Well, I used 6.x up until 7.0b1 came out, and 7.0 is a lot faster on startup in particular. Like 1 second vs 5 - 8 seconds (this on a 866 MHz PIII with 384 MB RAM).
Also 6.05 appeared to have a bug, that caused it's downloads to suck up all it's reasources if the server was fast enough, causing you not to be able to do anything while downloading. This is not the case with 7.0b1/2.
It also has some very neat features with regards to testing websites, such as debug with outline etc. Also it's sidebar can display each and every link on a page.
I like it. I like it a lot. I switched to Mozilla for a while but went back to Opera for several reasons, and 7.0 really solidifies Operas lead in my eyes. It would be nice however, if the stuff like e-mail and ICQ were plug-ins instead of built in. It might not make a difference wrt size or speed, but it'd be nice:-)
and if we're REALLY lucky, we get laid by the hottie secretary with the big tits!
Hrm .... how about these aditional uses:
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Disposing of dead animals. Whole dead animals. Like your pet hamster or your mother-in-law. Hell, maybe not even dead... maybe alive, screaming and kicking... muhahahah!
How would that work? Of course, you'd have to have a big enough chamber, but that could be dealt with. And getting rid of the evidence wouldn't be too dificult either - just move it down to the river and dump the solids in there. Whoosh - perfect crime!
Exactly. This is why you need the prosecutor to define what he means by "hacker".
Just like "are you okay?" only has one correct answer: "compared to what?".
Doing this will result in several things:
You get the prosecutor out of his rythm, as he now has to answer one of your questions
It leaves a nice impression on the jury and judge, as you get a chance to inform them, that the word has several uses, and therefor needs to be clarified
You might even get to do this on several occasions, when he asks, as under different circumstances, describing yourself as a hacker would be faster and easier than describing yourself as being a very competent computer user, programmer and developer. Again, this will get the prosecutor on his heels, as he then needs to either ask you what you mean by hacker this time or simply accept that hacker isn't nescesarily bad.
All in all it's a good thing to clarify what people mean, when what they say is ambiguous - which "are you a hacker" certainly is.
One who is proficient at using or programming a computer; a computer buff.
One who uses programming skills to gain illegal access to a computer network or file.
One who enthusiastically pursues a game or sport: a weekend tennis hacker.
So which one is it? Saying "yes" would be a lie either way.
Hell, he might just have lied, when he said "no"; I would certainly label him as a hacker, using definition 1, and he might also be a golf hacker for all we know.
We should be discussing how to make sites which desire to be accessiblework. Right?
Joe Clark wrote:
Seriously, if you've got an ordinary HTML Web page and you make absolutely all your images accessible - including, crucially, adding alt=""to every spacer GIF and every other meaningless graphic - you're four-fifths of the way to being an accessible Web site for the group with the greatest single need, the blind and visually-impaired.
Maybe we should be discussing reading the articles before commenting them. Just a thought.
I have tried Mandrake; both 8.2 and 9.0 RC3(I think it's RC3). It's nice and it default to 60Hz and it's a pain to figure out how to change it. I seem to remember, that 8.2 enabled me to change the refresh rate, as I used it for quite a while, and I get major head aches when staring at a 60Hz refresh for more than 10 to 15 minutes at a time.
or instance it's the only Linux distribution that lets you use your Floppy, CD-ROM, Zip... like under Windows.That's just not true. Lycoris lets you do the same thing; no mounting, no nothing. Just pop it in, and it'll do it for you. It'll autoplay audio cd's and even try (in my case horribly) to play the dvd's you insert.
This wouldn't be much of a problem if the system comes
preinstalled.
On a system that doesn't include a monitor and will be hooked up to anything from a 13" mono-green monitor to the latest state of the art flat screen, I think it might pose a problem. Okay, so the flat screen is a bit much and will be okay to look at @60Hz, but I think you get my point:-)
Not very. But you can call your friend/whoever and ask them, and you still don't need to muck around as root fiddling around with obscure config files. Sure - config files gives you some VERY powerfull options etc., but if your a good developer and programmer, it wouldn't be too hard to expose quite a lot of the functions in an easy to use front end. No - VI does not count as an easy to use front end, anymore than Janet Reno counts as easy on the eyes when she's in a two piece bathing suit.
Perhaps you should try a modern distro some time?
I've never tried SuSE, as I haven't been able to figure out, where to download an ISO from them.
But - let's see - what have I tried:
RedHat 8.0 - spent 5 days trying that one, couldn't find any way to change the refresh rate; sure, I could change the resolution, and if I chose 1024x768x24 I would get 85 Hz, which my monitor can do easily - any other resolution - *bam*, back to 60 Hz. I seem to remember, that Null was better? A while since I used it, but I liked Null better than 8.0 for some reason...
