the support sucks and in recent months I've had outages lasting from 6 hours to 3 days.
Really? Where are you?
I'm in Edmonton, and I've never had anything but stellar service from them - as in they've provided the absolute best customer service of any provider I've dealt with (and I deal with quite a few at work.) Their staff are always helpful, they don't talk down to me, and always give me the benefit of the doubt. (Contrasted with Telus, for example, who always believe that it's the customer's problem, even if I can prove it's not.)
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nobody's going to spend money for zero return.
Which is entirely beside the point.
The point is even with zero return, people will still spend money if they think the return will be non-zero.
And you know why they'll think that spam has positive return? because they see spam, and reason 'the other guys wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't making them money.'
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SOMEBODY is buying penis enlargers and breast kits, otherwise nobody would bother sending out such spam in the first place.
OB Simpsons quote:
"That's specious reasoning, dad. That's like saying that this rock keeps tigers away."
"Really? How does it work?"
"It doesn't! It's just a rock! But you don't see any tigers around do you?"
----- Even if nobody buys it, spam will still exist, because spammers think exactly like you do..
100% positive. I double checked it, because that's what most of the posts I found said. I even tried renicing it 0 anyway, just to make sure.
Many Linux distros set X to nice -10
Slackware doesn't. Default X nice level on Slackware is 0.
As I said, it could be a network issue - the 2.6.4 changelog mentions fixes for my network card. (I realized after I read that all of the media I tried came from the network.)
Looking through the 2.6.4 changelog, it looks like there were problems with 2.6.3's e100 driver (which I have.) As my machine uses the network heavily (I've got about a dozen NFS mounts) this could be the reason that I was experiencing problems.
I don't even know of anyone running 2.4 anymore actually. I mean, why not upgrade?
I finally got around to compiling 2.6.3 last night; ran into some issues.
its much more responsive than 2.4 for desktop use
The desktop is definitely more responsive, but (at least for me) at the expense of everything else. MPlayer, xmms, and anything that's remotely timing-intensive is unusable (xmms actually skips while playing MP3s, and Mplayer prints the message "Your computer is TOO SLOW to play this file" when playing anything I've got. Note that everything works fine under 2.4.)
I went through the various mailing lists looking for suggestions, with no luck; every suggestion is OK (checked drive DMA, kernel settings, X nice level, etc.) - interestingly enough, one post I read said to try glxgears.. I did, and it runs better under 2.6 - constant frame rate, regardless of what else I'm doing, whereas in 2.4, even moving the mouse drops the frame rate.)
So it's back to 2.4 for me. I'll probably try 2.6.4, to see if the situation has improved, but for the mean time, I'll stick with 2.4.
It doesn't eliminate spam but it should help cut it down
Wrong. It doesn't cut down on spam at all. In fact, by overriding effective state legislation (like California's), it can actually increase spam.
without trampling on free speach.
*sigh* I've got news for you: There is NO anti-spam legislation that could trample on free 'speach'.
Freedom of Speech is the right to say whatever you want. It is NOT the right to force people to listen to you, nor is it the right to force people to pay for you to speak.
Spam is theft. There is _NO_ way that it can possibly be construed as 'frea speach' (nobody is telling spammers they can't say whatever they hell they want - we're saying that they have to pay for it themselves.)
If you believe differently, then you must also believe that I have the right to scream obscenities into your bedroom window with a bullhorn while you're sleeping. Because after all, if you try to stop me, you'd trampling on my right to 'frea speach'.
I just got my mother a laptop for her birthday. Set up a restricted account for her, and install mozilla, adaware, and (so that I can remotely administer it) VNC.
She's more than happy with it. It does what she wants, and she can't break it. If she needs it to do more (which I doubt she ever will), I can VNC in to install whatever she needs.
since "social skills" appear to involve mocking people that are different to you, you're better off without them
Looks like someone has a case of sour grapes.
Social skills involve postively interacting with other people. For some social groups (evidently the only type you've been witness to) this can mean criticizing those outside the group; but not all are like this, and social skills do not only involve large groups.
Just teach the kid how to be polite
Which is a social skill.
We need social skills to go through life. I've dealt with physical, as well as social handicaps, and I can assure you that social handicaps were the hardest to overcome. Ignoring them, or pretending that social skills are not necessary will only ensure that the child is unhappy for the rest of his life.
if they were like everyone else they wouldn't be gifted.
