I used to run Firefox all tricked out like that. AdBlock, NoScript, something-or-other to block Flash.... Sites couldn't sneak anything by me!
It got old very quickly, as very few sites, including a few of my own, worked all that well.
One thing I've noticed is that I get no 'bad' popups in Opera. I've never seen one. And yet the legitimate ones work fine. Firefox isn't quite there -- I still get the occasional undesired popup. Similarly, I can right-click on a text-only link and open it as a URL. My favorite rapid right-then-left click (to go back) worked out of the box, no extension needed.
I haven't used some of the extensions you mention, so I can't say that Opera compares to them. But Opera provides some of the features, and some of the others are things that I don't want.
On the other hand, now that they're free, they might grow enormously.
I got my free license key, and quickly decided that Opera was the best browser I've used. Whenever anyone asked, I raved about it. But I always found myself ending with, "But I probably wouldn't pay much for it."
I'm surprised they did this. I'd have expected their free-license-day to generate a lot of renewed interest in Opera.
Was this all of kernel.org that was moved over? I noticed no interruption in service.
However, kernel.org mentions that, as of April, it was being served from "quad Opteron servers, each with 24 GB of RAM and 10 TB of disk." Bandwidth shows that they're routinely pushing almost 300Mbps of traffic.
The photos show a single, unimpressive 2U machine. Can someone clarify exactly what was moved over, and why?
Microsoft Word has a great spell checker. Not only does it flag the wrong words, but half the time, it's correctly fixing stupid typos. Word isn't the only spell checker that works well; I'd argue that everything I've used lately, except for Lotus Notes, does a fabulous job.
However, I'm yet to see a 'grammar checker' that works well at all. I don't believe we will anytime soon, either. The reason is that English syntax can be somewhat insane, and is full of exceptions. It's easy to say that "teh" should be "the." It's not so easy to point out mistakes in comma usage, for example.
I've found that Word is rarely right about grammar. To its defense, I'm a decent writer, so I don't have flagrant errors for it to be catching. But when Word repeatedly pops up incorrect, sometimes nonsensical, corrections, it becomes incredibly frustrating.
There might one day be a halfway decent grammar checker, but I don't anticipate it. There's no substitute for a human proofreader. (This applies to spelling, two, because you might spell a word correctly, but use the wrong won.)
I use a Yaesu VX-2 (small ham radio) for the same purpose. It's got something like 900 memories, covers HF through 1GHz, and has a few features your average scanner doesn't like assigning names to memories, 10 dB attenuator, RF squelch, CTCSS/DCS decode, and -- get this -- very small size. (Throw out the stock antenna and put a real one on, though.)
As an added bonus, there's the experimental 'frequency counter,' which has come in useful a few times. (Though it's also proved utterly useless several times.) And it can be easily modified to transmit on frequencies such as FRS. (Disclaimer: it's only legal to transmit on ham frequencies with a ham radio license. Transmitting outside ham radio frequencies (via modification) is illegal even if you're licensed there -- the radio's not type certified.)
It doesn't do trunk tracking (or APCO project 25 digital voice), but this isn't a handicap in my case.
Jobs isn't exactly known for calm, quiet, polite negotiations. Companies that have crossed him tend to suddenly be dropped by Apple.
Suppose, just suppose, that he tells one of the labels to get lost. Will Apple break first (at the loss of sales of a major label), or will that major label break first (at the loss of sales from a major outlet)?
"With the ever-rising costs of fuel, we seem to forget those that are truly having problems affording it. No, not the homeless, but our own kids. 'Kids,' you ask? Yes, because being driven to school on the 'Yellow Dog' or the 'Edu-Express' better known as a school bus, is costing your state more money than ever before. In my neighborhood, we have a plethora of home connected by fiber and at least high-speed internet. So my question is, how can technology be better-implemented to ensure a student's studies and also lower the costs of fuel for the districts?"
Hook the busses up to Cat5 cords and use Power over Ethernet?
With all due respect, I'm not sure how this got modden "insightful."
I'm going to be a sophomore from college. I've forgotten a good deal of what I learned in high school.
It's not like I've forgotten the basic concepts, but if you asked me tomorrow to explain chemistry, I'd be hard-pressed to remember the most basic of concepts.
Plus, curricula change. What my father learned isn't exactly what I learned. (Although I'm willing to bet it's fairly similar -- it's not as if algebra didn't exist back then)
Furthermore, even if you had a crystal-clear recollection of everything you ever learned, and had a 4.0 GPA, that doesn't qualify you to teach it. I've had some absolutely brilliant teachers who simply cannot teach. There's a reason teachers have to learn how to be teachers.
