Bulldog seem to do a good deal, and will provide voice too if you want.
I'm with demon internet who also don't (and won't) put stupid and arbitrary restrictions on use of the connection. I pay a few pounds more than some services but I get a fixed IP and can do what I like as long as it is legal.
Sometime in the next 30 days I should get upgraded at no cost to the 2MB service.
GET http://www.ajs.com/~ajs/slashdot.svg --> 200 OK Connection: close Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:53:03 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes ETag: "76dc6-cb7-f7f7ed00" Server: Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora) Content-Length: 3255 Content-Type: text/xml Last-Modified: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 03:40:04 GMT Client-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:53:57 GMT Client-Peer: 24.61.76.204:80 Client-Response-Num: 1
Hmmm... bad Content-Type possibly? This is where IE does what IMHO is a good job of double guessing the content type based on the file extension and "upgrades" the content type.
The point here is whether or not the death penalty exists only to appease people.
I think there is a difference between appeasing their sense of hurt, appeasing their sense of pride and appeasing their sense of justice.
I don't see any "killing people just to feel good about it.", The point about the law is you don't need to kill people to "feel good about it" you kill them because that is the law. The law by pre-arrangement removes personal feeling of the incident out of it.
Whether the death penalty prevents crimes or not is still a running debate. I don't see that it can prevent most crimes as most crimes don't warrant the death penalty.
I don't insist that oyu agree that any crime warrants the death penalty but I do thihk that those who support a death penalty reject your description of their reasoning, and find (some of them at least) that they don't want to kill people merely because it makes them feel better.
I'm not sure if your main objection is in the motive you suspect or the fact that it involves killing people.
yeah, it "has to be controlled" to avoid unfavourable consequences.
it would be nice if we divided the planet up so we all had 2 acres and a cow, but some folk would soon gamble it away, sell it or poison the cow, as you rightly point out, the world is not a fit place for some ideals.
I think the positions is not "eye for an eye" (I will do to you what you did) or that it is "good to kill people who do something bad".
I think the position is: Here is the law, here are the punishments; if you break the law, you get the punishments, but before you get punished it must be shown that you did break the law.
Now that has nothing to do with revenge, it's just a set of laws and consequences set out in advance.
I'm not trying to debate this one with you, justing pointing out that the evidence which lead to the "warped mind" conclusion was actually a little warped, making the conclusion very natural but not very helpful.
That you are not catholic or neccessarily believe in God shows in your understanding of the "new testament is the fulfilment of the old testament and falls pretty much on the side of those who oppose the death penalty"
The new testament does not wash out the old testament in any way, it only removes the requirement to keep the law of Moses. It also fulfils the main event that the law of Moses was looking forward to.
The law of the land should be strictly executed so that the injured and the guilty can receive justice without resentment. The injured should not have to plead for justice and the guilty should not feel their punishment comes because of actions of the injured.
Redemption is salvation from the justice of an offended God whose laws have been unknowingly broken, and on condition of repentance where the laws have been knowingly broken, and has nothing to do with punishment under national law which should still apply, albeit also tempered with mercy based on the conditions of the crime and the guily. (i.e. a beggar stealing for food is not the same as a school kid stealing food for kicks)
The repentant do not seek to shirk just punishment.
I don't see any strong case where the new testament opposes the death penalty. The case of the non-stoning of the woman taken in adultery is not a case against the death penalty but a case against partially applied law. The law was not spoken against, only the attitude of the accusers, who we will note managed to take the woman "in the very act" while the man somehow escaped. Also the accusers were not particularly interested in justice as much as they were in creating an awkward situation. It is worth noting that the accused was told "go and sin no more" not "never mind"
Its also worth noting that "judge not that ye be not judged" was given to the people generally and not to ecclesiastical or legal leaders who most definately are judges.
There is a lot there to show that it is not clear to say that christians should not support the death penalty. Certainly they have no business hating the condemned, but the law is set in place, and then executed. The law is for the good government of the people, and nothing personal.
Why don't you look at my website and check out my CV?
1) The E200 Smartphone Homescreen for Orange.