Yes, but just because they're gifted doesn't mean that they have to be social outcasts.
He was a nobody until a PBS series called This Old House came along in 1979. He was hired as the host of that show. His job duties there were to read the opening and closing sequence lines, and to interview the experts who really did know what they were doing. He was not one of those experts, he was just asked questions to the experts.
Oh my god! You mean something on television isn't what it seemed?!?!?!
We have to let people know this. Shout it from the rooftops people! Make sure everybody you see knows that TV isn't real.
This was several years ago - before DHCP. As sysadmin, I kept the list of IP addresses assigned to the computers.
Newbie tech, right out of school (I'll call him 'D.') comes up to me, while I'm in the middle of something.. he says "I'm working on the machine in shipping, and I need its' IP address."
I say "no problem", point to a piece of paper, and say "they're all on that piece of paper". He takes the piece of paper, copies down the number, and goes away.
A few minutes later, he comes back, and says "that must be wrong - it tells me that it's in use."
I tell him "that's weird - I'll come take a look at it in a few minutes."
So I finish what I'm working on, and go to shipping.. I ask "D. said there was a problem with your machine." They shrug, and said "it's working OK right now." Just to be sure, I take a look at it, and the IP address is correct, and the machine is working fine, so I go back to my desk.
Two hours later, D. comes back to my desk and asks if I'm done yet.. I tell him I went to the shipping computer, and it was working fine.
He tells me "No, I'm at my bench, setting up a new system for them, and when I enter the IP address and connect to the network, it tells me that the IP address is in use."
I guess he skipped the class where they talked about IP addresses having to be unique.
He was given the privilege of carrying the banner of the Macomb County Sheriff's department
WTF?!?!?
Does this clown think that the telco should provide free service, because it's a 'privilege' to give something away that you normally charge for? Does the Sherrif work for free because it's a 'privilege' to wear a badge?
I'm sure this prosecutor works for free too - just for the 'privilege' of representing the county, right?
It's horrible for website navigation and it's pitiful for games.
You may be surprised to learn that the web is more than navigation and games.
How about vector-based animation, for instructional purposes. The last website I did, the client required animations, to show visitors how to do some things. Streaming video would have been huge, but the flash-based equivalent was under 100K. There were text-based instructions, and the flash-animation provided a visual representation for people who might have a hard time visualizing on their own.
Flash fills a niche, just because people use it to do things outside of this niche doesn't mean that it isn't there.
how long has it been since the Linux Kernel 1.9 has been supported/updated?
Well, since 1.9 was a develpment version, the answer is that it's still being maintained, supported, and updated. 2.0.40 was released a couple of weeks ago.
For GPL software, you may f.ex. not redistribute binaries without source.
I think you're mistaken on this part.
You most certainly can distribute binaries of GPL'ed software, without including source, as long as you include an offer to provide the source if asked (it says other things, this is the basic gist of it, though.)
This is obviously a restriction of your freedom.
No, actually it's not. Copyright law imposes the restriction of copying/distribution, not the GPL.
The GPL grants you freedom, by saying that you are allowed to distribute someone else's copyrighted work, as long as you include with it the promise of source (and other things.)
Speaking as someone who has had cats (I had my last one since he was a kitten, he passed away last spring at 16 years old) I can say you're full of it.
The notion that the cat will learn "right" or "wrong," "good" or "bad" behavior is wishful thinking at best.
No, it's not. Cats are social creatures, just like dogs - just because they display their sociality in different manner than dogs, or that some cat owners decide to reward thier cat's dominant behaviour (which is misinterpreted as anti-social tendencies), doesn't mean that the social instincts are not there.
Everything in your post shows that you are the type of person who rewards your cat for displaying dominant behaviour, and allows the cat to be dominant. Many people with small dogs frequently have the same problems, typically because they tend to 'baby' smaller animals.
This idea applies to dogs just fine, since they're more likely to see people as some kind of an authority figure
This is complete bullshit. It's just as easy to have an improperly trained dog as an improperly trained cat. I see it all the time - especially with small dogs.
Cats however will think of you as an equal if you're lucky and worthy, and as a contemptible servant to be rewarded, punished and tolerated as the cat sees fit if you're not lucky.
