A time of circular type, rounded fonts, sans serif and devices with a lot of edges. Will we revert back after we get tired of curvy devices and sharp, pointy, serif fonts?
Cirrus logic and trident. 3dfx too. All work with their generic drivers on high res. Never had a problem configuring to get 1280x1024 (for you developers).
The default installs, are too big. And its not just linux. If you don't do "custom" on some install's, you get Gnome and every God forsaken application that it can run with it. Well, at least with redhat. I think what the author might be touching uppon is that there is no consolidation. Sure, there is ldconfig, netstat -nr (or is that route, i'm a bsd person). But knowing the specifics may make it hard.
Not to say there isn't a "custom" install for all of them. I swear.... on redhat, the custom install made me deselect so much. It was a bit overwhelming. especially after i broke a dependency, clicked back and had to start all over again.
And BSD people, BSD/OS and freebsd is guilty. Perhaps not as much as redhat. Bsd/os, to install X requires an extra 300+ megs. FOR WHAT? My X server compiles to only a few megs. crimey. ANd it won't let me do a "custom" install.
The only agreement i have is that yes, unless you read the 3 pages on compiling a kernel, you are lost. But how many times do you do that? Not often. As for device driver installation, modules are and aren't the most intuitive thing. Somteims they work, sometimes they don't. And recompiling them or the kernel instead isn't as simple as the silly, configure file-less clicking of windows. Yeck.
People have already started touting to turn off javascript/plugin's/use proxise. This only solves pop-ups. But what if they were intrusive. That a url redirects to an ad, and then to the real content? You can't proxy THAT out. Especially if it is done at random.
AND! (and) if the content of the page is done via something like, php, you can load the add right into the page using an http get from one server to another and just pump it out.
If you are the man in the middle near one of the two ends, its always possible to sniff all connections for the pertinent one (or multiple if you split the communications) and when enough data is passed through, to cut off one end.
This is why a combination of cryptography and stegonography is needed. And even then, it is not 100%.
Advocacy by implementation is great! CPAN is a great example. Advocacy by arguing is silly. Its like politicians. Yeah Gore did this. Yeah GW did that. (gw? gw-basic? oh my)
C'mmon people, tell us what is so great about you and your language and how it works and what you believe in. But don't argue against everything else as if it was a disease from the gates of hell. I personally dislike python, but oyu know what? It might be great for OOP for others. I'll let you be to create whatever wonders you can come up with. Point being, you are comfortable, and when you do somethign great, I can port it over.
Tell me the truth. How many of you actually looked at the perl cookbook and used solutions in it by porting it to PHP, Java,etc..
Put down your gloves, pick up your keyboards and stop. DO as the conclusion, which is quite terse for the piont he really is making..
I don't really hate advocacy. We do it in a dumb way
There are three sides to everything. THe stereotype, the good and the bad. Problem is, the stereotype is prevailing: "Hackers are evil, young and need to be locked away, otherwise they will promote the anarchy."
Truth of the matter is that the good, true innovation, security, trying to improve by challenging, sharing knowledge, etc.. need to be seen. There are the knee-jerk reactionaries out there, and truth is that there are too many out there. TOo many who will do as the bad might do, tear down websites, or as some of the good might do: write nasty letters and do things in an angry light.
Somehow, the country, not just politicians, need to see what this is really all about and why it affects John Q. Public. We need to support lawyers like this, by not trying to interpret the law, but by supporting the better half of the whole situation. So when he goes up there and says, "No, you are wrong. Look at all of these people as proof otherwise. Look at all of the good that has come of it." He won't be smacked with, "Well look how angry/malicious the community (the bad and the good not clearly stated) IS!"
Perhaps it was written in the thoughts of Themes.org. Like you don't need to have ethics and morals.. but you should anyway. JUst like the teenage, "I need _______ or i'll never survive" =)
I indeed hope they do add all of those things without sacrificing the interface. Its sorta like Handspring modules. they added a new interface without killing it. If you want to use the dictionary, pop in the module and run the app.
I guess what I'm saying is that the simplistic interface that exists should remain intact. Don't add extra steps just to go online - make it another communication device over tcp/ip. Same with blue tooth etc, al.
The design should be to accept all information about charging a card (card number, name, merchant id, etc.. ) and only data coming out should be a success or a failure. How the database was made accessible is a mystery to me, but allowing the database records to be pulled en masse is just a flaw in design.
Repeat after me. DB's and their backend processes should be firewalled and limited. Heck, a simple socket that takes in a request and returns a success or failure isn't all THAT hard.
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What these people need is a customer service "line". Some place where they an email or even chat to live representatives. That and a status page of what is going on with their networks.
It might not be great for marketing that something is actually down... but its better than keeping your lip buttoned.
No, you stated that people download more than they upload for laziness and legal reasons You are now arguing a different point which i made no statement on.