I'm not saying homeschooling won't work. I know a few people who have been homeschooled, and they're exceptionally intelligent. But I vehemently disagree that passing high school is any qualification to teach.
I've heard it suggested that anti-spam techniques often go too far, culling good e-mail with the bad and perhaps even curtailing 1st Amendment rights...
Until the US Government starts filtering spam out of my inbox for me, I don't think there's any breach of my 1st Amendment rights going on.
When I was first learning to program in school, everyone kept telling me to use better variables than "a," "b", "c"... (This was maybe five years ago, mind you, not back in the days when you had to use single-letter variables.) My logic was that it was just a meaningless holder of some trivial data, so why bother giving it a fancy name?
I was eventually convinced to use better names, though better is a relative term. I started using full words, but if I didn't have a good name, the words would just be random words, not anything related to what the variables held. It was not uncommon for bugs in my programs to be because of things like me confusing the contents of "hats" and "fog"
In my spare time, I wrote a neat script that would parse all of my AIM logfiles, and generate tons of statistics. (In hindsight, it was pretty cool, although horribly inefficient.)
I kept adding new features to it. One day, I decided it would be neat to make the script output its own source code to the end of the HTML file it produced.
I had the script open itself, read the contents into a variable, and then echo that, along with a bunch of other variables, into the HTML file it generated.
With eager anticipation, I saved and closed my script, which at this point had grown pretty large, and represented one of the biggest pieces of code I've ever written. I ran it.
It exited, and I viewed the outputed HTML file... blank. I really wasn't that surprised -- I wasn't too sure that you could have a script open itself anyway. I went back to the script to try to work around it.
The script was a blank file. I sat there, having absolutely no clue what had just happened. My script, all my hard work, was gone.
It wasn't until a while later that I was working with file handlers that I started to laugh, suddenly realizing what I'd done. I had the script create a blank file (to be the output HTML), open that, and also open its own source code, and then write A to B. I committed my classic mistake, and wrote B (a blank file) to A (my script). If you told me that your program deleted itself, I wouldn't believe you. But I did it.
Nobody wants to be killed by a speeder, but nobody wants to pay to stop that from happening.
Solution: go after the egregious speeders. I've felt for a while that speeding in and of itself shouldn't be a crime. If I can do 40 where the sign says 30, and can do it safely, so be it. When someone comes by doing 95, arrest them for reckless driving. A kid at my old high school was caught doing 125, and got a written warning for speed.
Maybe if we started focusing on the *real* crimes (reckless driving, actaully giving penalties to DWI), we wouldn't need to fine people who haven't quite slowed down yet to the new speed limit that was suddenly revealed as they came around a bit turn.
I can confirm that the next-generation of several components of Services for UNIX are being integrated into Windows Server 2003 R2... Telnet Server & Client [is] present in the Windows Server 2003 R2 builds.
Any plans to move over to something secure like ssh?
Obviously not everyone has a computer in all classes, but if it's a course being taught in a lab, or if your school gives students laptops (as mine does), then it's not so far-fetched.
Rather than using something that sounds like it's full of bugs, why not write a 2-line CGI app and do 'polls'? You don't have to keep clicking and pointing. You can do more than A/B/C/D, even.
I'm still not sure that technology is what's going to 'fix' education. But I do think that, if we're going to use technology, we could at least do it right.
I'm not so sure. Sometimes I'm blown away by how dumb the "average Joe" is, but sometimes what they can do really amazes me.
myTunes is a good example: I one day set out to write a program to do what it did (not knowing it existed), and eventually came across it while Googling for details. I was very excited at what I'd found, thinking I was the only one on campus to have found it -- after all, who knew about packet sniffing to redirect the stream to disk? Surely, only a computer person as brilliant as me would know. Turns out that half the school already had it. To them, it's just a program to copy other peoples' music.
Same goes for this. They might not know how it works, but all it takes it copying-and-pasting a URL. My grandmother could do it.
Slashdot Mirror
derail... don't usually run at ground level
But, in the very unlikely event that it does derail, things are much, much worse?
Aww great, you had to screw up the nice even number. Now I can't rest until 2,000,000.
Can everyone -- except for you -- just download it again?
Probably because they're getting hammered by the Validator?
Standards Compliant Overloads?
S.C.O.?
*shudders*
I used to run Firefox all tricked out like that. AdBlock, NoScript, something-or-other to block Flash.... Sites couldn't sneak anything by me!
It got old very quickly, as very few sites, including a few of my own, worked all that well.