I took the IHomeScreenPlugin interface and implemented it (naturally) but on the same object I also implemented IHomeScreenPluginEnvironment, so that a plugin could host other plugins.
I then allowed to synchronize arbitrary instances of this plugin, so that selections on one plugin could decide which other plugins were shown in the smartphone homescreen - which lead to some amaxing homescreen customizations by end users.
One simple general solution with so many configurations.
2) Once I lost sshd on a remote machine so I wrote some shell scripts which found a spare psuedo-tty to run "su" under and re-start sshd, then I invoked these via a cgi. No need to ask the hosting co. to reboot and disturb the customers.
3) Once solaris was taking too long to swap-off a swap file and I needed the disk space now, so a simple: > 1GB.swap to truncate the file. It was the last thing the machine ever did till we rebooted it 20 minutes later. Well thats certainly something to think about!
Thats the most entertaining read I had for a long time.
First you tell me what I didn't mean to say at all.
Then you tell me what I didn't even try to say.
Then you use those two points to try to insult me.
Thats amazing.
I'm referring to Feynman repairing his neighbours radio set which made a nasty whistling noise as it warmed up. He worked out by thinking alone and what he knew, that if he swapped the valves around the audio stage would warm up after thr RF stage instead of the other way around and hey presto, no whistling.
As for reading slashdot and freshmeat, I have to have something to include in my thoughts.
Slashdot, freshmeat, the register and my mind have been very employable and I intend to keep it that way.
Some bosses want "work", some bosses want "results".
My boss wants "results" and gets them. They are ingenious results and he wouldn't get these from someone whose qualification was merely being willing to work 60 hours a week for the same pay.
I get my results Feynman style by thinking, walking around and trying things out, by reading slashdot and freshmeat and seeing whats going on.
I work for a small company, I think it makes a difference.
You are already feeling the pinch of the scarcity of switch ports, juggling them around isn't a long term solution and one day the pinch will be very inconvenient.
Better get a new switch now before it gets urgent instead of afterwards.
The expense will be offset against the convenience now and the lack of severe inconvenience in the future.
How can making the decision FOR the drinker promote responsibility? It abdicates all pretence of responsibility and delegates it to the machine.
While we are at it, why don't we put flouride in the water to save kids learning how to clean their own teeth and look after their own body. [Oh, wait, I forgot they do that in some parts of the world]
er...
While we are at it why don't we just put condom machines in schools and call it "responsible sex" to save kids from having to learn the social, emotional and biological consequences of their actions, or even waiting until they understand the consequences. [Oh, wait, I forgot they do that already in some parts of the world]
er...
While we are at it why don't we just put real low speed limits over all the roads to make them "safe" and so drivers aren't troubled with the responsibility of adjusting to road conditions. [Oh wait, I forgot they do that already in some parts of the world]
I know, why don't we just plug babies into a virtual social system that can live their life for them to save them making any mistakes, and if they do slip through the cracks, we can numb their brains to hide the truth from them. [Silly me, I forgot cable TV and narcotics form the social structure already in some parts of the world]
Seriously, when did you last get to make a decision that mattered?
And I'm not talking about deciding whether or not your ready meal had the right amount of fat or sodium in it, I mean when was someone else glad that you were alive, glad that you were there?
Reclaim your community (neighbours as friends) and dump the "network" and regain responsible and satisfied living.
or... you can just do what your TV tells you and receive the satisfaction it programmes you to receive.
[If you know what I'm talking about then I'm not talking to you, I'm just annoyed about folk who know and do what "the box" tells them to]
Jeff Pulvers Free World Dialup came before skype, does what skype does AND will forward your calls to your asterisk server using the IAX protocol.
For that reason I will be using FWD and cannmot use skype. FWD is not open as much as I would like, but I least I don't have to use their client software to take a call.
I don't know if IAX will let you originate an FWD terminating call.
Like the offspring of the so-called proto-mammal can now do?
I think the answer to your question is "yes."
Ity shoulda developed the ability to look ahead and prepare, like MS are, like we are, like we all do.