Luck has nothing to do with it. In both of the cases you mention, you're simply not establishing dominance, and so the animal (seeing no leader present) decides to become the leader.
This person's cat will be chewing on cables until chewing on cables ceases to entertain it, and not before.
Again, only if he allows the cat to be dominant.
Dogs want to make master happy and will respond to discipline
First, dogs only want to make 'master' happy if the master properly enforces his/her role as pack leader.
Second, discipline is not the way to cure any animal (dog or cat) of unacceptable behavior. A good trainer will use other methods.
No, his dog was just immune to it. Just like people, dogs are individuals - and just as there are people who like spicy foods, some people don't.
As a puppy, our border collie would chew on anything.. we tried a number of commercial solutions (including bitter apple), as well as hot sauce (habanero powder) The dog loved it - he would suck the pepper off, then start chewing.
We accidentally came across a solution as I was putting rub a5-35 on my legs after a workout.. the dog came over to see what I was doing (sniffing, as dogs do), got within an inch of my leg, and let out a howl I'll never forget..
After that, a dab of the stuff on anything we didn't want chewed cured him from ever wanting to put his face near it.
I could chmod my whatever.txt to +x and try it!! It will actually attempt to run that way!
If someone sends you a file, they can't chmod it simply by tacking a '.exe' on the end. That's the whole damn point.
Not smart.
Wrong - it's very smart. The user explicitly told the OS that he wanted to execute the file, even though it's not an executable. Simply relying on the filename is not smart.
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a lot of it comes off American shores..
Define "a lot".
Most spam comes from INSIDE the US, not outside.
the support sucks and in recent months I've had outages lasting from 6 hours to 3 days.
Really? Where are you?
I'm in Edmonton, and I've never had anything but stellar service from them - as in they've provided the absolute best customer service of any provider I've dealt with (and I deal with quite a few at work.) Their staff are always helpful, they don't talk down to me, and always give me the benefit of the doubt. (Contrasted with Telus, for example, who always believe that it's the customer's problem, even if I can prove it's not.)
nobody's going to spend money for zero return.
Which is entirely beside the point.
The point is even with zero return, people will still spend money if they think the return will be non-zero.
And you know why they'll think that spam has positive return? because they see spam, and reason 'the other guys wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't making them money.'
SOMEBODY is buying penis enlargers and breast kits, otherwise nobody would bother sending out such spam in the first place.
OB Simpsons quote:
"That's specious reasoning, dad. That's like saying that this rock keeps tigers away."
"Really? How does it work?"
"It doesn't! It's just a rock! But you don't see any tigers around do you?"
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Even if nobody buys it, spam will still exist, because spammers think exactly like you do..
do you believe that AES has some backdoor that lets the US military decrypt your private bits?
If it does, my wife will be pretty upset - she believes she's the only one with access to my private bits.
If it's true, the US military better look out - never underestimate the power of a jealous woman with PMS.
Are you sure about the X nice level?
100% positive. I double checked it, because that's what most of the posts I found said. I even tried renicing it 0 anyway, just to make sure.
Many Linux distros set X to nice -10
Slackware doesn't. Default X nice level on Slackware is 0.
As I said, it could be a network issue - the 2.6.4 changelog mentions fixes for my network card. (I realized after I read that all of the media I tried came from the network.)
Thanks for your help, though.
Looking through the 2.6.4 changelog, it looks like there were problems with 2.6.3's e100 driver (which I have.) As my machine uses the network heavily (I've got about a dozen NFS mounts) this could be the reason that I was experiencing problems.
I don't even know of anyone running 2.4 anymore actually. I mean, why not upgrade?
I finally got around to compiling 2.6.3 last night; ran into some issues.
its much more responsive than 2.4 for desktop use
The desktop is definitely more responsive, but (at least for me) at the expense of everything else. MPlayer, xmms, and anything that's remotely timing-intensive is unusable (xmms actually skips while playing MP3s, and Mplayer prints the message "Your computer is TOO SLOW to play this file" when playing anything I've got. Note that everything works fine under 2.4.)
I went through the various mailing lists looking for suggestions, with no luck; every suggestion is OK (checked drive DMA, kernel settings, X nice level, etc.) - interestingly enough, one post I read said to try glxgears.. I did, and it runs better under 2.6 - constant frame rate, regardless of what else I'm doing, whereas in 2.4, even moving the mouse drops the frame rate.)