One thing I've noticed is that I get no 'bad' popups in Opera. I've never seen one. And yet the legitimate ones work fine. Firefox isn't quite there -- I still get the occasional undesired popup. Similarly, I can right-click on a text-only link and open it as a URL. My favorite rapid right-then-left click (to go back) worked out of the box, no extension needed.
I haven't used some of the extensions you mention, so I can't say that Opera compares to them. But Opera provides some of the features, and some of the others are things that I don't want.
On the other hand, now that they're free, they might grow enormously.
I got my free license key, and quickly decided that Opera was the best browser I've used. Whenever anyone asked, I raved about it. But I always found myself ending with, "But I probably wouldn't pay much for it."
I'm surprised they did this. I'd have expected their free-license-day to generate a lot of renewed interest in Opera.
Was this all of kernel.org that was moved over? I noticed no interruption in service.
However, kernel.org mentions that, as of April, it was being served from "quad Opteron servers, each with 24 GB of RAM and 10 TB of disk." Bandwidth shows that they're routinely pushing almost 300Mbps of traffic.
The photos show a single, unimpressive 2U machine. Can someone clarify exactly what was moved over, and why?
Microsoft Word has a great spell checker. Not only does it flag the wrong words, but half the time, it's correctly fixing stupid typos. Word isn't the only spell checker that works well; I'd argue that everything I've used lately, except for Lotus Notes, does a fabulous job.
However, I'm yet to see a 'grammar checker' that works well at all. I don't believe we will anytime soon, either. The reason is that English syntax can be somewhat insane, and is full of exceptions. It's easy to say that "teh" should be "the." It's not so easy to point out mistakes in comma usage, for example.
I've found that Word is rarely right about grammar. To its defense, I'm a decent writer, so I don't have flagrant errors for it to be catching. But when Word repeatedly pops up incorrect, sometimes nonsensical, corrections, it becomes incredibly frustrating.
There might one day be a halfway decent grammar checker, but I don't anticipate it. There's no substitute for a human proofreader. (This applies to spelling, two, because you might spell a word correctly, but use the wrong won.)
I use a Yaesu VX-2 (small ham radio) for the same purpose. It's got something like 900 memories, covers HF through 1GHz, and has a few features your average scanner doesn't like assigning names to memories, 10 dB attenuator, RF squelch, CTCSS/DCS decode, and -- get this -- very small size. (Throw out the stock antenna and put a real one on, though.)
As an added bonus, there's the experimental 'frequency counter,' which has come in useful a few times. (Though it's also proved utterly useless several times.) And it can be easily modified to transmit on frequencies such as FRS. (Disclaimer: it's only legal to transmit on ham frequencies with a ham radio license. Transmitting outside ham radio frequencies (via modification) is illegal even if you're licensed there -- the radio's not type certified.)
It doesn't do trunk tracking (or APCO project 25 digital voice), but this isn't a handicap in my case.
I picked mine up for around $125.
Jobs isn't exactly known for calm, quiet, polite negotiations. Companies that have crossed him tend to suddenly be dropped by Apple.
Suppose, just suppose, that he tells one of the labels to get lost. Will Apple break first (at the loss of sales of a major label), or will that major label break first (at the loss of sales from a major outlet)?
They should know better than to mess with Steve.
"With the ever-rising costs of fuel, we seem to forget those that are truly having problems affording it. No, not the homeless, but our own kids. 'Kids,' you ask? Yes, because being driven to school on the 'Yellow Dog' or the 'Edu-Express' better known as a school bus, is costing your state more money than ever before. In my neighborhood, we have a plethora of home connected by fiber and at least high-speed internet. So my question is, how can technology be better-implemented to ensure a student's studies and also lower the costs of fuel for the districts?"
Hook the busses up to Cat5 cords and use Power over Ethernet?
Sometimes technology isn't the answer.
With all due respect, I'm not sure how this got modden "insightful."
I'm going to be a sophomore from college. I've forgotten a good deal of what I learned in high school.
It's not like I've forgotten the basic concepts, but if you asked me tomorrow to explain chemistry, I'd be hard-pressed to remember the most basic of concepts.
Plus, curricula change. What my father learned isn't exactly what I learned. (Although I'm willing to bet it's fairly similar -- it's not as if algebra didn't exist back then)
Furthermore, even if you had a crystal-clear recollection of everything you ever learned, and had a 4.0 GPA, that doesn't qualify you to teach it. I've had some absolutely brilliant teachers who simply cannot teach. There's a reason teachers have to learn how to be teachers.
