Got one, don't really like it
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We had an earlier version of this (Gyro Mouse, same company I think).
I never really liked it. Control is not so good. I think the only place I would want one of these is for giving a presentation in a lecture hall where you need more functionality than "next slide/last slide."
We were using it in a small conference room, everyone seated around a table. Eventually we switched to a cordless trackball. Much better, in my opinion. I also use a cordless trackball when I use the computer and the TV together. (It sits on the armrest of the sofa.)
Every day I go to NYT and Washinton Post to find out what editorials have been written. I'd like to see them collect all the particularly good ones into one place.
That said, I really like this new page. It might easily become my first stop for news.
Rather than take up valuable real estate (especially on the laptops everyone will be using to access the network), display a full page ad every half-hour of connecting.
I'm assuming you'd do your banner method via a proxy server that inserts your add, why not do a commercial-like ad for each time interval. I'm thinking of something like what Salon.com does for non-subscribers. Intrusive for just a few seconds, and then its like nothing ever happened.
Apparently he doesn't know what he's doing to other people.... I don't think he understands.
Of course he understands, but he makes money at it. That's all that matters to him. Explaining to these people why they are being rude won't accomplish anything, they already know. Taking away the financial rewards will. It seems to me things are going in the right direction. Now its more work for them and less lucrative. Maybe with the increasing savvy (or just overexposure) of the average internet user, it will become even harder for these jerks to stay in business.
Note that filtering (by users) doesn't really harm them since if you're filtering, you're by definition not going to buy anyway.
Currently most people who get digital TV get it with an antenna. Very few cable providers transmit it (digital cable != digital TV), so satellite is the only prevalent pay option.
Short answer, before analog broadcasts go away they get digital over the air.
Not in 2006. The goal is to get every new TV capable of receiving digital by 2006 so that analog broadcast can be phased out in (just a guess here) 2012. Probably later.
The great thing about LWN is that they actually write and analyse the news in addition to providing links to other sites. If you read the article they cover this and lay out their monthly budget (a minimum of $12K).
The best thing about LWN from my perspective was that they would actually take some time to analyze the news themselves. It's easy to put together a site that is just a collection of news stories. It takes a lot more effort to try to explain to your readers what the news means. For instance, their kernel coverage was fantastic for someone like me who doesn't really understand the kernel at more than a superficial level.
Second, LWN was unabashedly pro-Linux, not anti-commercial-software. They really took more of an OSI like attitude: Open-source is great, here's why, but we realize and accept that some companies won't do it, and they make useful software too.
Finally, LWN rarely required you to visit another page on their site to get to the article they were linking too. Linuxtoday does this and it annoys me to no end. On the front page LT quotes the first paragraph of the story, on the next page the first 3 paragraphs. Only from there can you go to the actual article.
On CNN Presents they looked at diets. The first conclusion is that all of these things work to make you lose weight, but the fad diets don't keep the pounds off because people can't stick to the diet. They gave 7 points for success. Let's see how many I can remember:
Keep trying
Don't be afraid to splurge once in a while
Weigh yourself often
Eat 5 small meals per day
Excercise one hour per day
A low fat, high carb diet (but low calorie) shows longest term success rate
What has worked for me, is that in the last year I've basically become a half-time vegetarian (about 4 small servings of meat a week). Without really trying, I've lost about 25 pounds in the year. Not a lot, but it makes a difference to me.
I still eat lots of carbs and love dairy. I no longer really crave meat. I probably don't get enough veggies. Small things like ordering small meals or not finishing the larger ones at restaurants can really help. So can eating a small snack when you get a little hungry rather than waiting until you are ravenous at meal times.
Basically, I think it boils down to two things: eating a balanced diet and making gradual lifestyle changes you can live with for the rest of your life. What this means varies from person to person. For me, doing this has been easy and losing a little weight was almost a side effect to leaving a somewhat healthier lifestyle.
I'll put in my plug for AllstarShop.com. They and mwave get my business. Good selection and reasonable shipping prices.
Mwave has a nice advantage that they will, for $9.00, put together and test a motherboard bundle, not a bad deal if you are nervous about putting a cooler on an Athlon or buying cheap RAM.
I'm currently using spamassasin with procmail to filter spam, which is nice, but it has introduced another failure point.
Basically, I forward all my e-mail from an e-mail gateway to my own box, run spamassassin, and then forward it off to my IMAP server (the gateway and IMAP server are out of my control).
