It all was in spring 1994 if I remember right when I shortly killfiled every.com and.net leaving nothing but.edu and.mil posts. That worked for a while, but people graduated and had to use those addresses. No one wanted to have an aol.com address like it was some disease.
You can take the dejanews.com power search page, save it and edit the crap out of it. They make it easy as you will see a few comments in there that say "content starts here" and "content ends here." You can cut everything above and below that.
As far as the banner ads go, visit http://waldherr.org/junkbuster/ where you can easily install an industrial strength anti ad tool. Its easy to maintain too. If a sex banner or eye killer comes into view, just insert that address into the blockfile. No need to restart anything as the next time you load a page, you can see the changes take effect immediately.
May your surfing days (and nights) be enjoyable and not surf in sewage and spam.
Its not controlling content, but damage control. Its not the type of content, but noise is not useful. Can you think of a use for spam? And there is no way of controlling it, but to cut it off. There are many people who wish to contribute actual content, but when there is a big pipe pushing raw noise into the newsgroups, its utility is diminished. It breaks.
Usenet might break and become no more if spammers are unchecked. The death penalty might be the lesser of two evils.
It was easy at first to eliminate spam from AOL. Since 100% of the content from AOL was spam, it was mighty easy to add a killfile. Then it was netcom, etc... Then they got smart and munged addresses.
What bothers me is that AOL is not a true internet provider in the sense that you can't finger a user or use the traditional ntalk to talk some sense into the newbie. AOL lets them hide. The world they know is behind that free CD they got and the protected proprietary services they got. Somehow they found the newsgroups attractive and decided to spam them.
Since there is no way to identify AOL users, the only way I know how to eliminate the crap is to kill it all.
I remember on fateful morning many moons ago when I fired up tin to read the newsgroups and each post was repeated seven times each and from this new entity called "aol.com" So, I read through them (where did all the good news go?) and found they were ALL one liners and "me too" or something absurd. I wasn't mad, just pissed off! Usenet went downhill after that. The once mighty alt.sex newsgroup that had readership of 100,000 died into a cesspool of spam and is still dead.
It amazes me how a provider will not educate users how to properly use the service, but will only tell them how easy it is with point and click. "Click here, now you can post! See how easy that was?"
Here's what it will cost to run a computer all month for your electric bill at home if you pay $0.08 per kilowatt hour:
40 watts * 0.08 cents/1000watthour *24hours * 30 days =$2.30
If you get the industrial rate at $0.02 per kilowatt hour, that will be about $0.58 per box.
UPS supplies seem to draw much more. They seem to have a type of saturation transformer where the iron core is intentionally saturated with excessive current to give a well regulated and safe voltage to your computer including isolating it from the mains.
I prefer to keep the AC available. Sometimes a topic can be unpopular and there are times I would not want my name attatched to something due to employment reasons. The AC feature is quite valuable at times. I have seen many good AC posts and most do get moderated up quickly.
However, in this case, I would not be offended if the knucklehead's IP address somehow leaked out.
I have played with Apple ][ emulators and they work great. Tarballs full of the old classic warez images are available just for looking. The only problem is playing games as they run hundreds of times faster than reasonable.
However, I would prefer the actual Apple box as they are solid pieces of equipment. If I had one, I knew it would last forever. The schematics are available and they have the basic TTL parts, so any repairs would be trivial by anyone with basic troubleshooting experience.
I have objectionable content at work. Dejanews among other things was blocked for about a year. You know the usenet newsgroups where people can say anything and it might offend... Meanwhile, it just encouraged others to hunt for sites that would make it through the blocking software. So, in reality, having access blocked made it worse. It all came to an end when the plant manager (a woman) with a few customers entered a department manager's office and saw an animated lewd screensaver. The internet was to blame and there it went (for about a week.)
You might not believe this, but when the blocking software was removed, those naughty people started moving on to other challenges, like trolling the NRA chatrooms. I guess some people are determined to eternally rebel.
