That's funny, I was just reading about this here, in an article by Joshua Green in the Atlantic Monthly about Rove's dirty tricks. Here's the quote:
One of the first highlights of his career was the famously tight 1986 Texas governor's race, in which his candidate and mentor, the Republican oilman Bill Clements, sought to oust the Democratic incumbent Mark White. The race is legendary in Texas political lore for Rove's discovery that his office was bugged--news of which, coincidentally or not, distracted attention from an evening debate in which his candidate was expected to fare poorly.
And then there's everyone's favorite ex-mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, going on some incredible anti-weasel harangue.
Choice quote: "This excessive concern with little weasels is a sickness. There are probably very few people who would be as honest with you about that. But you should go consult a psychologist or a psychiatrist, and have him help you with this excessive concern, how you are devoting your life to weasels."
"isn't implemented in Internet Explorer" is unfortunately a deal breaker for many PHBs. You might just as well say "What is missing is the option to scale to a certain width and then stop."
Sucks, I know. Another brilliant idea crippled by that rotten browser.
But if you get rid of that fear and STOP being afraid of looking silly in public, you might just have a friendly laugh with the gorgeous girl and say something like "Speaking of Jack, One eyed Jack's yearning to go a peeping in a seafood store!"
Huh. I can change permissions on files on a remote host using RBrowser Lite. (That'd be Command-3.) Not owners or groups, but permissions, yes. Methinks that's a typo on the RBrowser page?
You can make a cuica out of a coffee can: remove both ends, replace the plastic lid and tape it down, and (somehow) affix a bamboo skewer to the inside of the lid. Rub the skewer with your (rosined-up) fingers, and voila: it's Samba time.
Well, the latest version of MT-Newswatcher for Mac OS X utilizes Bayesian filtering to filter Spam out of newsgroup postings. Maybe not the most unusual application of things Bayesian, but a welcome one nonetheless.
If the offending user's on OS X (which they probably ain't, but) they should install Throttled on their machine. That's what I use to keep my roommates from getting too pissed about pokey net connections when I'm "riding the donkey."
I used to use CarraFix, but Throttled whips the shit out of it.
I had to play around with the startup file for a few hours to get it working right. Here's my relevant modifications, if anyone's interested:
/usr/local/sbin/throttled -s $MAXSPEED -d 17777 -p 1 -d 17778 -p 2 #added another socket for mldonkey /usr/local/sbin/throttled -s 5120 -d 5555 -p 3 # all rules below are for ipfw, there is many ways you can set this up. # we have simplified this for new users by removing ip specific ipfw rules. # this fixes isses for dynamic ip users, but if you want rules bound to # a single ip you can use either of the examples below. # # the line below finds your ip automatically # IP=$(/sbin/ifconfig $INTERFACE inet |/usr/bin/sed -n 's/^.*inet\ \(\([0-9]\{1,3\}\.\)\{3\}[0-9]\{1,3\}\).*/\1/p' | tail -n 1) # # you can also specify the ip address by doing # IP=192.168.1.7 # IP = any IP=192.168.1.151 # default prioritized configuration (wincent.org style config) # these rules allow http/https/ssh/telnet/smtp/aim/pop/irc/sirc # to be prioritized by the throttle. # # Setting up the configuration this way catches more file transfer types # and minimizes lag in response driven services. # prioritize http/https /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 80 out xmit $INTERFACE /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 443 out xmit $INTERFACE # prioritize ssh and telnet /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 22 out xmit $INTERFACE /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 23 out xmit $INTERFACE # prioritize imap and smtp /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 143 out xmit $INTERFACE /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 25 out xmit $INTERFACE #carrafix style /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 25 via $INTERFACE # prioritize ftp directory listings /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 21 out xmit $INTERFACE # prioritize aim or iChat /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 5190 out xmit $INTERFACE # prioritize msn #/sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 1863 out xmit $INTERFACE # prioritize pop3 /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 110 out xmit $INTERFACE # prioritize irc and sirc /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 6667 out xmit $INTERFACE /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 6668 out xmit $INTERFACE /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 9999 out xmit $INTERFACE # prioritize hotline and carracho "listing" ports (client end) /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 5500 out xmit $INTERFACE /sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP to any 6700 out xmit $INTERFACE # prioritize hotline and carracho "listing" ports (server end) #/sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP 5500 to any out xmit $INTERFACE #/sbin/ipfw add divert 17778 tcp from $IP 6700 to any out xmit $INTERFACE #throttling mldonkey /sbin/ipfw add divert 5555 tcp from $IP 4662 to any out xmit $INTERFACE /sbin/ipfw add divert 5555 udp from $IP 4666 to any out xmit $INTERFACE #carrafix style #/sbin/ipfw add divert 5555 tcp from $IP to any 4662 via $INTERFACE #/sbin/ipfw add divert 5555 udp from $IP to any 4666 via $INTERFACE #throttling overnet (are all these necessary?) /sbin/ipfw add divert 5555 tcp from $IP 4391 to any out xmit $INTERFACE /sbin/ipfw add divert 5555 tcp from $IP to any 4391 out xmit $INTERFACE /sbin/ipfw add divert 5555 udp from $IP 4391 to any out xmit $INTERFACE /sbin/ipfw add divert 5555 udp from $IP to any 4391 out xmit $INTERFACE #th
Yeah, all right, I can see both sides. When I lived in Chicago and had to take the train at 8AM nose-to-nose with a bunch of ugly insensitive fatheads, I was sure glad for my Walkman (and my sunglasses, too, on mornings when I was feeling just a little too groggy and vulnerable). But on the other hand, a few years ago, living in NYC, I met a girl on the subway (she was reading an old falling-apart book and I was feeling gregarious and asked her about it) and she became my girlfriend. Which would never have happened, had we both been wrapped up in our own private musical worlds.
I guess it's nice to have an option, to be open for communication, or to shut yourself off from it. (or maybe the moral of the story is to move to NYC, with its hot, book-reading chicks using public transportation)
One more thing: my old Psychology professor told us that lots of schizophrenics rely upon Walkmen to try to drown out the voices in their heads.
...and tonight, as I was trying to rush through customs from one flight to a connecting flight, the entire validation system went down for about 15 minutes, leaving me and about 200 other people in a panic of nailbiting anxiety. The customs agent told me that the crash was due to their having installed the new software needed for the fingerprinting and photo database, and apparently the system had gone down all over the US. All the agents were issued backup CDs to boot up from (although my agent seemed to be having a hard time figuring out how to put the CD into the drive) and then things were back to normal, although presumably without the new photo/fingerprinting system. All the computers were running W2K Professional and had a cool (tho ominous) Department of Homeland Security logo on them.
(There's a program for OS X, SpamStopper that'll do this quite nicely.) I seem to remember an article on/. a while back (sorry, too lazy to look for it) about a study wherein people put up test email addresses on a variety of pages and tracked the amount of SPAM they received. After one month, they replaced one of the addresses with an obfuscated one, and the amount of SPAM fell off dramatically.
Sure, check this article for instructions on how to make a one-line-of-code web browser in Cocoa using WebCore (and the comment at the bottom of the article which tells how to make a no-line-of-code browser!)
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Two words:
white spraypaint.
maybe it was an iBook?
Ars Technica's Macintoshian Achaia is the best of the Mac discusssion forums, I think, and there's plenty of info for switchers.
Yo, it's to champ at the bit, not to chomp at it. They're synonyms, sure, but the proper word is champ.
And then there's everyone's favorite ex-mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, going on some incredible anti-weasel harangue.
Choice quote:
"This excessive concern with little weasels is a sickness. There are probably very few people who would be as honest with you about that. But you should go consult a psychologist or a psychiatrist, and have him help you with this excessive concern, how you are devoting your life to weasels."