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I meant did atari think of it independently of the original email and arapnet.
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http://www.sbrowning.com/vintage/index.php3?p=19
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A time of circular type, rounded fonts, sans serif and devices with a lot of edges. Will we revert back after we get tired of curvy devices and sharp, pointy, serif fonts?
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Sorry, us old school DOS people never go away
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or at least raid5 where every block is duplicated and distributed?
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Cirrus logic and trident. 3dfx too. All work with their generic drivers on high res. Never had a problem configuring to get 1280x1024 (for you developers).
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Not to say there isn't a "custom" install for all of them. I swear.... on redhat, the custom install made me deselect so much. It was a bit overwhelming. especially after i broke a dependency, clicked back and had to start all over again.
And BSD people, BSD/OS and freebsd is guilty. Perhaps not as much as redhat. Bsd/os, to install X requires an extra 300+ megs. FOR WHAT? My X server compiles to only a few megs. crimey. ANd it won't let me do a "custom" install.
The only agreement i have is that yes, unless you read the 3 pages on compiling a kernel, you are lost. But how many times do you do that? Not often. As for device driver installation, modules are and aren't the most intuitive thing. Somteims they work, sometimes they don't. And recompiling them or the kernel instead isn't as simple as the silly, configure file-less clicking of windows. Yeck.
My $0.02 EC
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And if the ad received randomly? And what if not in redirect manner? What if the article was sometimes replaced with content depending on /dev/random?
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AND! (and) if the content of the page is done via something like, php, you can load the add right into the page using an http get from one server to another and just pump it out.
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This is why a combination of cryptography and stegonography is needed. And even then, it is not 100%.
Just being cap'n obvious...
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You need a GPS to find it =)
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So what if the device reads it to you? Does the device go to jail?
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C'mmon people, tell us what is so great about you and your language and how it works and what you believe in. But don't argue against everything else as if it was a disease from the gates of hell. I personally dislike python, but oyu know what? It might be great for OOP for others. I'll let you be to create whatever wonders you can come up with. Point being, you are comfortable, and when you do somethign great, I can port it over. Tell me the truth. How many of you actually looked at the perl cookbook and used solutions in it by porting it to PHP, Java,etc..
Put down your gloves, pick up your keyboards and stop. DO as the conclusion, which is quite terse for the piont he really is making..
I don't really hate advocacy. We do it in a dumb way
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Truth of the matter is that the good, true innovation, security, trying to improve by challenging, sharing knowledge, etc.. need to be seen. There are the knee-jerk reactionaries out there, and truth is that there are too many out there. TOo many who will do as the bad might do, tear down websites, or as some of the good might do: write nasty letters and do things in an angry light.
Somehow, the country, not just politicians, need to see what this is really all about and why it affects John Q. Public. We need to support lawyers like this, by not trying to interpret the law, but by supporting the better half of the whole situation. So when he goes up there and says, "No, you are wrong. Look at all of these people as proof otherwise. Look at all of the good that has come of it." He won't be smacked with, "Well look how angry/malicious the community (the bad and the good not clearly stated) IS!"
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Perhaps it was written in the thoughts of Themes.org. Like you don't need to have ethics and morals.. but you should anyway. JUst like the teenage, "I need _______ or i'll never survive" =)
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I indeed hope they do add all of those things without sacrificing the interface. Its sorta like Handspring modules. they added a new interface without killing it. If you want to use the dictionary, pop in the module and run the app. I guess what I'm saying is that the simplistic interface that exists should remain intact. Don't add extra steps just to go online - make it another communication device over tcp/ip. Same with blue tooth etc, al.
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Repeat after me. DB's and their backend processes should be firewalled and limited. Heck, a simple socket that takes in a request and returns a success or failure isn't all THAT hard.
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Do you really want mail sent from a roaming host?
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its called a transparent proxy. and if a business on dsl needs high bandwidth smtp, let them apply for usage and keep them on a strict TOS.
so anyone who's domain name doesn't match the ip it is coming from, just reject them. a quick way to stop spammers.
but this reply will fall on deaf ears anyway..
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According to that url, and a spokesperson for 3dfx, it seems like they were.
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What these people need is a customer service "line". Some place where they an email or even chat to live representatives. That and a status page of what is going on with their networks.
It might not be great for marketing that something is actually down... but its better than keeping your lip buttoned.
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Dual band works in the US. It switches from digital to analog on a slew of phones i've seen in operation in the US.
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Most of non binary usenet. any www.*news*.com, slashdot.org and so forth. software arcihves...
It shoulldn't be anything that ftp.cdrom.com can't handle =)
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Wow, didn't know whatever is growing on that thing gave it life. Put some dead bodies in there and you can have a regular zombie jamborie!
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No, you stated that people download more than they upload for laziness and legal reasons You are now arguing a different point which i made no statement on.
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