It's a battle, not of teeth, but ideas and threats. Much more civilized. What dies is an idea or a philosphy in the minds of the playing field, not lives.
Is it just as serious? I'll leave you to answer that.
Also consider the duty cycle, if your PC is sending out packets all in one go then maybe some of them get dropped by the router even though the avereage kb/s is without the bounds of your link.
I came across a project a while ago that sent thernet pause frames in between (which the router should drop) in order to space out the data to avoid overrunning the router buffer.
I tmeans your printer thinks it has A4 paper in it (it probably has) but your printout has been rendered for LETTER (american) size paper.
Fixes (all of them): 1) under printers/faxes set your printer properties AND prefernces for the printer to specify A4 size paper. 2) Before you print, choose print setup and make sure A4 paper is selected AND THEN SAVE that document.
Maybe also edit your template documents to use A4 paper too.
Slashdot Mirror
:S
What???
VIM is as freaky as that old DOS game Loom.
Who is to know what wonders lie beneath every single combination of possible keystrokes.
Sam
Bulldog seem to do a good deal, and will provide voice too if you want.
I'm with demon internet who also don't (and won't) put stupid and arbitrary restrictions on use of the connection. I pay a few pounds more than some services but I get a fixed IP and can do what I like as long as it is legal.
Sometime in the next 30 days I should get upgraded at no cost to the 2MB service.
Samn
So why did some moderator think that firefox support of SVG was off-topic?
Maybe because I was dissing the webserver?
Or maybe they thought I was dissing firefox?
Or maybe I'm just paranoid?
I've seen off-topic, I've been off-topic, but that wasn't it.
THIS one is off topic, though, feel free to mod it down.
Sam
Shame that my Firefox 1.06 fails to displau it.
[Looks for clues]
$ GET -UuSsed http://www.ajs.com/~ajs/slashdot.svg
GET http://www.ajs.com/~ajs/slashdot.svg
User-Agent: lwp-request/2.06
GET http://www.ajs.com/~ajs/slashdot.svg --> 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:53:03 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "76dc6-cb7-f7f7ed00"
Server: Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora)
Content-Length: 3255
Content-Type: text/xml
Last-Modified: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 03:40:04 GMT
Client-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 06:53:57 GMT
Client-Peer: 24.61.76.204:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Hmmm... bad Content-Type possibly?
This is where IE does what IMHO is a good job of double guessing the content type based on the file extension and "upgrades" the content type.
Sam
I should be ashamed, I know.
What can I say? I have to write stuff that sticks in the eyes of agency types, and it reduces me to this.
Sam
(To think that I should call it PERL! Blush)
The point here is whether or not the death penalty exists only to appease people.
I think there is a difference between appeasing their sense of hurt, appeasing their sense of pride and appeasing their sense of justice.
I don't see any "killing people just to feel good about it.", The point about the law is you don't need to kill people to "feel good about it" you kill them because that is the law. The law by pre-arrangement removes personal feeling of the incident out of it.
Whether the death penalty prevents crimes or not is still a running debate. I don't see that it can prevent most crimes as most crimes don't warrant the death penalty.
I don't insist that oyu agree that any crime warrants the death penalty but I do thihk that those who support a death penalty reject your description of their reasoning, and find (some of them at least) that they don't want to kill people merely because it makes them feel better.
I'm not sure if your main objection is in the motive you suspect or the fact that it involves killing people.
Sam
You are right, I had mistaken what you said for hippie christianity, and you have my apology.
I later regretted the distainful tone of my post, and I recollect that I was answering more than just what you had posted.
Apologies.
Sam
A vastly under-publicised piece of wisdom there.
yeah, it "has to be controlled" to avoid unfavourable consequences.
it would be nice if we divided the planet up so we all had 2 acres and a cow, but some folk would soon gamble it away, sell it or poison the cow, as you rightly point out, the world is not a fit place for some ideals.
Sam
err..
I think the positions is not "eye for an eye" (I will do to you what you did) or that it is "good to kill people who do something bad".
I think the position is: Here is the law, here are the punishments; if you break the law, you get the punishments, but before you get punished it must be shown that you did break the law.