"isn't implemented in Internet Explorer" is unfortunately a deal breaker for many PHBs. You might just as well say "What is missing is the option to scale to a certain width and then stop."
Sucks, I know. Another brilliant idea crippled by that rotten browser.
But if you get rid of that fear and STOP being afraid of looking silly in public, you might just have a friendly laugh with the gorgeous girl and say something like "Speaking of Jack, One eyed Jack's yearning to go a peeping in a seafood store!"
Huh. I can change permissions on files on a remote host using RBrowser Lite. (That'd be Command-3.) Not owners or groups, but permissions, yes. Methinks that's a typo on the RBrowser page?
You can make a cuica out of a coffee can: remove both ends, replace the plastic lid and tape it down, and (somehow) affix a bamboo skewer to the inside of the lid. Rub the skewer with your (rosined-up) fingers, and voila: it's Samba time.
Well, the latest version of MT-Newswatcher for Mac OS X utilizes Bayesian filtering to filter Spam out of newsgroup postings. Maybe not the most unusual application of things Bayesian, but a welcome one nonetheless.
I used to use CarraFix, but Throttled whips the shit out of it.
I had to play around with the startup file for a few hours to get it working right. Here's my relevant modifications, if anyone's interested:
Yeah, all right, I can see both sides. When I lived in Chicago and had to take the train at 8AM nose-to-nose with a bunch of ugly insensitive fatheads, I was sure glad for my Walkman (and my sunglasses, too, on mornings when I was feeling just a little too groggy and vulnerable). But on the other hand, a few years ago, living in NYC, I met a girl on the subway (she was reading an old falling-apart book and I was feeling gregarious and asked her about it) and she became my girlfriend. Which would never have happened, had we both been wrapped up in our own private musical worlds.
I guess it's nice to have an option, to be open for communication, or to shut yourself off from it. (or maybe the moral of the story is to move to NYC, with its hot, book-reading chicks using public transportation)
One more thing: my old Psychology professor told us that lots of schizophrenics rely upon Walkmen to try to drown out the voices in their heads.
Now, as for what I like about Jobs? He's a really charismatic person who is willing to tell people to go fly a kite.
I just spent all day reading the Mac Folklore site, and these 2 anecdotes show what an insane bastard Jobs is. Check it out:
A Message for Adam
Gobble, Gobble, Gobble
From the Changelog:
* Ask Jeeves searching has been added to Mozilla 1.6.
WHY? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY??
Uh, ask Jeeves?
qrime
lia
levitated (Flash)
grundig
...and tonight, as I was trying to rush through customs from one flight to a connecting flight, the entire validation system went down for about 15 minutes, leaving me and about 200 other people in a panic of nailbiting anxiety. The customs agent told me that the crash was due to their having installed the new software needed for the fingerprinting and photo database, and apparently the system had gone down all over the US. All the agents were issued backup CDs to boot up from (although my agent seemed to be having a hard time figuring out how to put the CD into the drive) and then things were back to normal, although presumably without the new photo/fingerprinting system. All the computers were running W2K Professional and had a cool (tho ominous) Department of Homeland Security logo on them.
I seem to remember an article on
I believe this is most appropriate in response to the question "Got a match?"
Sure, check this article for instructions on how to make a one-line-of-code web browser in Cocoa using WebCore (and the comment at the bottom of the article which tells how to make a no-line-of-code browser!)
well, Crush FTP is a damn fine FTP server and runs on Mac OS9, OSX, Linux, Windows, OS/2... That might make it a little easier.
just a tidbit of a quibble, I believe command-option-shift F will fit images proportionally to the box.
Image blocking? You want PithHelmet.
BBEdit won't recognize Safari?? Hmm, have you tried specifying it manually, via the prefs? "Preferences->HTML Preview->Add..."
That might do the trick.
apparently, you're alone in your opinion. Sorry.