So it's back to 2.4 for me. I'll probably try 2.6.4, to see if the situation has improved, but for the mean time, I'll stick with 2.4.
It doesn't eliminate spam but it should help cut it down
Wrong. It doesn't cut down on spam at all. In fact, by overriding effective state legislation (like California's), it can actually increase spam.
without trampling on free speach.
*sigh* I've got news for you: There is NO anti-spam legislation that could trample on free 'speach'.
Freedom of Speech is the right to say whatever you want. It is NOT the right to force people to listen to you, nor is it the right to force people to pay for you to speak.
Spam is theft. There is _NO_ way that it can possibly be construed as 'frea speach' (nobody is telling spammers they can't say whatever they hell they want - we're saying that they have to pay for it themselves.)
If you believe differently, then you must also believe that I have the right to scream obscenities into your bedroom window with a bullhorn while you're sleeping. Because after all, if you try to stop me, you'd trampling on my right to 'frea speach'.
In image technology, RLL is a compression technique. (See the old MacPaint format; I think that BMPs use the same technique.)
No, that would still be RLE. It stands for "Run Length Encoding". (See here.
It's so called because it compresses runs of identical bytes into (typically) 2-byte values (the original value, and the length of the run.)
I just got my mother a laptop for her birthday. Set up a restricted account for her, and install mozilla, adaware, and (so that I can remotely administer it) VNC.
She's more than happy with it. It does what she wants, and she can't break it. If she needs it to do more (which I doubt she ever will), I can VNC in to install whatever she needs.
since "social skills" appear to involve mocking people that are different to you, you're better off without them
Looks like someone has a case of sour grapes.
Social skills involve postively interacting with other people. For some social groups (evidently the only type you've been witness to) this can mean criticizing those outside the group; but not all are like this, and social skills do not only involve large groups.
Just teach the kid how to be polite
Which is a social skill.
We need social skills to go through life. I've dealt with physical, as well as social handicaps, and I can assure you that social handicaps were the hardest to overcome. Ignoring them, or pretending that social skills are not necessary will only ensure that the child is unhappy for the rest of his life.
if they were like everyone else they wouldn't be gifted.
Yes, but just because they're gifted doesn't mean that they have to be social outcasts.
He was a nobody until a PBS series called This Old House came along in 1979. He was hired as the host of that show. His job duties there were to read the opening and closing sequence lines, and to interview the experts who really did know what they were doing. He was not one of those experts, he was just asked questions to the experts.
Oh my god! You mean something on television isn't what it seemed?!?!?!
We have to let people know this. Shout it from the rooftops people! Make sure everybody you see knows that TV isn't real.
This was several years ago - before DHCP. As sysadmin, I kept the list of IP addresses assigned to the computers.
Newbie tech, right out of school (I'll call him 'D.') comes up to me, while I'm in the middle of something.. he says "I'm working on the machine in shipping, and I need its' IP address."
I say "no problem", point to a piece of paper, and say "they're all on that piece of paper". He takes the piece of paper, copies down the number, and goes away.
A few minutes later, he comes back, and says "that must be wrong - it tells me that it's in use."
I tell him "that's weird - I'll come take a look at it in a few minutes."
So I finish what I'm working on, and go to shipping.. I ask "D. said there was a problem with your machine." They shrug, and said "it's working OK right now." Just to be sure, I take a look at it, and the IP address is correct, and the machine is working fine, so I go back to my desk.
Two hours later, D. comes back to my desk and asks if I'm done yet.. I tell him I went to the shipping computer, and it was working fine.
He tells me "No, I'm at my bench, setting up a new system for them, and when I enter the IP address and connect to the network, it tells me that the IP address is in use."
I guess he skipped the class where they talked about IP addresses having to be unique.
He was given the privilege of carrying the banner of the Macomb County Sheriff's department
WTF?!?!?
Does this clown think that the telco should provide free service, because it's a 'privilege' to give something away that you normally charge for? Does the Sherrif work for free because it's a 'privilege' to wear a badge?
I'm sure this prosecutor works for free too - just for the 'privilege' of representing the county, right?
What an ass.