If you are worried about having access blocked, there are ways to circumvent the problem. People get creative.
When it comes to banning things, I'd have to say that this is the work of polititions at its finest. Its going to get ugly, but that is the way they like it.
As I understand, polititions are lawyers. Their friends are lawyers. Who benefits from stupid laws passed by polititions? Polititions! Even these bad ones are the experts in the field and will refer cases to friends.
When the internet exploded here in the USA, porn became controversial. A once tame internet with a few juicy pictures tucked away in the newsgroups were brought to public attention. The next thing I knew, porn was everywhere. It was popular. Every spectator trying to make a buck had to test the laws and put up a porno webpage. Porn was spammed. It was no longer hidden, but it would find you, and on a daily basis even if you just had email. All thanks to the religious and political nuts who brought this "evil" to our attention.
So, Australia is going to get a lot of porn. Most of it will be coming from within. Brace for it! You asked for it!
Rumors of vaporware, now that's even better! See how people all got worked up over this? Maybe it was leaked on purpose this way, or perhaps as you suggest, maybe someone just made it all up. I prefer to call it innovative marketing.
An M$-built window manager. Brrrr. If it was GPLed . ..
I don't envision Microsoft GPL'ing anything. It does not seem to be their style to actively develop in an open. Why would they budget their resources to a product that has no ties with monetary return when it comes to shrinked wrap sales? They could benefit by supporting GPL software, but I have never seen Microsoft as supporting software. Maybe someone else could relate to Microsoft support, but it escapes my experience.
I can't think of any announced ports that never occured...
Vaporware does not imply that it won't be done, but it describes a product that does not exist for some time.
For example, if evil company X promises product Y at Z date, you have 0 until Z. Not only that, W competitors will see that X in gearing up for Y and can steamroll their marketing projections for U. What this means is that U will get 0 and consumers get the shaft.
Its not cool to joke about bombing a company that has problems with quality. Its not very nice and a good way to get in heaps'o'trouble.
Put it in perspective by imagining one of your coworkers in the next cubicle laughing at great lengths about the company's new firearms policy. Would it make you uneasy?
If your software really is useful, I'd speculate that you would have more long-term success with open-sourced software than anything else, and that the GPL would be most successful of all.
If someone wants code to be looked at, I'm sure people who enjoy coding prefer a code base that can be freely added to and borrowed from on a whim. If an application proves useful and I know it is GPL, I might be inclined to see the intimate details of how it works and learn something from the author. While I'm at it, I might catch a few bugs and help add something useful myself.
On the other hand, if the source code of a bloated operating system were available under a restrictive license, I would not even want to waste my time or contaminate my thinking with it. I would want to "clean room" myself away and deny ever seeing it.
I have nightmares of being chased by Bill Gates with reams of Windows source code. "Here, touch it!"
Some anonymous poster described this effect to me:
"It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the Beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion."
So what we have here is someone experienced in tilting back cold refreshing 16oz Jolt Cola Classics (tm) and discovered the New Improved Jolt. When the fingers hit the keyboard, the once steady hands turned into convultions of mouse clicking like behavior.
I just took a visit to LinuxMall and do not ever remember their pages quite so huge! Its mighty busy and could be distracting if I just wanted to order something. Are they trying to be a portal or something?
You can donate more than just the slotted $5 by increasing the quantity multiplier. When I ordered the cheap Debian cd, I put a good number in the donation box.
Speaking about navel gazing, there was a poll that surveyed (as a joke) how many times one cleaned out his/her/it navel: daily, weekly, monthly, never?
Navels are the point where the lifeblood to a new entity is sourced. So I guess this term would come from the fact that some navels never have the fuzz cleaned out of them. Or more concisely, that it would be a topic that is raw, inclomplete, and kind of undeveloped. On the other hand, why would shiny rings adorning the navel be attractive?
Oh hell, I don't know. Someone help me attempt to understand this term. Perhaps navel gazing is a cliche. A passing fad, but with tshirts and summertime, maybe not.
