Any which distro do you think Mandrake is based on? Are you not slightly worried that if RH goes down, then a lot of the development work that made mandrake what it is today, will also cease - therefore there will be less of the cool advances that RH made?
Anyway, if the company goes down, their software won't it's open and free. You can still install an up-to-date Kernel, a new version of Gnome or KDE, and whatever else you like on it. It's not like what would happen if MS stopped producing Windows updates.
Previous users of Windows ARE eligible for upgrades, if they also used Mandrake or SUSE. It's not just ANY users of Mandrake and SUSE though - it's only those who have purchased a retail copy of the OS, in a box, with a manual. RedHat might give me $10 back for purchasing RedHAt 7.3 after purchasing Mandrake 8.2, but I'm saving even more money by not buying either. In the UK, you could buy Windows 98 for less than the price of these two OSs and the rebate. Just goes to show it's not easy to please everyone:-)
This screenshot shows Opera displaying a web page without underlining the links.
Is "skinning" buttons part of CSS, or is it just a weird MS thing? I've not seen any browser implement it exactly the same way as MS does, although Konqueror comes close, but then I don't really care if a web page author can change the colours of buttons on pages I'm reading. I'd rather he/she didn't in fact.
If a school buys a license for Windows XP, and they tell MS that they have 50 computers, and MS notices that Windows XP hgas only been activated 35 times from that school, then it's painfully obvious that 15 of their computers are not running Windows XP. Yeah I know there are probably ways around this (like imaging the hard disk) but do you think all teachers are going to be able to do this?
In KDE, you use Konqueror to browse the internet and you use it to browse your file system too. The difference being that Linux (or Unix) doesn't stop working properly when you remove Konqueror. If it's impossible to remove the browser in Windows, then it's either a design flaw in Windows, or a blatant monopolistic attempt at keeping IE at the top of the browser charts. It's pretty obvious.
Lock down all ports on the server except SSH, and force the cash register client machines to tunnel through SSH for everything. I use it at home, work and university. It's better to be over security-conscious than being to relaxed about it.
However, that's just covering up the symptoms of a greater problem. It would be better if credit cards used a public/private key system, where the acocunt number is sent to the central server which responds with a random encryption challenge, then a chip on the card encrypts the string using it's key and replies. That way no useful security information is being pased around for others to intercept and use.
The site is slashdotted. For those curious (as I was) about this game, have a look at the homepage. It has reviews and screenshots. Anyone got a cached copy of the article?
That is so cool. It makes me wonder though, why Apple doesn't come up with designs like this themselves. yeah sure, they come up with a lot of original stuff and cool designs, but having more to choose from would surely be an advantage. The transparent cover over the hard drive and battery could do with being tinted blue - it's just a wee bit too clear I think. Wish I could afford an iBook to do this to:o)
You know that on top of that you could build a 32 bit extension to an 16 bit OS, running on... ...and you too could eb that world class company they aspire to be;-)
Yeah, but unfortunately it's not going to be any use for LAN parties, as the story suggests. That's a shame, because it would definitely stand out at the LAN parties.
So this will be good news for anyone who writes software that gets round e-book encryption. After all, its the user that's instructing the software to do it, just like the user is instructing Kazaa to download the pirated music.
Also, it'll be good news for the writers of Back Orifice, who can now publish their software quite freely, or sell it in PC World, since it's the *user* that's doing something wrong.
I've seen postmaster@ bounce before. I guess the domain probably doesn't exist any more (being hopeful) since I reported them to someone a bit higher up. I know there's *always* an address to complain to, but how many spam server admins read their root e-mail? The address existing isn't quite as good as the e-mail being read.
Slashdot is in a fairly unique position as far as this goes. Okay, so there are some other geek news sites, but I along with a lot of other people will always read Slashdot. Yahoo on the other hand is one of the millions of web based e-mail services. I'm sure there will be others prepared to offer free POP3 e-mail, causing people who rely on such free services to switch away from Yahoo. I use my own domain (which I could probably get for the price of a Yahoo POP3 account) and would not switch to Yahoo as a matter of principle.
Most of what I recieve has a Yahoo address in the "from" header, but has been routed through some middle eastern spam relay. You should always check to see what server the e-mail was sent through when complaining to someone about it. I find this is quite reliable in stopping the flow of spam (I've not has spam at my home account this year yet). If the server has no address to complain to, contact their upstream provider.