Mandrake 9.0 (RC3 I think) - spent around 5 hours on that one, as I get major headaches, when I'm stuck staring at something doing 60 Hz, and all resolutions were stuck at that refresh rate. Maybe I just have a crappy monitor, but why should I need to whip out a calculator, a manual and search Google for hours on end just to figure out something as simple as that? Haven't gotten around to trying the final edition, that I have lying around here somewhere.
Lycoris - build 46 I think - not quite sure here... I actually think it managed to give me an 75 Hz refresh rate at 1280x1024; of course, I'd prefer 1280x960, as that is a 4x3 resolution and not a 5x4 resolution like 1280x1024 but that's another discussion altogether.
You're refering to uSE, I was refering to Mandrake (8.2 and 9.0 RC3, although that didn't come over quite well).
Oh - and if it's such a good tool, why doesn't other distros use it?
Well, of course I don't need to know that to troll around. But then again, I've never tried SuSE, as I haven't been able to figure out, where to download an ISO from them, and I don't feel like spending money on something, that I don't know for sure, that I'll keep around.
But - let's see - what have I tried:
RedHat 8.0 - spent 5 days trying that one, couldn't find any way to change the refresh rate; sure, I could change the resolution, and if I chose 1024x768x24 I would get 85 Hz, which my monitor can do easily - any other resolution - *bam*, back to 60 Hz.
Mandrake 9.0 (RC3 I think) - spent around 5 hours on that one, as I get major headaches, when I'm stuck staring at something doing 60 Hz, and all resolutions were stuck at that refresh rate. Maybe I just have a crappy monitor, but why should I need to whip out a calculator, a manual and search Google for hours on end just to figure out something as simple as that? Haven't gotten around to trying the final edition, that I have lying around here somewhere.
Lycoris - build 46 I think - not quite sure here... I actually think it managed to give me an 75 Hz refresh rate at 1280x1024; of course, I'd prefer 1280x960, as that is a 4x3 resolution and not a 5x4 resolution like 1280x1024 but that's another discussion altogether.
So, sure - I'm a troll. But - you're pointing to another distro than I was. You're refering to SuSE, I was refering to Mandrake (8.2 and 9.0 RC3).
Oh - and if it's such a good tool, why doesn't other distros use it?
It's real Free Software, it's secure, it's fast, it's reliable, and there are many many software available for it.
And unless you know exactly what you're doing (which new users don't), you're stuck staring at a monitor refreshing at 60 Hz - welcome to headache heaven!
Sure, I can just blah blah blah - no I can't! I'm not a power user, and I'm not going to modify my X config file! Give me a fucking graphical tool for it! Windows can do it - so why can't I do it in X?
And that would prove what? Remember - this is a civil case; there is no jury, and you're innocent until the judge thinks otherwise.
I've gotten a court order to get the ISP to hand over your address, so getting them to hand over some simple statistics shouldn't be too hard either.
According to the screenshots, you have 600+ music files shared along with 200+ movie files.
According to the statistics from the ISP, your connection has rutinely been used to send an amount of data that corrosponds with one of the shared files size.
Neither may be direct evidence, but they'd be pretty convincing circumstatial evidence to me.
Oh - and in case you're wondering, 1) I'm Danish and 2) I don't like what APG is doing either. But that doesn't mean that they don't have a case.
I didn't need to read the linked article, as I've read around... 6 or 7 other articles about the exact same thing. They all say the same thing like this one in Danish:
"The ftp server is usually used by Microsoft's costumers to fetch drivers and updates and to upload files to the company's PSS Security Response Team."
And comon is nice enough do link to the server in question:
ftp://ftppss.microsoft.com/
Granted, The Register's article does use language like "poorly protected server" and "discovered", but I see no problem in using those words, if whoever placed the files there didn't think about using some kind of authentication and directory access for those documents. Then you would still "discover" the files on a "poorly protected server" since it was used for something it was not supposed to be used for.
So in short - something is amiss, but using "juxtapositioning" in your language, doesn't mean your covering up an illigal act.
[...]but I don't like reporters hacking into servers for personal gain either.
Why do you think they did that?
They found the documents on a publicly announced ftp server. An ftp server that Microsoft links to, that their customers can download all kinds of stuff from. If you say I can take anything from your garage, and you place a stack of 100$ bills in there by accident - does that mean I can't take them? You just told me I could!
That's why I made the example of them handing out free newspapers and then accidently printing a confidential memo in the paper. That's not my fucking fault, and it has absolutely nothing to do with lousy protection. It does, however, have everything to do with the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing.
