I'm finding IE to be slow and buggy, and it's literally the last browser I start when nothing else will do (hotmail, anyone?)
What version are you using?
I've been accessing Hotmail from Mozilla 1.3.1 and Mozilla 1.4 with no issues whatsoever, including sending attachments, receiving attachments, etc etc.
And before you get all wierd on me, I use Hotmail as the email address for spam-likely webforms (including the ones that swear they will never spam you). It's interesting to see how often they spam you anyways...
I know Till (the lawyer here) in person. He's a good guy, and he certainly knows what he's doing.
On the other hand, SCO has hired David Boies, the guy we loved for sticking it to Microsoft (well, OK, trying to stick it to them).
I guess Mr. Boies really is a lawyer after all.
Hey, it can't hurt to try. (FWIW, you can test-drive Anonymizer free on their webpage, albeit without the full SSL bells-and-whistles)
Never discount the possibility that whoever set up the filtering is clueless or incompetent. For that matter, the person who set up the filtering system may well have had to do so for legal reasons. Or they may be opposed to such filtering in principle, but not enough to put their job on the line. In which case they may well have conciously not blocked Anonymizer-type sites.
The reason why the supermarket puts locks on their sliding glass doors is not because it's impossible for someone to get in by smashing the glass, but rather because the insurance company needs to be shown that "reasonable effort" was made in deterring crime.
So what if your school, ISP, country (or whoever) "bans" a website? That's no big deal!
I'm using anonymizer.com and it seems to work just fine. Apparently there are others, (some free?), but this one I've had experience with and can vouch for (and no, I'm not on their payroll, nor am I getting a kickback for this post).
FWIW, for you people with minds in the gutter, my employer's new firewall is configured in a screwy way that was preventing me from posting to Slashdot (apparently this was not intentional; I have a (low-priority) help ticket open to get it fixed). You can see details in my log; apparently there's a Slashdot FAQ about this.
Anyways, the point is, by connecting to Slashdot thru Anonymizer's proxy, I get around my employer's firewall issue. The same logic holds for people behind N2H2's Bess or other similar "blockers".
In theory, one can fuse non-radioactive Helium-3 and get basically non-radioactive end-products, plus truckloads of energy. The problems are:
Fusion technology isn't ready (yet)
There's not much Helium-3 on Earth
There have been "blue-sky" plans (pardon the expression) for years and years about mining the moon for its Helium-3, once fusion technology is ready for it (ie, limited only by lack of fuel).
Then again, "the only difference between theory and pactice is that, in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice"!
> Is the EU is telling its citizens who they can hate?
The 9th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is brilliant on this topic:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Jefferson refused to put his name to the Constitution until it had his 10 Amendments. One of them, the 9th, was to prevent the Government from explicitly listing the things you're allowed to do -- then using that as a way to restrict what you *can* do.
The language in the EU's law:
"based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin, as well as religion"
The people who wrote up the current legislation in Europe (and many US politicians, for that matter) fail to understand the lesson here: It's useless trying make laws via ad-hoc enumeration.
Even if he leaves,.... so what? As long as he chooses to work on Linux, his work is GPL'ed. And as such, AOL will pick up the fruit of that labor. No, they can't charge for it -- but, they're not charging for the millions of "FREE AOL" CD's they ship now, either (and let's all hope and pray that the FREE AOL CD's of 2003 will contain Linux!)
Unless Alan does a complete Atlas Shrug and give up on Linux totally, the chances are that the "big bad capitalist AOL" will ship his kernel to millions of homes worldwide. Hmmm...
Thank you, Richard, for the GPL. It allows AOL to shackle guys like Alan so efficiently.
The AOL protocal was a nice reverse engineering hack. Nice work fellows.
Hear, hear! Look:
There is nothing wrong with a cool hack, made by hackers, that is solely of interest to other hackers, and that maybe even impresses your hacker friends.
This is all Just For Fun, people... never lose sight of that!