It's horrible for website navigation and it's pitiful for games.
You may be surprised to learn that the web is more than navigation and games.
How about vector-based animation, for instructional purposes. The last website I did, the client required animations, to show visitors how to do some things. Streaming video would have been huge, but the flash-based equivalent was under 100K. There were text-based instructions, and the flash-animation provided a visual representation for people who might have a hard time visualizing on their own.
Flash fills a niche, just because people use it to do things outside of this niche doesn't mean that it isn't there.
how long has it been since the Linux Kernel 1.9 has been supported/updated?
Well, since 1.9 was a develpment version, the answer is that it's still being maintained, supported, and updated. 2.0.40 was released a couple of weeks ago.
Any thoughts?
Well, if we use SCO's logic, it must be someone from the SCO community.
So, which of McBride, Sontag, Stowell, Didio, or Lyons is it?
For GPL software, you may f.ex. not redistribute binaries without source.
I think you're mistaken on this part.
You most certainly can distribute binaries of GPL'ed software, without including source, as long as you include an offer to provide the source if asked (it says other things, this is the basic gist of it, though.)
This is obviously a restriction of your freedom.
No, actually it's not. Copyright law imposes the restriction of copying/distribution, not the GPL.
The GPL grants you freedom, by saying that you are allowed to distribute someone else's copyrighted work, as long as you include with it the promise of source (and other things.)
One you missed.
It's really quite funny.
It's not a troll.
Of course it's a troll.
The author is asking whether GIMP is doing things that we don't see in commercial tools. I'm interested in this, too.
Like what, exactly? What features are missing from Photoshop that you'd like to see in Gimp, and when did you discuss them with the developers?
Why does this quote bring that one to mind?
:o)
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I guess you don't have a cat.
Speaking as someone who has had cats (I had my last one since he was a kitten, he passed away last spring at 16 years old) I can say you're full of it.
The notion that the cat will learn "right" or "wrong," "good" or "bad" behavior is wishful thinking at best.
No, it's not. Cats are social creatures, just like dogs - just because they display their sociality in different manner than dogs, or that some cat owners decide to reward thier cat's dominant behaviour (which is misinterpreted as anti-social tendencies), doesn't mean that the social instincts are not there.
Everything in your post shows that you are the type of person who rewards your cat for displaying dominant behaviour, and allows the cat to be dominant. Many people with small dogs frequently have the same problems, typically because they tend to 'baby' smaller animals.
This idea applies to dogs just fine, since they're more likely to see people as some kind of an authority figure
This is complete bullshit. It's just as easy to have an improperly trained dog as an improperly trained cat. I see it all the time - especially with small dogs.
Cats however will think of you as an equal if you're lucky and worthy, and as a contemptible servant to be rewarded, punished and tolerated as the cat sees fit if you're not lucky.
Luck has nothing to do with it. In both of the cases you mention, you're simply not establishing dominance, and so the animal (seeing no leader present) decides to become the leader.
This person's cat will be chewing on cables until chewing on cables ceases to entertain it, and not before.
Again, only if he allows the cat to be dominant.
Dogs want to make master happy and will respond to discipline
First, dogs only want to make 'master' happy if the master properly enforces his/her role as pack leader.
Second, discipline is not the way to cure any animal (dog or cat) of unacceptable behavior. A good trainer will use other methods.
the sauce wasn't hot enough
No, his dog was just immune to it. Just like people, dogs are individuals - and just as there are people who like spicy foods, some people don't.
As a puppy, our border collie would chew on anything.. we tried a number of commercial solutions (including bitter apple), as well as hot sauce (habanero powder) The dog loved it - he would suck the pepper off, then start chewing.
We accidentally came across a solution as I was putting rub a5-35 on my legs after a workout.. the dog came over to see what I was doing (sniffing, as dogs do), got within an inch of my leg, and let out a howl I'll never forget..
After that, a dab of the stuff on anything we didn't want chewed cured him from ever wanting to put his face near it.
I could chmod my whatever.txt to +x and try it!! It will actually attempt to run that way!
If someone sends you a file, they can't chmod it simply by tacking a '.exe' on the end. That's the whole damn point.
Not smart.
Wrong - it's very smart. The user explicitly told the OS that he wanted to execute the file, even though it's not an executable. Simply relying on the filename is not smart.