In 20 years, that reel will be worth less than a pile of dog poopoo.
Lucas has used special degrading film for his trailer, and has done it as well for those reels.
Unless freezing causes the film structure to crack or crystalize in an undesired way, chemical reactions can be negligible for decades. Nothing quite like a fresh film out of a hibernation time capsule. Figure your costs of freezing, about an average of 60 watts to keep the freezer going, 8 cents per kilowatt hour, per month, per 20 years. That would be about $829.44. Would it be worth it?
(considering if you not defrost it as to let water condense all over it!)
I have had issues with Netscape 4.x being stable before, but have had no problems with it in the Redhat 6.0 distro. The problem with severe memory leaks and random crashing and on certain pages appears to have vanished. I only restarted netscape a few days ago when I accidently killed the window with Alt-W (I frequently have dozens of browser windows open.)
Would I test Microsoft's browser? No Thanks, I would never trust a code base like that on my computer. I don't want something reading my/etc or/home or whatever back to the parent company to see what competitor's products I have. Its a matter of trust and Microsoft does not have it. Not only that, I don't want to get comfortable with such a product to only get "locked in" to the standards they promote. Active-X? No Thanks!
Regardless of my lack of problems, I hope to have a GPL'd browser soon. It would be nice to swap code with a browser and build something on a whim.
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Humor? How far would you go to consider something humorous? Humor is insight of a different character.
Well, what do you think about MEEPT!!
(Whatever happened to that zany character? The sheer nonsense, the humorous insight, the wacked out prose of the glorious meept really had a personality.)
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It all was in spring 1994 if I remember right when I shortly killfiled every .com and .net leaving nothing but .edu and .mil posts. That worked for a while, but people graduated and had to use those addresses. No one wanted to have an aol.com address like it was some disease.
You can take the dejanews.com power search page, save it and edit the crap out of it. They make it easy as you will see a few comments in there that say "content starts here" and "content ends here." You can cut everything above and below that.
As far as the banner ads go, visit http://waldherr.org/junkbuster/ where you can easily install an industrial strength anti ad tool. Its easy to maintain too. If a sex banner or eye killer comes into view, just insert that address into the blockfile. No need to restart anything as the next time you load a page, you can see the changes take effect immediately.
May your surfing days (and nights) be enjoyable and not surf in sewage and spam.
Dear troll,
Please create an account with the following link:
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=prefere nces
where you can remove this author that does not inspire your soul. Doing this may make you more productive and others too! Its a win-win situation!
Its not controlling content, but damage control. Its not the type of content, but noise is not useful. Can you think of a use for spam? And there is no way of controlling it, but to cut it off. There are many people who wish to contribute actual content, but when there is a big pipe pushing raw noise into the newsgroups, its utility is diminished. It breaks.
Usenet might break and become no more if spammers are unchecked. The death penalty might be the lesser of two evils.
It was easy at first to eliminate spam from AOL. Since 100% of the content from AOL was spam, it was mighty easy to add a killfile. Then it was netcom, etc... Then they got smart and munged addresses.
What bothers me is that AOL is not a true internet provider in the sense that you can't finger a user or use the traditional ntalk to talk some sense into the newbie. AOL lets them hide. The world they know is behind that free CD they got and the protected proprietary services they got. Somehow they found the newsgroups attractive and decided to spam them.
Since there is no way to identify AOL users, the only way I know how to eliminate the crap is to kill it all.
I remember on fateful morning many moons ago when I fired up tin to read the newsgroups and each post was repeated seven times each and from this new entity called "aol.com" So, I read through them (where did all the good news go?) and found they were ALL one liners and "me too" or something absurd. I wasn't mad, just pissed off! Usenet went downhill after that. The once mighty alt.sex newsgroup that had readership of 100,000 died into a cesspool of spam and is still dead.
