Has anyone actually got the Win32 version to work? I've finally got it to the point where fetchnews will download the news items, but whenever I try to select the plugin in Winamp, it crashes. I downloaded Winamp3 and can listen to each individual item by dragging it into the player, but V3 doesn't appear to support plugins the same so I don't know how to use the plugin there.
Also, the documentation for the win32 install is horrid. I'd be happy to help with that if I could ever get this thing to work!
through a Canadian hosting company. I get unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage space, but not my own server. Includes PHP a MySQL database perl etc. Unfortunatley I can't say who they are. It's cheap because they're still a small company, and I don't want slashdot to squish them and ruin my good thing!
Sure, and RC5-64 was supposed to take something like a hundred years when we started that, and it managed to be completed in about 5. But I'm sure that PC's won't get any faster in the next few years, right?
Write a login script to map a drive back to the server, and copy *.doc, *.xls etc. off the C: drive to the server's drive (or alternatley, copy the whole my documents folder, IF they actually use that folder). Use Xcopy/A so only changed files get copied up. Sure it'll take a while the first time they log on, but if you roll out the script by small groups of people every day, you shouldn't take too much of a network hit.
Don't you watch movies? re the murder suicide: Tanya invites Matthew over. Of course The Bad Guys(TM) have their lines tapped. The asassin enters the house, shoots Tanya 7 times, waits for Matthew to come over, shoots him, and puts the gun in his hand. 1 murder/suicide made to order. Except when it's done in the movies, the bad guy usually fails.
P.S. I've got to agree with your pagan/satanist. It's total ingnorance that someone would think they're interchangable.
It seems that major search engines are the biggest "violators" of deep linking. Majority of the time when I do a search, I am not given the home page of the site that has the information I want, I am given a "deep link" to the exact page I need. Maybe the Dallas News is playing favorites over who can link to their "deep pages".
Amazingly, if you'd read the article, you'd notice that they say exactly that. They are choosing who to proesecute and who not to, and are purposley ignoring some of the larger sites.
Here's the quote from the article: Baradell explained that "how we proceed is very much case by case," and he declined to discuss how Belo decides which deep links to go after and which to let alone.
But if you buy 60 motherboards and 60 cpu's and 60 512MB DIMM's etc... from your local hardware store, I'm guessing they're going to be pretty accomidating about replacing dead parts for you pretty quick.As long as you're not out in the middle of nowhere, you should be able to pick up repacment parts or have them shipped same day.
Ok, I can never get this right. So, Microsoft's good tuesdays and thursdays, and bad monday, wed. friday then? It's not even a flipping wireless monitor! Geez...
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This is what I've always said- travelling into the future is easy, it's travelling into the past that's hard. All you have to do to travel into the future is move fast. Astronauts and satellites do it all the time. It's going the other way that's tough (and I don't think we will ever figure out how to do that).
If you haven't checked out his other collumns, you should. He seems to be a smart guy. In this one: http://www.yil.com/columns/column.asp?columnist=eb ert&date=011001&page=01 he explains why forwarding virus warnings, urban myths etc is a bad idea, and even explains why sending HTML formatted email is bad. And this one... http://www.yil.com/columns/column.asp?colu mnist=eb ert&date=010801&page=01 he speaks out on the demise of Yahoo's Adult clubs. And... http://www.yil.com/columns/column.asp?columni st=eb ert&date=010101&page=01 privacy issues at Amazon.com It almost sounds like he's just a regular geek who likes to watch movies.
This is news? a web site with one MP3 on it? It's not even a alternate audio track about the movie, it's more like a directors commentary. I guess I can kiss my Karma goodbye, but has anyone else noticed Slashdot is _really_ stretching for stories lately?
I totally disagree with you (except for the laptop thing, that would be irritating). I often go to movies while on call, and have to have my cell phone and pager with me. That being said, before the movie I set everything to vibrate (mmmm vibrate...), and if anything goes off during the movie, I just get up and leave. It's about being respectfull to the other movie-gorers. Don't answer the phone or pager until OUT of the theater. Of course, if you can't switch to vibrate, then switch it off. Nothing is worse than a ringing phone in the middle of the movie.
The idea of it being used as a content filter is interesting. Presumably, you would only be able to get to pages that were part of the 'community' of that information. Of course, there will be problems with this too, but it may end up being better than just content filtering by text strings.
Geez, if I had my HD open, at least put in neon lights too, those really thin kind? Now that, would be cool.
And to all the people worried about destrying the HD, don't you have a bunch of old HD's laying around? I have 2 gigs, 1 gigs and a 540. Why not mod one of those, the worse thing that could happen is it ends up in the garbage instead of in a pile of junk on your computer desk.
I live in Alberta, Canada, and there have been some pretty high profile court cases in the last year, where farmers were sued because they bought patented grain, grew it & then used the seeds from that grain to grow more grain. The seed companied (like monsanto) place some pretty heavy restrictions on what you can do with their seeds, and the have held up fairly well in court. So, open source tomatoes, maybe, but definetly not open source grain...
So? I never said it was good, I just said it existed. Vaporware is generally something that doesn't exist but is hyped up to be the next thing since sliced bread.
Absolutley true. And, there's actually very little pay in doing the IT for the olympics, their web site included. Most of it's done completley at the expense of the company doing it.
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Why don't we just shut down the root servers then? Surely there's no point in keeping them running for a measly .1% of requests.
Bwahahaha. That's a good one!
