course, I don't expect the list-owners continuously scanning the net for relays that
have been fixed.
But original author of the post wrote that he
had still problems to get off the lists.
After a period of time that is way longer
than what I'd call okay.
I'd say that at least two or three _days_
should be enough to update the lists.
This would make them more useful because
I could call them accurate, then.
> they simply don't think the risk is worth
> taking again.
OK. How high would the risk be that somebody who configured an open Relay and ended up on a
blacklist will ever make this mistake, again?
I think that even the threatening_of_the_very_usability_of_public_SMTP (tm) doesnt justify blocking somebody for longer than necessary. Necessary from a rechnical perspective.
And again:
If you block something to avoid a specific situation (spam-on-my-users-accounts) you should
stop blocking it, if the risk is gone.
It's tit-for-tat.
"I trust you until you fsck with me, but I'll let you off the hook after the next move."
> In any case, your mail has no god-given right
> to be accepted by their servers.
hey, the use-/internet works because people/systems _cooperate_.
and because admins act _reasonable.
Nobody wins anything if we keep some host on the
blacklists.
Everybody wins if we keep the blacklists
up-to-date. Admins will actually consider using
these lists, then!
To me, blacklists are a way to solve a problem.
They do this by listing open relays.
So there is no reason for keeping a host
on the list, after the malconfiguration
has been fixed.
Every attempt to keep hosts on the list for having
been open relays once is meant to punish or brandmark somebody.
This is nobodys business and people should have
come over it since they finished puberty.
We are not the usenet-military-court.
And of course every list who keeps fixed
hosts on not by purpose is maintained by
irresponsible people.
It reminds me of people who are blocking the
lane on purpose because _they_ think that I'm
driving too fast.
> [...] Mac OS X is about 20 times larger, yet
> requires significantly less that 128MB
I do not know where you got this "information",
but MacOSX 1.2 on 256MB RAM pages as hell.
You don't want to "use" mosx below 128MB, because
nothing seroius would run without being paged to
disc.
But you definitely want to use MacOSX in General:-)
It's lovely and it feels like MacOS and *X at the same time.
k2r
Re:Coins are individual per country
on
The Euro
·
· Score: 1
> and the other with a common european one.
D-oh.
You didn't miss anything and I missed the
point where I should have read your posting again.
Sorry.
k2r
Coins are individual per country
on
The Euro
·
· Score: 1
You missed on of my favorite details on the euro-coins:
Although the front is the same in every country, the back is designed individually.
That means that coins with different backsides from different countrys will start mixing over the years.
As the countrys and citizens already started to do.
Both will keep their nationality (backside) and be part of the European Community (frontside) at the same time.
This seems way more romantic to me than I ever expected the European politicians to be.
k2r
P.S. Some bank-person just called the people in Germany "europhorical". And the Euro just passed the 1:0.9 exchange-rate compared to the dollar. Upwards.
Okay.
Please write 1000 times:
"A RAID is not a backup!"
Yes, a RAID[1-6,7,10] increases availability but if you mess up your filesystem or rm -rf / you will have an exact copy of what's left on disc B. And no backup.
And if your house burnes down you even lose this.
It's essential for a real backup that
a) nothing is written to it after you made it.
b) you store it as far away from the original data as possible.
Incremental backup on the same media (multi session CD-R) doesn't comply with a)
Even making a new backup on your one-and-only DLT-Cartrigde / Spare HD might leave you in a state where your original data _AND_ you backup data is lost.
I flipped on the TV and saw raw porn right before my eyes
Npe, it can't have been real porn (tm). We have a law in Germany that defines in detail, what porn is.
And since we are Germans, I mean _really_detailed_ . For example: In Germany we now, from which angle on a man has an erection! It's the law!
And showing this on TV is illegal, so you can't have real porn on TV.
Mail-Ordering real (tm) porn is illegal, too.
So nothing can harm us. We are cute little citizens and the government cares for our mental health. Thank you!
Sorry, but the main cause for terrorism aren't the religious fundamentalists.
They are just a symptom for some major thing going wrong on this planet. Remember that there are even Terrorists who are Americans and place bombs (maybe even Antrax) in the US.
So It would be neccesary not only getting rid of the "Bin Laden"s but to change politics in general to have a real impact on the level of hate in this world.
And seriuosly, I doubt that Mr. "America first" Bush is capable of doing so.
k2r
(Neither I believe that out European politicians will get a clue, it's not only Mr. Bush)
American jetliner crashes
November 12, 2001: 9:40 a.m. ET
Crash of Airbus leaving New York's JFK airport is first crash since Sept. 11.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 jetliner, crashed near New York's Kennedy International Airport just after 9 a.m. Monday as it was leaving JFK for Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, according to the FAA.
Details of the crash, including cause or the condition of people on the plane and the ground, were not immediately available. At least four buildings were reported on fire.
A large cloud of thick black smoke was visible from miles away following the crash. Local news broadcasters in New York were quoting witnesses as saying there was an explosion on the plane before the crash.