It amazes me how a provider will not educate users how to properly use the service, but will only tell them how easy it is with point and click. "Click here, now you can post! See how easy that was?"
Death to usenet? No, death to AOL!
Here's what it will cost to run a computer all month for your electric bill at home if you pay $0.08 per kilowatt hour:
40 watts * 0.08 cents/1000watthour *24hours * 30 days
=$2.30
If you get the industrial rate at $0.02 per kilowatt hour, that will be about $0.58 per box.
UPS supplies seem to draw much more. They seem to have a type of saturation transformer where the iron core is intentionally saturated with excessive current to give a well regulated and safe voltage to your computer including isolating it from the mains.
I prefer to keep the AC available. Sometimes a topic can be unpopular and there are times I would not want my name attatched to something due to employment reasons. The AC feature is quite valuable at times. I have seen many good AC posts and most do get moderated up quickly.
However, in this case, I would not be offended if the knucklehead's IP address somehow leaked out.
I have played with Apple ][ emulators and they work great. Tarballs full of the old classic warez images are available just for looking. The only problem is playing games as they run hundreds of times faster than reasonable.
However, I would prefer the actual Apple box as they are solid pieces of equipment. If I had one, I knew it would last forever. The schematics are available and they have the basic TTL parts, so any repairs would be trivial by anyone with basic troubleshooting experience.
Is there any encoder source code available? GPL? Bladenc is an excellent encoder, but I have not seen the source for it.
I have objectionable content at work. Dejanews among other things was blocked for about a year. You know the usenet newsgroups where people can say anything and it might offend... Meanwhile, it just encouraged others to hunt for sites that would make it through the blocking software. So, in reality, having access blocked made it worse. It all came to an end when the plant manager (a woman) with a few customers entered a department manager's office and saw an animated lewd screensaver. The internet was to blame and there it went (for about a week.)
You might not believe this, but when the blocking software was removed, those naughty people started moving on to other challenges, like trolling the NRA chatrooms. I guess some people are determined to eternally rebel.
If you are worried about having access blocked, there are ways to circumvent the problem. People get creative.
When it comes to banning things, I'd have to say that this is the work of polititions at its finest. Its going to get ugly, but that is the way they like it.
As I understand, polititions are lawyers. Their friends are lawyers. Who benefits from stupid laws passed by polititions? Polititions! Even these bad ones are the experts in the field and will refer cases to friends.
When the internet exploded here in the USA, porn became controversial. A once tame internet with a few juicy pictures tucked away in the newsgroups were brought to public attention. The next thing I knew, porn was everywhere. It was popular. Every spectator trying to make a buck had to test the laws and put up a porno webpage. Porn was spammed. It was no longer hidden, but it would find you, and on a daily basis even if you just had email. All thanks to the religious and political nuts who brought this "evil" to our attention.
So, Australia is going to get a lot of porn. Most of it will be coming from within. Brace for it! You asked for it!
Thank you for providing the link. At the end of the article there are a few links that continue. Very good reading.
Rumors of vaporware, now that's even better! See how people all got worked up over this? Maybe it was leaked on purpose this way, or perhaps as you suggest, maybe someone just made it all up. I prefer to call it innovative marketing.
An M$-built window manager. Brrrr. If it was GPLed . . .
I don't envision Microsoft GPL'ing anything. It does not seem to be their style to actively develop in an open. Why would they budget their resources to a product that has no ties with monetary return when it comes to shrinked wrap sales? They could benefit by supporting GPL software, but I have never seen Microsoft as supporting software. Maybe someone else could relate to Microsoft support, but it escapes my experience.
I can't think of any announced ports that never occured...
Vaporware does not imply that it won't be done, but it describes a product that does not exist for some time.
For example, if evil company X promises product Y at Z date, you have 0 until Z. Not only that, W competitors will see that X in gearing up for Y and can steamroll their marketing projections for U. What this means is that U will get 0 and consumers get the shaft.