All they have to do is say "From now on, we're monitoring KaZaA/Morpheus/Gnutella/etc, and every fortnight where there's an average of less than XYZ files shared from us, we release new material for you to legally download free of charge".
This is a damn good idea. The above comment should have been modded way up.
There's something wrong with Slashdot when Raster himself posts and gets modded up only to a "4". C'mon people -- this guy has done more than 99.999% of you to make the X environment ROCK!!
But then again, I'm Rabid E fan who doesn't give a s^&*! what your grandmother can or can't figure out;->
... was on a TRS-80 "Pocket Computer" of my Dad's. They came out at the same time as the Model 100 laptop, and were about 8 x 3.5 inches rectangle, 0.5 in. thick, and had one line of LCD display.
My Dad still, to this day, uses that TRS-80 Pocket Computer. It sits on his desk next to an IBM RS/6000 CAD workstation. Hey says it's very handy for entering & solving calculations, and the steel casing is very durable -- he takes it onsite to industrial plants all the time.
Radio Shack used to be such a cool hobbyist computer store... they even came out with a tiny, very quiet, thermal printer and a cassette tape drive for the Pocket Computer.
I believe that Dad's TRS-80 still has my first-ever program in its tiny little memory: a loop that beeps and prints "I love you, Dad!" (cut me some slack, I was in 5th grade at the time:-)
Like many of you, there's a certain personal line that these cameras leap right over -- "It Just Ain't Right!"
I live in the Bay Area. There are cameras on top of every intersection's stoplights, to make sure nobody runs a red light (funny, I personally have never noticed rampant red-light-running, even before the cameras).
The traffic/stoplight cameras are over the line too, but they're very hard to protest nonviolently (they're 25 feet in the air and I'm in my car -- what to do?)
HOWEVER, these CCTV cameras sound much more amenable to resistance. TastyWheat has some interesting ideas (I especially like the "face glitter" idea, though I'm not sure I'd actually wear that around all day). What if a significant proportion of people, say 10%, were to always wear big floppy hats and sunglasses when outside? What if that were a Statement -- you will know my identity when I choose, and on my terms?
In the words of Benjamin Franklin, "When society trades its rights and freedoms for security it deserves neither the freedom or the security."
Hopefully this wouldn't effect the lean mean searching that I've come to love
I'm pretty sure Google has already been effected.
Personally, I hope they're not affected.
Wait a minute... could it be that the Slashdot ubergeeks are unable to translate their mastery of the Pathetically Eclectic Rubbish Lister into the eclectic, quirky English language?
Re:Jeeeze, the moderation nowadays....
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Somebody moderate this guy up. The original poster that he is debunking is pure flamebait.
I'm a manager at a closed-source development shop. A few months ago (you know, then the economy was good and companies were hiring), I came close to hiring a fairly prolific open-source developer.
Now, this person (who will remain nameless and is not whoever you're thinking of and is not particularly famous) initially seemed like a godsend. I had seen and admired his code for some time. I was very willing to even set aside some portion of the allocated time purely to work on "Blue Sky R&D", ie, any open source stuff he desired, to be released under any license desired. The deal was, of course, the rest of the time, when coding for The Company, that's all proprietary.
Now, I'm a software manager, which means I myself have been a prima-donna pain in the butt (in my younger days) and am very used to working with (and indeed, admiring the skills of) other prima-donna, largely ego-driven people. Since I count myself in this category, it's just a statement of fact, not a complaint.
Well, even with that background, I could not belive how downright stroppy this particular open-source coder was.
Some choice quotes: "your people will all be less talented than me. I don't want to have to spend all my time teaching them" (he never met the team).
"Since you'll own my code and tell me what to do, monetary compensation is the only reason I'll be there, so I need a very large salary". That really pissed me off. I happen to love programming, and I do believe in the project I'm working on. I also really appreciate getting paid.
What's the freaking condradiction here, people? With so many job openings, you pick the paid position for which you enjoy the work. Duh!