Now that has nothing to do with revenge, it's just a set of laws and consequences set out in advance.
I'm not trying to debate this one with you, justing pointing out that the evidence which lead to the "warped mind" conclusion was actually a little warped, making the conclusion very natural but not very helpful.
Sam
Exactly, well said.
The laws of God deal with an eternal world with no physical death, only loss of contact with God.
The laws of man deal with a mortal world and maintaining a decent form of life for that brief span.
Sam
That you are not catholic or neccessarily believe in God shows in your understanding of the "new testament is the fulfilment of the old testament and falls pretty much on the side of those who oppose the death penalty"
The new testament does not wash out the old testament in any way, it only removes the requirement to keep the law of Moses. It also fulfils the main event that the law of Moses was looking forward to.
The law of the land should be strictly executed so that the injured and the guilty can receive justice without resentment. The injured should not have to plead for justice and the guilty should not feel their punishment comes because of actions of the injured.
Redemption is salvation from the justice of an offended God whose laws have been unknowingly broken, and on condition of repentance where the laws have been knowingly broken, and has nothing to do with punishment under national law which should still apply, albeit also tempered with mercy based on the conditions of the crime and the guily. (i.e. a beggar stealing for food is not the same as a school kid stealing food for kicks)
The repentant do not seek to shirk just punishment.
I don't see any strong case where the new testament opposes the death penalty. The case of the non-stoning of the woman taken in adultery is not a case against the death penalty but a case against partially applied law. The law was not spoken against, only the attitude of the accusers, who we will note managed to take the woman "in the very act" while the man somehow escaped. Also the accusers were not particularly interested in justice as much as they were in creating an awkward situation. It is worth noting that the accused was told "go and sin no more" not "never mind"
Its also worth noting that "judge not that ye be not judged" was given to the people generally and not to ecclesiastical or legal leaders who most definately are judges.
There is a lot there to show that it is not clear to say that christians should not support the death penalty. Certainly they have no business hating the condemned, but the law is set in place, and then executed. The law is for the good government of the people, and nothing personal.
Sam
Why don't you look at my website and check out my CV?
1) The E200 Smartphone Homescreen for Orange.
I took the IHomeScreenPlugin interface and implemented it (naturally) but on the same object I also implemented IHomeScreenPluginEnvironment, so that a plugin could host other plugins.
I then allowed to synchronize arbitrary instances of this plugin, so that selections on one plugin could decide which other plugins were shown in the smartphone homescreen - which lead to some amaxing homescreen customizations by end users.
One simple general solution with so many configurations.
2) Once I lost sshd on a remote machine so I wrote some shell scripts which found a spare psuedo-tty to run "su" under and re-start sshd, then I invoked these via a cgi. No need to ask the hosting co. to reboot and disturb the customers.
3) Once solaris was taking too long to swap-off a swap file and I needed the disk space now, so a simple:
> 1GB.swap
to truncate the file. It was the last thing the machine ever did till we rebooted it 20 minutes later. Well thats certainly something to think about!
Now, you show me some examples.
Sam
Thats the most entertaining read I had for a long time.
First you tell me what I didn't mean to say at all.
Then you tell me what I didn't even try to say.
Then you use those two points to try to insult me.
Thats amazing.
I'm referring to Feynman repairing his neighbours radio set which made a nasty whistling noise as it warmed up. He worked out by thinking alone and what he knew, that if he swapped the valves around the audio stage would warm up after thr RF stage instead of the other way around and hey presto, no whistling.
As for reading slashdot and freshmeat, I have to have something to include in my thoughts.
Slashdot, freshmeat, the register and my mind have been very employable and I intend to keep it that way.
Sam
You raise a good point.
Some bosses want "work", some bosses want "results".
My boss wants "results" and gets them. They are ingenious results and he wouldn't get these from someone whose qualification was merely being willing to work 60 hours a week for the same pay.
I get my results Feynman style by thinking, walking around and trying things out, by reading slashdot and freshmeat and seeing whats going on.
I work for a small company, I think it makes a difference.
Sam
Gosh. Indeed.