I'm not saying homeschooling won't work. I know a few people who have been homeschooled, and they're exceptionally intelligent. But I vehemently disagree that passing high school is any qualification to teach.
I've heard it suggested that anti-spam techniques often go too far, culling good e-mail with the bad and perhaps even curtailing 1st Amendment rights...
Until the US Government starts filtering spam out of my inbox for me, I don't think there's any breach of my 1st Amendment rights going on.
When I was first learning to program in school, everyone kept telling me to use better variables than "a," "b", "c"... (This was maybe five years ago, mind you, not back in the days when you had to use single-letter variables.) My logic was that it was just a meaningless holder of some trivial data, so why bother giving it a fancy name?
I was eventually convinced to use better names, though better is a relative term. I started using full words, but if I didn't have a good name, the words would just be random words, not anything related to what the variables held. It was not uncommon for bugs in my programs to be because of things like me confusing the contents of "hats" and "fog"
In my spare time, I wrote a neat script that would parse all of my AIM logfiles, and generate tons of statistics. (In hindsight, it was pretty cool, although horribly inefficient.)
I kept adding new features to it. One day, I decided it would be neat to make the script output its own source code to the end of the HTML file it produced.
I had the script open itself, read the contents into a variable, and then echo that, along with a bunch of other variables, into the HTML file it generated.
With eager anticipation, I saved and closed my script, which at this point had grown pretty large, and represented one of the biggest pieces of code I've ever written. I ran it.
It exited, and I viewed the outputed HTML file... blank. I really wasn't that surprised -- I wasn't too sure that you could have a script open itself anyway. I went back to the script to try to work around it.
The script was a blank file. I sat there, having absolutely no clue what had just happened. My script, all my hard work, was gone.
It wasn't until a while later that I was working with file handlers that I started to laugh, suddenly realizing what I'd done. I had the script create a blank file (to be the output HTML), open that, and also open its own source code, and then write A to B. I committed my classic mistake, and wrote B (a blank file) to A (my script). If you told me that your program deleted itself, I wouldn't believe you. But I did it.
Good thing, too. I was all excited about the conference until I found out that wire strippers wouldn't be handed out. :(
I think that line in the original post should read:
+------+ +--------+
don't bet your | 60GB |, | 15,000 |-song model on it.
+------+ +--------+
It's free publicity for FexEx.
I know! I'd never even heard of the guys until I saw the article.
Next thing you know, there'll be a competitor to Coke or something!
Nobody wants to be killed by a speeder, but nobody wants to pay to stop that from happening.
Solution: go after the egregious speeders. I've felt for a while that speeding in and of itself shouldn't be a crime. If I can do 40 where the sign says 30, and can do it safely, so be it. When someone comes by doing 95, arrest them for reckless driving. A kid at my old high school was caught doing 125, and got a written warning for speed.
Maybe if we started focusing on the *real* crimes (reckless driving, actaully giving penalties to DWI), we wouldn't need to fine people who haven't quite slowed down yet to the new speed limit that was suddenly revealed as they came around a bit turn.
I can confirm that the next-generation of several components of Services for UNIX are being integrated into Windows Server 2003 R2... Telnet Server & Client [is] present in the Windows Server 2003 R2 builds.
Any plans to move over to something secure like ssh?
Anyone got the link? We oughta all have a look.
If you outlaw GPG, only outlaws will have GPG!
Obviously not everyone has a computer in all classes, but if it's a course being taught in a lab, or if your school gives students laptops (as mine does), then it's not so far-fetched.
Rather than using something that sounds like it's full of bugs, why not write a 2-line CGI app and do 'polls'? You don't have to keep clicking and pointing. You can do more than A/B/C/D, even.
I'm still not sure that technology is what's going to 'fix' education. But I do think that, if we're going to use technology, we could at least do it right.
How many of you only clicked that because it was mentioned alongside breasts?
I'm not so sure. Sometimes I'm blown away by how dumb the "average Joe" is, but sometimes what they can do really amazes me.
myTunes is a good example: I one day set out to write a program to do what it did (not knowing it existed), and eventually came across it while Googling for details. I was very excited at what I'd found, thinking I was the only one on campus to have found it -- after all, who knew about packet sniffing to redirect the stream to disk? Surely, only a computer person as brilliant as me would know. Turns out that half the school already had it. To them, it's just a program to copy other peoples' music.
Same goes for this. They might not know how it works, but all it takes it copying-and-pasting a URL. My grandmother could do it.
As for the rest of you, if you think Windows is so bad, why pirate it?
So we can run the few Windows applications that don't yet have good Linux ports?