Anyway, needless to say, given the attitude and the unreasonable demands, I eventually gave up this individual. It's not fair of me, but the experience left me wary of possibly hiring other primarily Open-Source developers. Have any other people got good experiences to share? Maybe that will make me see things with a less jaundiced eye.
P.S. For what it's worth, I use *and contribute* to open source software. So should you.
Why does it matter that he's in England...?
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... doesn't he have a 'net connection? Heck, a Yahoo mail account and an internet cafe would suffice!
I have a silly/simple question for which I could not find the answer on Be's website. Maybe a good, well-composed answer to this question would get moderated up:-)
Question:
Basically, what's Be like inside? It is a BSD-like (or any *nix-like) thing? Are there forks, execs, and SysV-IPCs? Is it a VMS-like thing? Is it a (pre-OS X) Mac-like thing? Or is it just totally a different paradigm? If so, what's the paradigm?
I'm sure my experience is identical to that of many Linux users: Win98 was the last windows I bought. I was dual-booting Linux at the time, fiddling to get my modem working and to connect to my ISP (Compuserve).
Well, about 12 months ago, I realized it had been a year since I'd booted Windows at all, and I wanted a few gigs of disk space back. So I reformatted the partition to ext2 and that's that. I have neither the reason nor the means to boot Windows, period. (Well, I'm sure the Win98 CD is lying around somewhere, but why the hell would I go through the hassle to install it?)
So, a new Windows finally comes along. Who cares? Who cares if the interface is new and improved? When I want a new interface, I download something interesting from e.themes.org -- and can get a new theme every day, if that's what I want. Thanks to TurboTax Online, the one reason I thought I'd have for using Windows this year disappeared. Games? Yeah, there are a few Windows-only games I'd like to play, on the other hand, Nethack is my favorite game and all it needs is 80x24, baby:-)
So there's a new Windows. Who cares? I'm a non-smoker. The new Windows is as relevant to me as a new flavor of Marlboro.
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Clearly, I've been doing things entirely the wrong way.
From now on you'll get threats of physical harm , unless you get your tasks done!
I've been accessing Hotmail from Mozilla 1.3.1 and Mozilla 1.4 with no issues whatsoever, including sending attachments, receiving attachments, etc etc.
And before you get all wierd on me, I use Hotmail as the email address for spam-likely webforms (including the ones that swear they will never spam you). It's interesting to see how often they spam you anyways...
I guess Mr. Boies really is a lawyer after all.
Logging all internet activity, they'll get loads more failed connect requests than the 1 it takes to try. I'd still recommend it as "worth the try".
You're not even anonymous with anonymizer anyway, in case you didn't know.
OK, I'll bite: what do you mean? Seriously. Got any info? Can you reference an URL?
Never discount the possibility that whoever set up the filtering is clueless or incompetent. For that matter, the person who set up the filtering system may well have had to do so for legal reasons. Or they may be opposed to such filtering in principle, but not enough to put their job on the line. In which case they may well have conciously not blocked Anonymizer-type sites.
The reason why the supermarket puts locks on their sliding glass doors is not because it's impossible for someone to get in by smashing the glass, but rather because the insurance company needs to be shown that "reasonable effort" was made in deterring crime.
FWIW, for you people with minds in the gutter, my employer's new firewall is configured in a screwy way that was preventing me from posting to Slashdot (apparently this was not intentional; I have a (low-priority) help ticket open to get it fixed). You can see details in my log; apparently there's a Slashdot FAQ about this.
Anyways, the point is, by connecting to Slashdot thru Anonymizer's proxy, I get around my employer's firewall issue. The same logic holds for people behind N2H2's Bess or other similar "blockers".
In theory, one can fuse non-radioactive Helium-3 and get basically non-radioactive end-products, plus truckloads of energy. The problems are:
- Fusion technology isn't ready (yet)
- There's not much Helium-3 on Earth
There have been "blue-sky" plans (pardon the expression) for years and years about mining the moon for its Helium-3, once fusion technology is ready for it (ie, limited only by lack of fuel).Then again, "the only difference between theory and pactice is that, in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice"!