Its not cool to joke about bombing a company that has problems with quality. Its not very nice and a good way to get in heaps'o'trouble.
Put it in perspective by imagining one of your coworkers in the next cubicle laughing at great lengths about the company's new firearms policy. Would it make you uneasy?
If your software really is useful, I'd speculate that you would have more long-term success with open-sourced software than
anything else, and that the GPL would be most successful of all.
If someone wants code to be looked at, I'm sure people who enjoy coding prefer a code base that can be freely added to and borrowed from on a whim. If an application proves useful and I know it is GPL, I might be inclined to see the intimate details of how it works and learn something from the author. While I'm at it, I might catch a few bugs and help add something useful myself.
On the other hand, if the source code of a bloated operating system were available under a restrictive license, I would not even want to waste my time or contaminate my thinking with it. I would want to "clean room" myself away and deny ever seeing it.
I have nightmares of being chased by Bill Gates with reams of Windows source code. "Here, touch it!"
Some anonymous poster described this effect to me:
"It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the Beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion."
So what we have here is someone experienced in tilting back cold refreshing 16oz Jolt Cola Classics (tm) and discovered the New Improved Jolt. When the fingers hit the keyboard, the once steady hands turned into convultions of mouse clicking like behavior.
I just took a visit to LinuxMall and do not ever remember their pages quite so huge! Its mighty busy and could be distracting if I just wanted to order something. Are they trying to be a portal or something?
You can donate more than just the slotted $5 by increasing the quantity multiplier. When I ordered the cheap Debian cd, I put a good number in the donation box.
The term "weblog" has for a long time meant to me as a web log. When I see a web page called a web log, it makes me cringe.
Here is a web log.
Here is a web page.
Who coined the term "weblog" and why? What does it log?
Speaking about navel gazing, there was a poll that surveyed (as a joke) how many times one cleaned out his/her/it navel: daily, weekly, monthly, never?
Navels are the point where the lifeblood to a new entity is sourced. So I guess this term would come from the fact that some navels never have the fuzz cleaned out of them. Or more concisely, that it would be a topic that is raw, inclomplete, and kind of undeveloped. On the other hand, why would shiny rings adorning the navel be attractive?
Oh hell, I don't know. Someone help me attempt to understand this term. Perhaps navel gazing is a cliche. A passing fad, but with tshirts and summertime, maybe not.
In 20 years, that reel will be worth less than a pile of dog poopoo.
Lucas has used special degrading film for his trailer, and has done it as well for those reels.
Unless freezing causes the film structure to crack or crystalize in an undesired way, chemical reactions can be negligible for decades. Nothing quite like a fresh film out of a hibernation time capsule. Figure your costs of freezing, about an average of 60 watts to keep the freezer going, 8 cents per kilowatt hour, per month, per 20 years. That would be about $829.44. Would it be worth it?
(considering if you not defrost it as to let water condense all over it!)
Here is a link you might be looking for. It summarizes some, but not all I have heard, of the dirty tricks.
I have had issues with Netscape 4.x being stable before, but have had no problems with it in the Redhat 6.0 distro. The problem with severe memory leaks and random crashing and on certain pages appears to have vanished. I only restarted netscape a few days ago when I accidently killed the window with Alt-W (I frequently have dozens of browser windows open.)
/etc or /home or whatever back to the parent company to see what competitor's products I have. Its a matter of trust and Microsoft does not have it. Not only that, I don't want to get comfortable with such a product to only get "locked in" to the standards they promote. Active-X? No Thanks!
Would I test Microsoft's browser? No Thanks, I would never trust a code base like that on my computer. I don't want something reading my
Regardless of my lack of problems, I hope to have a GPL'd browser soon. It would be nice to swap code with a browser and build something on a whim.
Humor? How far would you go to consider something humorous? Humor is insight of a different character.
Well, what do you think about MEEPT!!
(Whatever happened to that zany character? The sheer nonsense, the humorous insight, the wacked out prose of the glorious meept really had a personality.)