Without giving out my Hotmail address to anyone, I received spam. Now I've given up on trying to block spam going into the account and just let it happen. I use that address to sign up to services on the web with, as I no longer care about it. My Yahoo account has a lot of spam too, although I got it intending to use it as my "signing up to new online services" address, so I can understand it having spam. I've heard rumours (and going by the privacy agreements it's prefectly possible) that web-based mail companies sell your e-mail address to mailing list companies. Owning a web-based email address is effectively opting in for spam. How can companies do that, and still announce publicly that they are working hard to try and reduce spam?
I can see this getting slashdotted fairly quickly if they had more information on the site, since they seem to want to do everything as images. And the site has one paragraph of text and no links when viewed in Lynx. Not very geek-friendly.
Has anyone successfully got SVG (scalable vector graphics) working in Konqueror? I'm not just talking about static images, but fully ECMA-scriptable ones, like you get in Mozilla or Internet Explorer with Adobe's plug-in. How easy would it be to get the Adobe plug-in to work in Konqueror using something like CrossOver? I'm surprised at the apparent lack fo support for an open graphics standard in the open source world.
Having support for all the major media formats is good though, because I don't intend buying a television when I move out of my parents' house, so I'd be really happy to watch streaming videos in my favourite operating system.
I have about 200 bookmarks. I've got no speed problem with Mozilla. It starts about as quick as IE in WIndows on my box. Maybe if you know of such "clunky" code, you could change something in it, or even just suggest a change to someone else to make? And as far as stability goes, It crashes less than IE6 on Wink2K. I've not had NS4.78 or Mozilla crash in ages, but then I tend to ignore sites that have crap or incompatible designs.
On that mentality, Linux is being as bad as MS in re-ripping off an idea from Sun. If one car manufacturer releases a model with built-in GPS/sat-nav, and others follow, do we say they're ripping off an innovative idea? To compete in an industry you must either provide what your competitors do, or provide something better.
What came first - the chicken or the egg? Well in this case it was the monkey:o)
I think this is great work from the Mono team. They've passed one of the biggest hurdles in implementing a compiler. At university we have been using Java in situations where they *could* have made us use c#. If in the future they do say "we want you to use c#", I can happily stay on my linux box and use it. It's always good news when there's yet another thing that Linux can do just as well as MS.
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Go Mandrake today!
Any which distro do you think Mandrake is based on? Are you not slightly worried that if RH goes down, then a lot of the development work that made mandrake what it is today, will also cease - therefore there will be less of the cool advances that RH made?
Anyway, if the company goes down, their software won't it's open and free. You can still install an up-to-date Kernel, a new version of Gnome or KDE, and whatever else you like on it. It's not like what would happen if MS stopped producing Windows updates.
Previous users of Windows ARE eligible for upgrades, if they also used Mandrake or SUSE. It's not just ANY users of Mandrake and SUSE though - it's only those who have purchased a retail copy of the OS, in a box, with a manual. RedHat might give me $10 back for purchasing RedHAt 7.3 after purchasing Mandrake 8.2, but I'm saving even more money by not buying either. In the UK, you could buy Windows 98 for less than the price of these two OSs and the rebate. Just goes to show it's not easy to please everyone :-)
This screenshot shows Opera displaying a web page without underlining the links.
Is "skinning" buttons part of CSS, or is it just a weird MS thing? I've not seen any browser implement it exactly the same way as MS does, although Konqueror comes close, but then I don't really care if a web page author can change the colours of buttons on pages I'm reading. I'd rather he/she didn't in fact.
If a school buys a license for Windows XP, and they tell MS that they have 50 computers, and MS notices that Windows XP hgas only been activated 35 times from that school, then it's painfully obvious that 15 of their computers are not running Windows XP. Yeah I know there are probably ways around this (like imaging the hard disk) but do you think all teachers are going to be able to do this?
I didn't type the text that you quoted ;-)
In KDE, you use Konqueror to browse the internet and you use it to browse your file system too. The difference being that Linux (or Unix) doesn't stop working properly when you remove Konqueror. If it's impossible to remove the browser in Windows, then it's either a design flaw in Windows, or a blatant monopolistic attempt at keeping IE at the top of the browser charts. It's pretty obvious.
Lock down all ports on the server except SSH, and force the cash register client machines to tunnel through SSH for everything. I use it at home, work and university. It's better to be over security-conscious than being to relaxed about it.
However, that's just covering up the symptoms of a greater problem. It would be better if credit cards used a public/private key system, where the acocunt number is sent to the central server which responds with a random encryption challenge, then a chip on the card encrypts the string using it's key and replies. That way no useful security information is being pased around for others to intercept and use.
The site is slashdotted. For those curious (as I was) about this game, have a look at the homepage. It has reviews and screenshots. Anyone got a cached copy of the article?