Has anyone actually got the Win32 version to work? I've finally got it to the point where fetchnews will download the news items, but whenever I try to select the plugin in Winamp, it crashes. I downloaded Winamp3 and can listen to each individual item by dragging it into the player, but V3 doesn't appear to support plugins the same so I don't know how to use the plugin there.
Also, the documentation for the win32 install is horrid. I'd be happy to help with that if I could ever get this thing to work!
through a Canadian hosting company. I get unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage space, but not my own server. Includes PHP a MySQL database perl etc. Unfortunatley I can't say who they are. It's cheap because they're still a small company, and I don't want slashdot to squish them and ruin my good thing!
can't see the forest for the Trees?
Ugh, I just had a flashback to my Windows 2000 Active directory training. Excuse me, I need to go shower now.
I know. I like to keep at least as current as /. itself.
So, instead of paying the Microsoft tax, you're paying the SuSe tax?
Sure, and RC5-64 was supposed to take something like a hundred years when we started that, and it managed to be completed in about 5. But I'm sure that PC's won't get any faster in the next few years, right?
Write a login script to map a drive back to the server, and copy *.doc, *.xls etc. off the C: drive to the server's drive (or alternatley, copy the whole my documents folder, IF they actually use that folder). Use Xcopy /A so only changed files get copied up. Sure it'll take a while the first time they log on, but if you roll out the script by small groups of people every day, you shouldn't take too much of a network hit.
I would mod you up if I hadn't had my moderation privliges permanently revoked for moderating another comment the 'slashdot gods' didn't agree with.
Don't you watch movies? re the murder suicide: Tanya invites Matthew over. Of course The Bad Guys(TM) have their lines tapped. The asassin enters the house, shoots Tanya 7 times, waits for Matthew to come over, shoots him, and puts the gun in his hand. 1 murder/suicide made to order. Except when it's done in the movies, the bad guy usually fails.
P.S. I've got to agree with your pagan/satanist. It's total ingnorance that someone would think they're interchangable.
Amazingly, if you'd read the article, you'd notice that they say exactly that. They are choosing who to proesecute and who not to, and are purposley ignoring some of the larger sites. Here's the quote from the article: Baradell explained that "how we proceed is very much case by case," and he declined to discuss how Belo decides which deep links to go after and which to let alone.
But if you buy 60 motherboards and 60 cpu's and 60 512MB DIMM's etc... from your local hardware store, I'm guessing they're going to be pretty accomidating about replacing dead parts for you pretty quick.As long as you're not out in the middle of nowhere, you should be able to pick up repacment parts or have them shipped same day.
Ok, I can never get this right. So, Microsoft's good tuesdays and thursdays, and bad monday, wed. friday then? It's not even a flipping wireless monitor!
Geez...
This is what I've always said- travelling into the future is easy, it's travelling into the past that's hard. All you have to do to travel into the future is move fast. Astronauts and satellites do it all the time. It's going the other way that's tough (and I don't think we will ever figure out how to do that).
Crap, none of those links worked. Anyway, just click on his other articles listed along the right hand side.
If you haven't checked out his other collumns, you should. He seems to be a smart guy.b ert&date=011001&page=01 u mnist=eb ert&date=010801&page=01 ...i st=eb ert&date=010101&page=01
In this one: http://www.yil.com/columns/column.asp?columnist=e
he explains why forwarding virus warnings, urban myths etc is a bad idea, and even explains why sending HTML formatted email is bad.
And this one...
http://www.yil.com/columns/column.asp?col
he speaks out on the demise of Yahoo's Adult clubs.
And
http://www.yil.com/columns/column.asp?column
privacy issues at Amazon.com
It almost sounds like he's just a regular geek who likes to watch movies.
This is news? a web site with one MP3 on it? It's not even a alternate audio track about the movie, it's more like a directors commentary. I guess I can kiss my Karma goodbye, but has anyone else noticed Slashdot is _really_ stretching for stories lately?
I totally disagree with you (except for the laptop thing, that would be irritating). I often go to movies while on call, and have to have my cell phone and pager with me.
That being said, before the movie I set everything to vibrate (mmmm vibrate...), and if anything goes off during the movie, I just get up and leave. It's about being respectfull to the other movie-gorers. Don't answer the phone or pager until OUT of the theater. Of course, if you can't switch to vibrate, then switch it off. Nothing is worse than a ringing phone in the middle of the movie.
The idea of it being used as a content filter is interesting. Presumably, you would only be able to get to pages that were part of the 'community' of that information. Of course, there will be problems with this too, but it may end up being better than just content filtering by text strings.
Geez, if I had my HD open, at least put in neon lights too, those really thin kind? Now that, would be cool.
And to all the people worried about destrying the HD, don't you have a bunch of old HD's laying around? I have 2 gigs, 1 gigs and a 540. Why not mod one of those, the worse thing that could happen is it ends up in the garbage instead of in a pile of junk on your computer desk.
I live in Alberta, Canada, and there have been some pretty high profile court cases in the last year, where farmers were sued because they bought patented grain, grew it & then used the seeds from that grain to grow more grain. The seed companied (like monsanto) place some pretty heavy restrictions on what you can do with their seeds, and the have held up fairly well in court. So, open source tomatoes, maybe, but definetly not open source grain...
So? I never said it was good, I just said it existed. Vaporware is generally something that doesn't exist but is hyped up to be the next thing since sliced bread.
I imagine there are a good number of slashdot readers sitting there with their mouths wide open, amazed that this really isn't vaporware. Me included.
Absolutley true. And, there's actually very little pay in doing the IT for the olympics, their web site included. Most of it's done completley at the expense of the company doing it.