What I would like is to run a cron job, look at what's already in my IMAP inbox, examine the new messages, and put them in an appropriate folder if they are flagged. I also have co-workers who's gateway and IMAP server are the same, so they are SOL at the moment. A solution like this would work great for them.
Now since there are Perl front ends to both IMAP and Spamassassin, what I want to do shouldn't be that hard to write, but has someone else already written it?
This was released days ago. I _do not_ mean to troll, but this really is rather latesom.
No, it wasn't. It was released on the 11th. There has been a freeze for a while, builds might have been calling themselves 1.1a, but the official release build was on the 11th.
Also, does anyone know when the site navigation toolbar went away? i loved that thing.
Because it didn't work well at all with tabbed browsing. Basically, the toolbar has to be brought inside the tab to be of any use. If you had a site with navigation links open in any tab, the bar would show up for all tabs, tricking you into thinking you could navigate where you couldn't.
Wait a while. Usually things like this and builds for other platforms show up a few days later. In days past the binary RH RPMs took a few days to show up.
Because MS isn't on trial for being a "bad company." They are on trial for excluding Netscape from the browser market. The states are trying to show that MS did to Netscape they are now trying to do to other companies.
Of your very valid complaints, only proprietary file formats bears directly on MS's wish to exclude other competitors. Correct me if I'm wrong, but even in the agreement with the DOJ, there is some provision for releasing these formats to other companies (but not to OSS makers).
The claim for this one is that a Patriot during the Gulf War failed to intercept a Scud missle and the Scud missile killed 26. Ergo, a software bug killed 26 people.
Considering that even the military now admits that no Patriot *ever* intercepted an Iraqi scud, this inference is unfounded.
Do you have any evidence that this is still their plan?
The last time I went looking on their site for info, they talked about Windows only as a requirement. I'm wondering if they've backed off of this plan.
I haven't seen any mention from them about Linux in at least 6 months.
Under system requirements they say "Other [than Windows] OS requirements coming later."
If they release for Windows and Linux, I'll buy it in a heartbeat. Otherwise, I'll wait.
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Read the article. The full ranking is there.
We had an earlier version of this (Gyro Mouse, same company I think).
I never really liked it. Control is not so good. I think the only place I would want one of these is for giving a presentation in a lecture hall where you need more functionality than "next slide/last slide."
We were using it in a small conference room, everyone seated around a table. Eventually we switched to a cordless trackball. Much better, in my opinion. I also use a cordless trackball when I use the computer and the TV together. (It sits on the armrest of the sofa.)
The DVD cases are nice, but how do I get the adhesive from their stickers off?
Recently mine have been coming in the tin boxes though. I don't know what to do with those.
The comments are about "Pet Warehouse", which is here while the link is for Pets Warehouse.
What happened, according to the Salon article, linked in the original /. article is that the "s" was left off.
More understandable since Pet Warehouse is a reputable outfit predating the dotcom boom. I've dealt with them lots of times.
Every day I go to NYT and Washinton Post to find out what editorials have been written. I'd like to see them collect all the particularly good ones into one place.
That said, I really like this new page. It might easily become my first stop for news.
Rather than take up valuable real estate (especially on the laptops everyone will be using to access the network), display a full page ad every half-hour of connecting.
I'm assuming you'd do your banner method via a proxy server that inserts your add, why not do a commercial-like ad for each time interval. I'm thinking of something like what Salon.com does for non-subscribers. Intrusive for just a few seconds, and then its like nothing ever happened.
I assume he's trying to get past ISP filters. Obviously people are being denied, by their ISP, the ability to learn about these great products.
Note that filtering (by users) doesn't really harm them since if you're filtering, you're by definition not going to buy anyway.
Currently most people who get digital TV get it with an antenna. Very few cable providers transmit it (digital cable != digital TV), so satellite is the only prevalent pay option.
Short answer, before analog broadcasts go away they get digital over the air.
Not in 2006. The goal is to get every new TV capable of receiving digital by 2006 so that analog broadcast can be phased out in (just a guess here) 2012. Probably later.
Their hosting is donated already.
The great thing about LWN is that they actually write and analyse the news in addition to providing links to other sites. If you read the article they cover this and lay out their monthly budget (a minimum of $12K).