You can't give me a picture and then tell me I can't look at it when you find out that it's a pornographic picture of you and someone you wish you'd never had sex with. It doesn't work like that. You gave it to me - now it's mine. You still have copyright on it, but you can't claim that I was stealing something that you gave me.
Now... was that clear enough as to the difference between stealing and being given something?
That's just two people enjoying intimate moments between themselves in the privacy of their homes/cars/boats, where someone broke into their home and stole the video.
This is a company who does the equivalent of handing out free newspapers for everyone to read and accidently places confidential memos in them.
Microsoft might lose money off of their mistake, so we have to protect them from their own idiocy. As for Pam and Tommy - well, they oughtn't videotape their intimate moments and keep the tapes locked away in their house. That's just plain stupid.
Doesn't an armadillo burrow into the ground? If so, why are they surprised that their rocket attempted the same thing? It probably developed an AI and decieded "fuck space - I'm gonna dig myself a nice little hole in the ground!"
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Well, I used 6.x up until 7.0b1 came out, and 7.0 is a lot faster on startup in particular. Like 1 second vs 5 - 8 seconds (this on a 866 MHz PIII with 384 MB RAM).
:-)
Also 6.05 appeared to have a bug, that caused it's downloads to suck up all it's reasources if the server was fast enough, causing you not to be able to do anything while downloading. This is not the case with 7.0b1/2.
It also has some very neat features with regards to testing websites, such as debug with outline etc. Also it's sidebar can display each and every link on a page.
I like it. I like it a lot. I switched to Mozilla for a while but went back to Opera for several reasons, and 7.0 really solidifies Operas lead in my eyes. It would be nice however, if the stuff like e-mail and ICQ were plug-ins instead of built in. It might not make a difference wrt size or speed, but it'd be nice
and if we're REALLY lucky, we get laid by the hottie secretary with the big tits!
Disposing of dead animals. Whole dead animals. Like your pet hamster or your mother-in-law. Hell, maybe not even dead ... maybe alive, screaming and kicking ... muhahahah!
How would that work? Of course, you'd have to have a big enough chamber, but that could be dealt with. And getting rid of the evidence wouldn't be too dificult either - just move it down to the river and dump the solids in there. Whoosh - perfect crime!
Right?
I seem to remember the phrase "6 times 9" from the scrabble scene in the radio play as well.
Just like "are you okay?" only has one correct answer: "compared to what?".
Doing this will result in several things:
- You get the prosecutor out of his rythm, as he now has to answer one of your questions
- It leaves a nice impression on the jury and judge, as you get a chance to inform them, that the word has several uses, and therefor needs to be clarified
- You might even get to do this on several occasions, when he asks, as under different circumstances, describing yourself as a hacker would be faster and easier than describing yourself as being a very competent computer user, programmer and developer. Again, this will get the prosecutor on his heels, as he then needs to either ask you what you mean by hacker this time or simply accept that hacker isn't nescesarily bad.
All in all it's a good thing to clarify what people mean, when what they say is ambiguous - which "are you a hacker" certainly is.Hell, he might just have lied, when he said "no"; I would certainly label him as a hacker, using definition 1, and he might also be a golf hacker for all we know.
Joe Clark wrote:
Maybe we should be discussing reading the articles before commenting them. Just a thought.
or instance it's the only Linux distribution that lets you use your Floppy, CD-ROM, Zip... like under Windows.That's just not true. Lycoris lets you do the same thing; no mounting, no nothing. Just pop it in, and it'll do it for you. It'll autoplay audio cd's and even try (in my case horribly) to play the dvd's you insert.
I've never tried SuSE, as I haven't been able to figure out, where to download an ISO from them.
But - let's see - what have I tried:
RedHat 8.0 - spent 5 days trying that one, couldn't find any way to change the refresh rate; sure, I could change the resolution, and if I chose 1024x768x24 I would get 85 Hz, which my monitor can do easily - any other resolution - *bam*, back to 60 Hz. I seem to remember, that Null was better? A while since I used it, but I liked Null better than 8.0 for some reason
Mandrake 9.0 (RC3 I think) - spent around 5 hours on that one, as I get major headaches, when I'm stuck staring at something doing 60 Hz, and all resolutions were stuck at that refresh rate. Maybe I just have a crappy monitor, but why should I need to whip out a calculator, a manual and search Google for hours on end just to figure out something as simple as that? Haven't gotten around to trying the final edition, that I have lying around here somewhere.
Lycoris - build 46 I think - not quite sure here
You're refering to uSE, I was refering to Mandrake (8.2 and 9.0 RC3, although that didn't come over quite well).
Oh - and if it's such a good tool, why doesn't other distros use it?
Well, of course I don't need to know that to troll around. But then again, I've never tried SuSE, as I haven't been able to figure out, where to download an ISO from them, and I don't feel like spending money on something, that I don't know for sure, that I'll keep around.
