I don't use it for two things, though - DiaryLand diaries (which a few of my friends have) and Slashdot.
Diaryland doesn't support RSS at all, which is kinda lame.
Slashdot's RSS was useless for a long time, it lacked any description in article entries. I see it's finally fixed - I'd not noticed before, so I will be giving it a test-go again soon.
It still lets me "miss" news, since there is such a high turnover yet still only 10 RSS entries. It also can't show me comments (which I read on quite a lot of articles).
I wonder what the legal ramification of just using Google is?
Create a "torrent search engine".
You pass it a search term (eg "debian").
It searches Google for that term, limiting the file type to ".torrent" (I think that's an advanced search option, right?).
It then checks each result in turn for 404s until it has either exhausted the search or has a "full" set of results (say 10, so you don't chew bandwidth unnecessarily).
Add in some quick caching, sounds like a winner to me:)
stability wise, it's no better, and note no worse, in my books than an MS product.
That may be your experience, but it's not not everyone's.
I've found the stability of the latest OOo impossible to question, though I haven't had too much trouble with MSO crashing lately.
MSO is a pain to install. OK so the first part of the installation is OK, but adding service release upgrades and service packs has always brought me pain. I've also had it occasionally decide that despite taking up 200MB+, a component (like Publisher) isn't installed.
OOo, the last time it did crash for me, had a perfectly auto-saved copy of my work, right up until the moment it crashed. (Abiword does something similar, I believe). Word's "Recovered Document" has never properly worked for me...
But the obivious question; what are the advantages of running Linux on Mac hardware? It's nice hardware, and I got my iBook for a better price than I could find an equivalent x86 laptop for.
I got firewire, long battery life, 12" screen (I wanted something small I could lug around easily), as much RAM and HDD, all for less than the closest x86 laptop. It's also hellishly attractive.:-)
Oh, and the suspend/resume stuff is far faster than on all of the Linux/x86 laptops I've seen.
As far as I've read, Linux can be run on iBooks but the hardware support is seriously lacking, which disables some important functions like power saving..
Only the latest iBooks have "seriously lacking" hardware support, and even that is close to being fixed. (IIRC the latest benh kernels can enable power-saving).
My iBook was bought at the start of last year.
After 12 months on OSX I decided to switch back to Debian, mostly just because I prefer GNOME, and it was what I used everywhere else. It also gave a much-desired speed boost:)
The only thing that doesn't work is the modem, and that's just because it's a software modem and I don't want to use the (buggy, non-open-source) driver.
Overall, it was worth it, the biggest thing I lost was the ability to use WINE to play Windows games!
What's scary is that I used to do exactly that only a year or two ago... I'd make a user account on my PC, email my friend the details, then talk to each other through "talk".
I've had systems in place on many of my accounts for YEARS that bounce (reject with "unknown user" errors) spam and the same spammers keep sending the same shit over and over again. I've waatched the mail logs on my domain's servers where 99% of the incoming email is undeliverable spam (it ALL bounces) and the same spammers keep sending the same shit over and over again. Spammers simply either DO NOT CARE if they get a bounce, or do not see the bounces anyway.
I use this to my advantage. I've set up an account (spamtrap@ or something I think) and forward all known spam hotbeds on our system (most of which are user accounts that haven't existed in 5+ years) directly to it.
SpamAssassin's bayesian trainer is run hourly on the inbox folder. (It's run in "ham" mode on a few of the larger legit IMAP inboxes, to counter any bad spam catching).
No false positives, and very few untrapped spams:)
Re:Been There, Done That (Score:3, Informative) by duffbeer703 (177751) * Alter Relationship on Tuesday December 07, @08:58 (#11011547) (http://www.dufftech.net/)
With the possible exception of the O.J. trial, this must be the most embarrassing court case the U.S. has had to suffer through in front of an international audience.
I'm still cringing from seeing how the USA dealt with MSFT, myself...
OK well actually for the case of music, you were right. My iPod full of 1st-gen copies of CDs is filled illegally.
The ARIA (the.au equivalent of the RIAA) have stated that they have no intention of going after "personal use", and have pointed out that nobody has ever been prosecuted for it.
Slashdot Mirror
Yup. I believe that in tense situations groups are only as smart as the dumbest person there, and that all people are fundamentally like sheep.
OMG!
Me too!!
({) :-)
(K)
You should really look into an RSS reader.
I use RSS for almost all of my newsreading.
I don't use it for two things, though - DiaryLand diaries (which a few of my friends have) and Slashdot.
Diaryland doesn't support RSS at all, which is kinda lame.
Slashdot's RSS was useless for a long time, it lacked any description in article entries. I see it's finally fixed - I'd not noticed before, so I will be giving it a test-go again soon.
It still lets me "miss" news, since there is such a high turnover yet still only 10 RSS entries. It also can't show me comments (which I read on quite a lot of articles).
FWIW I use Thunderbird.
The scary thing is that you're rated "Insightful"...
I wonder what the legal ramification of just using Google is?
:)
Create a "torrent search engine".
You pass it a search term (eg "debian").
It searches Google for that term, limiting the file type to ".torrent" (I think that's an advanced search option, right?).
It then checks each result in turn for 404s until it has either exhausted the search or has a "full" set of results (say 10, so you don't chew bandwidth unnecessarily).
Add in some quick caching, sounds like a winner to me
and it's also not got a complete English filter, either. "Sex" may be there, but there are still words that can slip through...
:-/
For instance, see what options you get when searching for "jerk"...