The 9th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is brilliant on this topic:
Jefferson refused to put his name to the Constitution until it had his 10 Amendments. One of them, the 9th, was to prevent the Government from explicitly listing the things you're allowed to do -- then using that as a way to restrict what you *can* do.
The language in the EU's law:
The people who wrote up the current legislation in Europe (and many US politicians, for that matter) fail to understand the lesson here:
It's useless trying make laws via ad-hoc enumeration.
Even if he leaves, .... so what? As long as he chooses to work on Linux, his work is GPL'ed. And as such, AOL will pick up the fruit of that labor. No, they can't charge for it -- but, they're not charging for the millions of "FREE AOL" CD's they ship now, either (and let's all hope and pray that the FREE AOL CD's of 2003 will contain Linux!)
Unless Alan does a complete Atlas Shrug and give up on Linux totally, the chances are that the "big bad capitalist AOL" will ship his kernel to millions of homes worldwide. Hmmm...
Thank you, Richard, for the GPL. It allows AOL to shackle guys like Alan so efficiently.
Look:
There is nothing wrong with a cool hack, made by hackers, that is solely of interest to other hackers, and that maybe even impresses your hacker friends.
This is all Just For Fun, people... never lose sight of that!
There's something wrong with Slashdot when Raster himself posts and gets modded up only to a "4". C'mon people -- this guy has done more than 99.999% of you to make the X environment ROCK!!
;->
But then again, I'm Rabid E fan who doesn't give a s^&*! what your grandmother can or can't figure out
As a kid, I always wondered what was the purpose of the funny character that - produced... now, I see... of course! Yen!!
:-)
So, minor correction: aside from the badging, there was probably *no* difference from the Sharp model
... was on a TRS-80 "Pocket Computer" of my Dad's. They came out at the same time as the Model 100 laptop, and were about 8 x 3.5 inches rectangle, 0.5 in. thick, and had one line of LCD display.
:-)
My Dad still, to this day, uses that TRS-80 Pocket Computer. It sits on his desk next to an IBM RS/6000 CAD workstation. Hey says it's very handy for entering & solving calculations, and the steel casing is very durable -- he takes it onsite to industrial plants all the time.
Radio Shack used to be such a cool hobbyist computer store... they even came out with a tiny, very quiet, thermal printer and a cassette tape drive for the Pocket Computer.
I believe that Dad's TRS-80 still has my first-ever program in its tiny little memory: a loop that beeps and prints "I love you, Dad!" (cut me some slack, I was in 5th grade at the time
Like many of you, there's a certain personal line that these cameras leap right over -- "It Just Ain't Right!"
I live in the Bay Area. There are cameras on top of every intersection's stoplights, to make sure nobody runs a red light (funny, I personally have never noticed rampant red-light-running, even before the cameras).
The traffic/stoplight cameras are over the line too, but they're very hard to protest nonviolently (they're 25 feet in the air and I'm in my car -- what to do?)
HOWEVER, these CCTV cameras sound much more amenable to resistance. TastyWheat has some interesting ideas (I especially like the "face glitter" idea, though I'm not sure I'd actually wear that around all day). What if a significant proportion of people, say 10%, were to always wear big floppy hats and sunglasses when outside? What if that were a Statement -- you will know my identity when I choose, and on my terms?
In the words of Benjamin Franklin, "When society trades its rights and freedoms for security it deserves neither the freedom or the security."
Resist!
I'm pretty sure Google has already been effected. Personally, I hope they're not affected.
Wait a minute... could it be that the Slashdot ubergeeks are unable to translate their mastery of the Pathetically Eclectic Rubbish Lister into the eclectic, quirky English language?
Somebody moderate this guy up. The original poster that he is debunking is pure flamebait.
I'm a manager at a closed-source development shop. A few months ago (you know, then the economy was good and companies were hiring), I came close to hiring a fairly prolific open-source developer.