NaN isn't just MatLab-speak - it's part of the IEEE 754 standard for floating point numbers, used for representing non-numeric values.
That is so cool. It makes me wonder though, why Apple doesn't come up with designs like this themselves. yeah sure, they come up with a lot of original stuff and cool designs, but having more to choose from would surely be an advantage. The transparent cover over the hard drive and battery could do with being tinted blue - it's just a wee bit too clear I think. Wish I could afford an iBook to do this to :o)
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...and you too could eb that world class company they aspire to be ;-)
You know that on top of that you could build a 32 bit extension to an 16 bit OS, running on...
Yeah, but unfortunately it's not going to be any use for LAN parties, as the story suggests. That's a shame, because it would definitely stand out at the LAN parties.
So this will be good news for anyone who writes software that gets round e-book encryption. After all, its the user that's instructing the software to do it, just like the user is instructing Kazaa to download the pirated music.
Also, it'll be good news for the writers of Back Orifice, who can now publish their software quite freely, or sell it in PC World, since it's the *user* that's doing something wrong.
I've seen postmaster@ bounce before. I guess the domain probably doesn't exist any more (being hopeful) since I reported them to someone a bit higher up. I know there's *always* an address to complain to, but how many spam server admins read their root e-mail? The address existing isn't quite as good as the e-mail being read.
Hasn't this already been done?
Didn't they just pick some desert in the US for the manned missions to the moon too?
Slashdot is in a fairly unique position as far as this goes. Okay, so there are some other geek news sites, but I along with a lot of other people will always read Slashdot. Yahoo on the other hand is one of the millions of web based e-mail services. I'm sure there will be others prepared to offer free POP3 e-mail, causing people who rely on such free services to switch away from Yahoo. I use my own domain (which I could probably get for the price of a Yahoo POP3 account) and would not switch to Yahoo as a matter of principle.
Most of what I recieve has a Yahoo address in the "from" header, but has been routed through some middle eastern spam relay. You should always check to see what server the e-mail was sent through when complaining to someone about it. I find this is quite reliable in stopping the flow of spam (I've not has spam at my home account this year yet). If the server has no address to complain to, contact their upstream provider.
Without giving out my Hotmail address to anyone, I received spam. Now I've given up on trying to block spam going into the account and just let it happen. I use that address to sign up to services on the web with, as I no longer care about it. My Yahoo account has a lot of spam too, although I got it intending to use it as my "signing up to new online services" address, so I can understand it having spam. I've heard rumours (and going by the privacy agreements it's prefectly possible) that web-based mail companies sell your e-mail address to mailing list companies. Owning a web-based email address is effectively opting in for spam. How can companies do that, and still announce publicly that they are working hard to try and reduce spam?
I can see this getting slashdotted fairly quickly if they had more information on the site, since they seem to want to do everything as images. And the site has one paragraph of text and no links when viewed in Lynx. Not very geek-friendly.
Has anyone successfully got SVG (scalable vector graphics) working in Konqueror? I'm not just talking about static images, but fully ECMA-scriptable ones, like you get in Mozilla or Internet Explorer with Adobe's plug-in. How easy would it be to get the Adobe plug-in to work in Konqueror using something like CrossOver? I'm surprised at the apparent lack fo support for an open graphics standard in the open source world.
Having support for all the major media formats is good though, because I don't intend buying a television when I move out of my parents' house, so I'd be really happy to watch streaming videos in my favourite operating system.
I have about 200 bookmarks. I've got no speed problem with Mozilla. It starts about as quick as IE in WIndows on my box. Maybe if you know of such "clunky" code, you could change something in it, or even just suggest a change to someone else to make? And as far as stability goes, It crashes less than IE6 on Wink2K. I've not had NS4.78 or Mozilla crash in ages, but then I tend to ignore sites that have crap or incompatible designs.
On that mentality, Linux is being as bad as MS in re-ripping off an idea from Sun. If one car manufacturer releases a model with built-in GPS/sat-nav, and others follow, do we say they're ripping off an innovative idea? To compete in an industry you must either provide what your competitors do, or provide something better.
What came first - the chicken or the egg? Well in this case it was the monkey :o)
I think this is great work from the Mono team. They've passed one of the biggest hurdles in implementing a compiler. At university we have been using Java in situations where they *could* have made us use c#. If in the future they do say "we want you to use c#", I can happily stay on my linux box and use it. It's always good news when there's yet another thing that Linux can do just as well as MS.
what about snowmen not wearing pants?
Now, that's what I call fighting to the last breath (and beyond). Three cheers for Be.