The best thing about LWN from my perspective was that they would actually take some time to analyze the news themselves. It's easy to put together a site that is just a collection of news stories. It takes a lot more effort to try to explain to your readers what the news means. For instance, their kernel coverage was fantastic for someone like me who doesn't really understand the kernel at more than a superficial level.
Second, LWN was unabashedly pro-Linux, not anti-commercial-software. They really took more of an OSI like attitude: Open-source is great, here's why, but we realize and accept that some companies won't do it, and they make useful software too.
Finally, LWN rarely required you to visit another page on their site to get to the article they were linking too. Linuxtoday does this and it annoys me to no end. On the front page LT quotes the first paragraph of the story, on the next page the first 3 paragraphs. Only from there can you go to the actual article.
The Mandrake three CD set does not include the source code (well, of the kernel). It's all binary RPMs, no src.RPMS.
- Keep trying
- Don't be afraid to splurge once in a while
- Weigh yourself often
- Eat 5 small meals per day
- Excercise one hour per day
- A low fat, high carb diet (but low calorie) shows longest term success rate
What has worked for me, is that in the last year I've basically become a half-time vegetarian (about 4 small servings of meat a week). Without really trying, I've lost about 25 pounds in the year. Not a lot, but it makes a difference to me.I still eat lots of carbs and love dairy. I no longer really crave meat. I probably don't get enough veggies. Small things like ordering small meals or not finishing the larger ones at restaurants can really help. So can eating a small snack when you get a little hungry rather than waiting until you are ravenous at meal times.
Basically, I think it boils down to two things: eating a balanced diet and making gradual lifestyle changes you can live with for the rest of your life. What this means varies from person to person. For me, doing this has been easy and losing a little weight was almost a side effect to leaving a somewhat healthier lifestyle.
Mwave has a nice advantage that they will, for $9.00, put together and test a motherboard bundle, not a bad deal if you are nervous about putting a cooler on an Athlon or buying cheap RAM.
I'm currently using spamassasin with procmail to filter spam, which is nice, but it has introduced another failure point.
Basically, I forward all my e-mail from an e-mail gateway to my own box, run spamassassin, and then forward it off to my IMAP server (the gateway and IMAP server are out of my control).
What I would like is to run a cron job, look at what's already in my IMAP inbox, examine the new messages, and put them in an appropriate folder if they are flagged. I also have co-workers who's gateway and IMAP server are the same, so they are SOL at the moment. A solution like this would work great for them.
Now since there are Perl front ends to both IMAP and Spamassassin, what I want to do shouldn't be that hard to write, but has someone else already written it?
No, it wasn't. It was released on the 11th. There has been a freeze for a while, builds might have been calling themselves 1.1a, but the official release build was on the 11th.
See here or here for the history.
Because it didn't work well at all with tabbed browsing. Basically, the toolbar has to be brought inside the tab to be of any use. If you had a site with navigation links open in any tab, the bar would show up for all tabs, tricking you into thinking you could navigate where you couldn't.
I turned it off a long time ago because of this.
Wait a while. Usually things like this and builds for other platforms show up a few days later. In days past the binary RH RPMs took a few days to show up.
Because MS isn't on trial for being a "bad company." They are on trial for excluding Netscape from the browser market. The states are trying to show that MS did to Netscape they are now trying to do to other companies.
Of your very valid complaints, only proprietary file formats bears directly on MS's wish to exclude other competitors. Correct me if I'm wrong, but even in the agreement with the DOJ, there is some provision for releasing these formats to other companies (but not to OSS makers).
The claim for this one is that a Patriot during the Gulf War failed to intercept a Scud missle and the Scud missile killed 26. Ergo, a software bug killed 26 people.
Considering that even the military now admits that no Patriot *ever* intercepted an Iraqi scud, this inference is unfounded.
Yes, it prints. I think it just uses printcap, so in cupsd.conf put this line:
/etc/printcap
/etc/printcap doesn't match the printers you have through your CUPS server. (Different versions of CUPS shipped with different defaults, IIRC.)
Printcap
if your
That is exactly what this project is proposing.
Do you have any evidence that this is still their plan?
The last time I went looking on their site for info, they talked about Windows only as a requirement. I'm wondering if they've backed off of this plan.
I haven't seen any mention from them about Linux in at least 6 months.
Under system requirements they say "Other [than Windows] OS requirements coming later."
If they release for Windows and Linux, I'll buy it in a heartbeat. Otherwise, I'll wait.