Apple also pour effort into KHTML, for another example.
Yeah, wearing a President's mask into a federal building seems like a good idea.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, Michael Moore could wander in with dynamite strapped to his chest and blow you up, I guess...
I can write it just fine...
./test.sh /bin/ls
/dev/null 2>&1
:-)
Save it as "test.sh", then run (eg):
====
#!/bin/bash
$1 >
echo Program can complete
====
See! Easy
Ooh, I bet that's gonna sting... ;)
stability wise, it's no better, and note no worse, in my books than an MS product.
That may be your experience, but it's not not everyone's.
I've found the stability of the latest OOo impossible to question, though I haven't had too much trouble with MSO crashing lately.
MSO is a pain to install. OK so the first part of the installation is OK, but adding service release upgrades and service packs has always brought me pain. I've also had it occasionally decide that despite taking up 200MB+, a component (like Publisher) isn't installed.
OOo, the last time it did crash for me, had a perfectly auto-saved copy of my work, right up until the moment it crashed. (Abiword does something similar, I believe). Word's "Recovered Document" has never properly worked for me...
But the obivious question; what are the advantages of running Linux on Mac hardware?
:-)
:)
It's nice hardware, and I got my iBook for a better price than I could find an equivalent x86 laptop for.
I got firewire, long battery life, 12" screen (I wanted something small I could lug around easily), as much RAM and HDD, all for less than the closest x86 laptop. It's also hellishly attractive.
Oh, and the suspend/resume stuff is far faster than on all of the Linux/x86 laptops I've seen.
As far as I've read, Linux can be run on iBooks but the hardware support is seriously lacking, which disables some important functions like power saving..
Only the latest iBooks have "seriously lacking" hardware support, and even that is close to being fixed. (IIRC the latest benh kernels can enable power-saving).
My iBook was bought at the start of last year.
After 12 months on OSX I decided to switch back to Debian, mostly just because I prefer GNOME, and it was what I used everywhere else. It also gave a much-desired speed boost
The only thing that doesn't work is the modem, and that's just because it's a software modem and I don't want to use the (buggy, non-open-source) driver.
Overall, it was worth it, the biggest thing I lost was the ability to use WINE to play Windows games!
What's scary is that I used to do exactly that only a year or two ago... I'd make a user account on my PC, email my friend the details, then talk to each other through "talk".
:)
Crazy stuff
V guvax fgebat rapelcgvba (yvxr guvf) zvtug!
Qhqr, jung rapelcgvba ner *lbh* hfvat??
:-)
V pna'g haqrefgnaq nalguvat... lbh'er abg sbervta ner lbh?
The worst thing is that it affects work that's about to fall out of copyright.
I want to move to Norway or something...
I've had systems in place on many of my accounts for YEARS that bounce (reject with "unknown user" errors) spam and the same spammers keep sending the same shit over and over again. I've waatched the mail logs on my domain's servers where 99% of the incoming email is undeliverable spam (it ALL bounces) and the same spammers keep sending the same shit over and over again. Spammers simply either DO NOT CARE if they get a bounce, or do not see the bounces anyway.
:)
I use this to my advantage. I've set up an account (spamtrap@ or something I think) and forward all known spam hotbeds on our system (most of which are user accounts that haven't existed in 5+ years) directly to it.
SpamAssassin's bayesian trainer is run hourly on the inbox folder. (It's run in "ham" mode on a few of the larger legit IMAP inboxes, to counter any bad spam catching).
No false positives, and very few untrapped spams
Or use _blank, which always opens in a new window.
Of course, they might want to know the name of their window, which would be kinda harder.
Re:Been There, Done That (Score:3, Informative)
:-)
by duffbeer703 (177751) * Alter Relationship on Tuesday December 07, @08:58 (#11011547)
(http://www.dufftech.net/)
Informative? You've gotta be kidding!
Don't they mean "questioning 2,700 Jeopardy! answers" ???
No no no, you have it all wrong.
Me: This Slashdot post calls into doubt the possibly incorrectly phrased "answering 2,700 Jeopardy! questions".
You: What is "Don't they mean "questioning 2,700 Jeopardy! answers" ???".
I'll take Karma Bonus for four hundred, thanks!
It was amusing, however, when he went away for two weeks (Singapore was it?) in late 2002 IIRC.
:-)
/.!
Slashdot was unblocked the day after he left!
In 2003 I believe the charging system was changed and you were quota'd. Then they let you use
CGTalk was also banned, which was a PITA.
With the possible exception of the O.J. trial, this must be the most embarrassing court case the U.S. has had to suffer through in front of an international audience.
I'm still cringing from seeing how the USA dealt with MSFT, myself...
It *is* illegal here to tape a show off the TV.
/ ca1968133/s111.html - this is the section on non-infringing actions for broadcasts.
/ ca1968133/s47c.html
:-)
Untrue.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act
It *is* illegal here to copy your own CD for "backup."
Only for music. Software is OK.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act
Under "Acts not constituting infringements of copyright in computer programs", the subsection "Back-up copy of computer programs".
Most laws are available online - go read them!
Can I time-shift backwards?
:-)
eg. SG:Atlantis will probably air here in two years (.au), so can I torrent it, watch it now, and consider that time-shifting?
OK well actually for the case of music, you were right. My iPod full of 1st-gen copies of CDs is filled illegally.
.au equivalent of the RIAA) have stated that they have no intention of going after "personal use", and have pointed out that nobody has ever been prosecuted for it.
:)
The ARIA (the
For now