The crash, which occurred in the Rockaways section of Queens at 122nd and Rockaway Beach Blvd, is the first involving a U.S. airliner since the Sept. 11 terrorist attack that brought down four jets. That attack prompted a shutdown in the nation's air traffic system and sharply decreased demand for air travel by the public.
American Airlines officials had no immediate comment.
All three New York area airports - JFK, LaGuardia and Newark - were closed following the crash as were all New York City area bridges and tunnels.
I got emailed somebody's resume from downunder. Maybe that is a fahionable way to apply for a job?
"Hey, I'm as stupid as 80% of all users, give me the job!"
Slashdot Mirror
O.K. lets see what we need:
Display:
- since we won't get a decent Color display
I'd like to have a B&W display with excellent
contrast in any situation. Contrast is more important to me than greyscales, resolution is more important than greyscales.
Speed:
- I don't think that we can get mp3-support
for 50$, so the speed of my Handspring Visor would
be okay. Maybe a little faster.
Interfaces:
- It definitely would have to have a serial or
USB port. I'd prefer USB.
- It would have to connect to a mobile phone, so
it would have to have IR, too.
- Blutooh would be great for this, too, but might
be too expensive
Memory:
4 MB RAM, 3 MMC-Slots.
Input:
I don't think that we'll get a decent HWR
for this price - and I'm used to the
HWR of the Newton MP2000.
So give me an on-screen-keyboard and it'd
be fine.
Size/Proportions
I want a pure big screen on the front and some buttons on the side, maybe a dial.
Please no buttons on the front.
Where do I have to sign?
k2r
Oh, you're right :-)
> One is to eliminate any civil liberties, and
> spot them as they're about to attack.
You misspelled "eliminate any civilisation."
WTF do you think will happen if the US opens
pandoras box by breaking the tabu of using nuclear weapons?
I must say that I'm beginning to see the US
as the nexus of evil that is about to kill us all "because we can", and because they are stuck in collective puberty. O.K. I appreciate that the majority voted for the Predident with at least some common sense, but what does it change, if the apocalyptic rider won?
But - at least - the axis of evil won't succeed that, and as we all know: "God is on our side".
k2r
> For instance, when I plug my iBook into
> the LAN at work, I pull down one menu item
If you set "Location" to automatic and
drag the interfaces into the desired
direction you don't have to change settings
at all.
Or did I miss something in your configuration?
k2r
Are you absolutely sure that the system locked up?
...
How long did you wait for the optimization to
complete?
I waited for about 10 Minutes after the System seemed to have lock and - it finished and rebooted gracefully.
Maybe you're to impatient
> have sexually related material limited
.vt .us .gb .de or for Utah, California, Berlin, Bavaria, Istanbul, Beijing, wherever, or for Simpson, Flanders etc?
Could you please define what "sexually related" means?
Do you see the problem?
If not: Please define what "sexually related" means for
k2r
> Put that this way, how often does an American
> (or British or French or Japanese or whoever),
> will read news (newspaper or website) originated > outside his/her own home country?
Sorry, I don't want to start a US-Bashing, but it seems as if this was quite common among many non-US-citizens.
> I'm arguing that taking them off the list is
> far less urgent than putting them on it was,
Of course, I don't expect the list-owners continuously scanning the net for relays that
have been fixed.
But original author of the post wrote that he
had still problems to get off the lists.
After a period of time that is way longer
than what I'd call okay.
I'd say that at least two or three _days_
should be enough to update the lists.
This would make them more useful because
I could call them accurate, then.
Could we agree on that?
k2r
> they simply don't think the risk is worth
> taking again.
OK. How high would the risk be that somebody who configured an open Relay and ended up on a
blacklist will ever make this mistake, again?
I think that even the threatening_of_the_very_usability_of_public_SMTP (tm) doesnt justify blocking somebody for longer than necessary. Necessary from a rechnical perspective.
And again:
If you block something to avoid a specific situation (spam-on-my-users-accounts) you should
stop blocking it, if the risk is gone.
It's tit-for-tat.
"I trust you until you fsck with me, but I'll let you off the hook after the next move."
k2r
> ou MIGHT some day get in the door for
:-)
> legitimate shopping again. Probably not.
This is exactly my point.
You are talking about punishment.
Therefore you are judging about somebody.
I'm talking about a problem and a neutral
solution, not about interfering with somebodys
life/work/whatever.
You talk about getting rid of your problems
and cause somebody else a problem instead
_willingly_.
I think that we're in a better situation
if we try to fix something without breaking
something else that hadn't to be broken
necessarily.
To get back to the car example:
Imagine I did something wrong causing you
to break heavily.
Would you then pass me by and force me
to crash into your trunk just to show me
how it feels ?
(disclaimer: this example is not meant to be taken personal
We have a technical problem here and we
shouldn't make it a personal problem if
we can avoid doing this.
k2r
> In any case, your mail has no god-given right
> to be accepted by their servers.
hey, the use-/internet works because people/systems _cooperate_.
and because admins act _reasonable.