... I actually think it managed to give me an 75 Hz refresh rate at 1280x1024; of course, I'd prefer 1280x960, as that is a 4x3 resolution and not a 5x4 resolution like 1280x1024 but that's another discussion altogether.
But - let's see - what have I tried:
RedHat 8.0 - spent 5 days trying that one, couldn't find any way to change the refresh rate; sure, I could change the resolution, and if I chose 1024x768x24 I would get 85 Hz, which my monitor can do easily - any other resolution - *bam*, back to 60 Hz.
Mandrake 9.0 (RC3 I think) - spent around 5 hours on that one, as I get major headaches, when I'm stuck staring at something doing 60 Hz, and all resolutions were stuck at that refresh rate. Maybe I just have a crappy monitor, but why should I need to whip out a calculator, a manual and search Google for hours on end just to figure out something as simple as that? Haven't gotten around to trying the final edition, that I have lying around here somewhere.
Lycoris - build 46 I think - not quite sure here
So, sure - I'm a troll. But - you're pointing to another distro than I was. You're refering to SuSE, I was refering to Mandrake (8.2 and 9.0 RC3).
Oh - and if it's such a good tool, why doesn't other distros use it?
Sure, I can just blah blah blah - no I can't! I'm not a power user, and I'm not going to modify my X config file! Give me a fucking graphical tool for it! Windows can do it - so why can't I do it in X?
And that would prove what? Remember - this is a civil case; there is no jury, and you're innocent until the judge thinks otherwise.
I've gotten a court order to get the ISP to hand over your address, so getting them to hand over some simple statistics shouldn't be too hard either.
According to the screenshots, you have 600+ music files shared along with 200+ movie files.
According to the statistics from the ISP, your connection has rutinely been used to send an amount of data that corrosponds with one of the shared files size.
Neither may be direct evidence, but they'd be pretty convincing circumstatial evidence to me.
Oh - and in case you're wondering, 1) I'm Danish and 2) I don't like what APG is doing either. But that doesn't mean that they don't have a case.
This is, with a 99.999995% certainty, the wrong forum to ask this, but still.
... of course, It's my abstract, so I'm probably biased.
Have you considdered implementing something like this abstract?
Like I said, wrong forum to ask, but I think it might be interesting for the Fresco project
I didn't need to read the linked article, as I've read around ... 6 or 7 other articles about the exact same thing. They all say the same thing like this one in Danish:
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http://www.comon.dk/index.php?page=news:show,id
"The ftp server is usually used by Microsoft's costumers to fetch drivers and updates and to upload files to the company's PSS Security Response Team."
And comon is nice enough do link to the server in question:
ftp://ftppss.microsoft.com/
Granted, The Register's article does use language like "poorly protected server" and "discovered", but I see no problem in using those words, if whoever placed the files there didn't think about using some kind of authentication and directory access for those documents. Then you would still "discover" the files on a "poorly protected server" since it was used for something it was not supposed to be used for.
So in short - something is amiss, but using "juxtapositioning" in your language, doesn't mean your covering up an illigal act.
They found the documents on a publicly announced ftp server. An ftp server that Microsoft links to, that their customers can download all kinds of stuff from. If you say I can take anything from your garage, and you place a stack of 100$ bills in there by accident - does that mean I can't take them? You just told me I could!
That's why I made the example of them handing out free newspapers and then accidently printing a confidential memo in the paper. That's not my fucking fault, and it has absolutely nothing to do with lousy protection. It does, however, have everything to do with the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing.
You can't give me a picture and then tell me I can't look at it when you find out that it's a pornographic picture of you and someone you wish you'd never had sex with. It doesn't work like that. You gave it to me - now it's mine. You still have copyright on it, but you can't claim that I was stealing something that you gave me.
Now
A Jay and Silent Bob movie?!? Who would pay to see that?
[All three look at the camera]
God I love that movie!
That's just two people enjoying intimate moments between themselves in the privacy of their homes/cars/boats, where someone broke into their home and stole the video.
This is a company who does the equivalent of handing out free newspapers for everyone to read and accidently places confidential memos in them.
Microsoft might lose money off of their mistake, so we have to protect them from their own idiocy. As for Pam and Tommy - well, they oughtn't videotape their intimate moments and keep the tapes locked away in their house. That's just plain stupid.
I didn't notice you in the trailer ... did they edit you out of the movie or something ;-p
Seriously - what was your characters role in the plot, since they decided they cut remove him?
Doesn't an armadillo burrow into the ground? If so, why are they surprised that their rocket attempted the same thing? It probably developed an AI and decieded "fuck space - I'm gonna dig myself a nice little hole in the ground!"