Sam
Well, that makes sense.
You are already feeling the pinch of the scarcity of switch ports, juggling them around isn't a long term solution and one day the pinch will be very inconvenient.
Better get a new switch now before it gets urgent instead of afterwards.
The expense will be offset against the convenience now and the lack of severe inconvenience in the future.
Sam
I like this idea.
First get a written refusal in response to a written request to open NTP on the firewall.
Then use this to justify a hardware purchase for the clock hardware.
Wait till bosses realise that a $500 piece of kit and a couple of days setting up could be replaced by 5 mins configuration by a dolt.
Sam
Responsible drinking my eye!
How can making the decision FOR the drinker promote responsibility? It abdicates all pretence of responsibility and delegates it to the machine.
While we are at it, why don't we put flouride in the water to save kids learning how to clean their own teeth and look after their own body.
[Oh, wait, I forgot they do that in some parts of the world]
er...
While we are at it why don't we just put condom machines in schools and call it "responsible sex" to save kids from having to learn the social, emotional and biological consequences of their actions, or even waiting until they understand the consequences.
[Oh, wait, I forgot they do that already in some parts of the world]
er...
While we are at it why don't we just put real low speed limits over all the roads to make them "safe" and so drivers aren't troubled with the responsibility of adjusting to road conditions.
[Oh wait, I forgot they do that already in some parts of the world]
I know, why don't we just plug babies into a virtual social system that can live their life for them to save them making any mistakes, and if they do slip through the cracks, we can numb their brains to hide the truth from them.
[Silly me, I forgot cable TV and narcotics form the social structure already in some parts of the world]
Seriously, when did you last get to make a decision that mattered?
And I'm not talking about deciding whether or not your ready meal had the right amount of fat or sodium in it, I mean when was someone else glad that you were alive, glad that you were there?
Reclaim your community (neighbours as friends) and dump the "network" and regain responsible and satisfied living.
or... you can just do what your TV tells you and receive the satisfaction it programmes you to receive.
[If you know what I'm talking about then I'm not talking to you, I'm just annoyed about folk who know and do what "the box" tells them to]
Sam
I htink that you are saying that the name as given in the SMTP HELO statement does not match reverse DNS.
The HELO name usually defaults to the hostname.
This implies if the guy can get his box to HELO with what the IP resolves to he will be OK.
I'm just clarifying what I think you are saying to make the next step obvious.
Sam
Jeff Pulvers Free World Dialup came before skype, does what skype does AND will forward your calls to your asterisk server using the IAX protocol.
For that reason I will be using FWD and cannmot use skype. FWD is not open as much as I would like, but I least I don't have to use their client software to take a call.
I don't know if IAX will let you originate an FWD terminating call.
Sam
Like the offspring of the so-called proto-mammal can now do?
I think the answer to your question is "yes."
Ity shoulda developed the ability to look ahead and prepare, like MS are, like we are, like we all do.
It's a battle, not of teeth, but ideas and threats. Much more civilized. What dies is an idea or a philosphy in the minds of the playing field, not lives.
Is it just as serious? I'll leave you to answer that.
Sam
Also consider the duty cycle, if your PC is sending out packets all in one go then maybe some of them get dropped by the router even though the avereage kb/s is without the bounds of your link.
I came across a project a while ago that sent thernet pause frames in between (which the router should drop) in order to space out the data to avoid overrunning the router buffer.
I wish I could remember what it was.
Sam
It means the longer you wait, the more stable the kernel will be.
No more lucky dips, and less need to depend on the vendors tracked patchsets.
Sam
Tell them to buy a new dell and transfer their personal files for them.
Then sell their old computer with Linux or recovered from the windows partition..
Sam
I tmeans your printer thinks it has A4 paper in it (it probably has) but your printout has been rendered for LETTER (american) size paper.
Fixes (all of them):
1) under printers/faxes set your printer properties AND prefernces for the printer to specify A4 size paper.
2) Before you print, choose print setup and make sure A4 paper is selected AND THEN SAVE that document.
Maybe also edit your template documents to use A4 paper too.
Sam