Now, this person (who will remain nameless and is not whoever you're thinking of and is not particularly famous) initially seemed like a godsend. I had seen and admired his code for some time. I was very willing to even set aside some portion of the allocated time purely to work on "Blue Sky R&D", ie, any open source stuff he desired, to be released under any license desired. The deal was, of course, the rest of the time, when coding for The Company, that's all proprietary.
Now, I'm a software manager, which means I myself have been a prima-donna pain in the butt (in my younger days) and am very used to working with (and indeed, admiring the skills of) other prima-donna, largely ego-driven people. Since I count myself in this category, it's just a statement of fact, not a complaint.
Well, even with that background, I could not belive how downright stroppy this particular open-source coder was.
Some choice quotes: "your people will all be less talented than me. I don't want to have to spend all my time teaching them" (he never met the team).
"Since you'll own my code and tell me what to do, monetary compensation is the only reason I'll be there, so I need a very large salary". That really pissed me off. I happen to love programming, and I do believe in the project I'm working on. I also really appreciate getting paid.
What's the freaking condradiction here, people? With so many job openings, you pick the paid position for which you enjoy the work. Duh!
Anyway, needless to say, given the attitude and the unreasonable demands, I eventually gave up this individual. It's not fair of me, but the experience left me wary of possibly hiring other primarily Open-Source developers. Have any other people got good experiences to share? Maybe that will make me see things with a less jaundiced eye.
P.S. For what it's worth, I use *and contribute* to open source software. So should you.
... doesn't he have a 'net connection? Heck, a Yahoo mail account and an internet cafe would suffice!
Except... BillG owns the government, and therefore also the FBI, and by extension the Witness Protection Program.....
(note, the above depends on your having seen the movie The Usual Suspects)
I have a silly/simple question for which I could not find the answer on Be's website. Maybe a good, well-composed answer to this question would get moderated up :-)
Question:
Basically, what's Be like inside? It is a BSD-like (or any *nix-like) thing? Are there forks, execs, and SysV-IPCs? Is it a VMS-like thing? Is it a (pre-OS X) Mac-like thing? Or is it just totally a different paradigm? If so, what's the paradigm?
TIA
PD opined:
> c) I haven't mentioned clearcase. The less said about that horrendous mess the better.
Why I love and hate ClearCase, in yin/yang pairs:
+ more scalable than any other system I know of
- doesn't scale past ~100 users or ~5GB of data
+ MVFS is fucking beautiful ("vi foo.c@@/main/3")
- MVFS makes me hack up my client kernel with a slllooowww, unstable filesystem redirector
+ Support for super-flexible, customizable attribute/value metadata
- accessing said metadata is slow to the point of useless
+ support for multi-site (like a distributed database)
- multi-site info is read-only and hence not too useful
Well, about 12 months ago, I realized it had been a year since I'd booted Windows at all, and I wanted a few gigs of disk space back. So I reformatted the partition to ext2 and that's that. I have neither the reason nor the means to boot Windows, period. (Well, I'm sure the Win98 CD is lying around somewhere, but why the hell would I go through the hassle to install it?)
So, a new Windows finally comes along. Who cares? Who cares if the interface is new and improved? When I want a new interface, I download something interesting from e.themes.org -- and can get a new theme every day, if that's what I want. Thanks to TurboTax Online, the one reason I thought I'd have for using Windows this year disappeared. Games? Yeah, there are a few Windows-only games I'd like to play, on the other hand, Nethack is my favorite game and all it needs is 80x24, baby :-)
So there's a new Windows. Who cares? I'm a non-smoker. The new Windows is as relevant to me as a new flavor of Marlboro.
"Back in my day, we only had 4 colors! And we were *grateful*!"
-Cranky Kong, from _Donkey Kong Country_
... and it's very good and very effective.
You sell only to people you know (or friends of friends, a la "this guy's cool, I can vouch for him") and buy only from same.
Yes, people get busted, but only at huge law enforcement expense. Prolly not worth it for a few hundred or a thousand "pirated" CDs.
I wholeheartedly recommend fhwang's proposed model as the proper mechanism for civil disobedience in this case.