Nobody wins anything if we keep some host on the
blacklists.
Everybody wins if we keep the blacklists
up-to-date. Admins will actually consider using
these lists, then!
k2r (I'm so naive tonight)
P.S. except from the spammers, of course...
Thats the question.
To me, blacklists are a way to solve a problem.
They do this by listing open relays.
So there is no reason for keeping a host
on the list, after the malconfiguration
has been fixed.
Every attempt to keep hosts on the list for having
been open relays once is meant to punish or brandmark somebody.
This is nobodys business and people should have
come over it since they finished puberty.
We are not the usenet-military-court.
And of course every list who keeps fixed
hosts on not by purpose is maintained by
irresponsible people.
It reminds me of people who are blocking the
lane on purpose because _they_ think that I'm
driving too fast.
regards,
k2r
> [...] Mac OS X is about 20 times larger, yet
> requires significantly less that 128MB
I do not know where you got this "information",
but MacOSX 1.2 on 256MB RAM pages as hell.
You don't want to "use" mosx below 128MB, because
nothing seroius would run without being paged to
disc.
But you definitely want to use MacOSX in General:-)
It's lovely and it feels like MacOS and *X at the same time.
k2r
> and the other with a common european one.
D-oh.
You didn't miss anything and I missed the
point where I should have read your posting again.
Sorry.
k2r
You missed on of my favorite details on the euro-coins:
Although the front is the same in every country, the back is designed individually.
That means that coins with different backsides from different countrys will start mixing over the years.
As the countrys and citizens already started to do.
Both will keep their nationality (backside) and be part of the European Community (frontside) at the same time.
This seems way more romantic to me than I ever expected the European politicians to be.
k2r
P.S. Some bank-person just called the people in Germany "europhorical". And the Euro just passed the 1:0.9 exchange-rate compared to the dollar. Upwards.
Okay.
Please write 1000 times:
"A RAID is not a backup!"
Yes, a RAID[1-6,7,10] increases availability but if you mess up your filesystem or rm -rf / you will have an exact copy of what's left on disc B. And no backup.
And if your house burnes down you even lose this.
It's essential for a real backup that
a) nothing is written to it after you made it.
b) you store it as far away from the original data as possible.
Incremental backup on the same media (multi session CD-R) doesn't comply with a)
Even making a new backup on your one-and-only DLT-Cartrigde / Spare HD might leave you in a state where your original data _AND_ you backup data is lost.
Just my paranoid 0.05 Euro.
And we invented the flame-wars!
IIRC I was 2:245/8.22. This was before the fido-classic / lite war started in Germany.
I flipped on the TV and saw raw porn right before my eyes
Npe, it can't have been real porn (tm). We have a law in Germany that defines in detail, what porn is.
And since we are Germans, I mean _really_detailed_ . For example: In Germany we now, from which angle on a man has an erection! It's the law!
And showing this on TV is illegal, so you can't have real porn on TV.
Mail-Ordering real (tm) porn is illegal, too.
So nothing can harm us. We are cute little citizens and the government cares for our mental health. Thank you!
Sorry, but the main cause for terrorism aren't the religious fundamentalists.
They are just a symptom for some major thing going wrong on this planet. Remember that there are even Terrorists who are Americans and place bombs (maybe even Antrax) in the US.
So It would be neccesary not only getting rid of the "Bin Laden"s but to change politics in general to have a real impact on the level of hate in this world.
And seriuosly, I doubt that Mr. "America first" Bush is capable of doing so.
k2r
(Neither I believe that out European politicians will get a clue, it's not only Mr. Bush)
I don't think that you will be able to fly within the next hours.
k2r
American jetliner crashes
November 12, 2001: 9:40 a.m. ET
Crash of Airbus leaving New York's JFK airport is first crash since Sept. 11.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 jetliner, crashed near New York's Kennedy International Airport just after 9 a.m. Monday as it was leaving JFK for Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, according to the FAA.
Details of the crash, including cause or the condition of people on the plane and the ground, were not immediately available. At least four buildings were reported on fire.
A large cloud of thick black smoke was visible from miles away following the crash. Local news broadcasters in New York were quoting witnesses as saying there was an explosion on the plane before the crash.
The crash, which occurred in the Rockaways section of Queens at 122nd and Rockaway Beach Blvd, is the first involving a U.S. airliner since the Sept. 11 terrorist attack that brought down four jets. That attack prompted a shutdown in the nation's air traffic system and sharply decreased demand for air travel by the public.
American Airlines officials had no immediate comment.
All three New York area airports - JFK, LaGuardia and Newark - were closed following the crash as were all New York City area bridges and tunnels.
Thats not exactly what you asked for but:
I got emailed somebody's resume from downunder. Maybe that is a fahionable way to apply for a job?
"Hey, I'm as stupid as 80% of all users, give me the job!"
k2r
will they ever learn?