You're right, but where I come from, then and than sound as different as bin/ban, fin/fan, and people still get it wrong. This is on the list of "Common Errors in English" ( http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html )
The great part about jabber is that, assuming that they will connect to other servers (the s2s compenont of jabberd), they don't have to have gateways/transports... You can connect through any transport on the jabber network:)
If the hams cannot operate under normal circumstances, then we will not be prepared to operate when we are needed.
Also, some of the critical work done by hams is done when a disaster is threatening, not only after it strikes. Listen to the ham bands during a tornado watch and you may hear a local national weather service representitive conducting a weather net. Many ham operators are trained weather spotters and act as the eyes and ears of the nws when bad weather threatens. A good TV meteorologist is monitoring these nets so they can break into programming to give you the very latest reports.
could potentially have enabled the forces of computing darkness to obtain the username and password of every registered SpreadFirefox user, as well as any other optional information that users may have provided
I argued that this should be a prime reason for OpenID or some other distributed authentication system should start being used on the web. That way, you never have to give any unnecessary sensitive information to any website.
This is partly true... but after running SuSE for some time. It got to the point that yast didn't do everything I needed it to do. So, I had to go behind its back, making it not only unneeded, but also troublesome. I've decided that I want (learn) to do things myself... so after I build my new machine, I'm gonna try out gentoo.
Disclaimer: I am in no way calling myself a system administrator. I'm a programmer, but enjoy learning what I can about system administration.
My parents had AOL for years. I finally got them onto road runner (as a Christmas gift:). They're still paying $4.00/month, the cheapest AOL service plan, so they can keep their aol address, which they get through imap/smtp. Does this mean that they'll be able to finally drop the aol plan completely and keep their free address? Even so, they wouldn't be able to use Thunderbird to check it anymore.:(
If we're not forgetting things... let's not forget History of the World: Part I. So many easy-to-miss subtleties that leave you laughing (and quote) for quite some time.
Apparently, I have different taste than most people around here... I like all of Mel's movies that I've seen. Some better than others, but they're all good to me.
But you can use 'transports' (aka gateways) on jabber servers other than the one you are registered with... eg- I use jabber.org as my primary jabber server, but connect to aim, msn, y! and icq through myjabber.net and irc through jabber.org.uk (it's the only one I've found that actually works). In other words, you don't have to use google's transports (they probably wouldn't have them anyway) to connect to the other services.
When I moved into my new house (brand new, no connection to POTS) I decide to go cable and VoIP. I haven't turned back. It saved me a ton to not have bellsouth come out to connect my house, and it's saving me some monthly. It's so cool that I used to get internet access over a phone line, and not get phone service over the internet. How the tables have turned:)
Actually, I'm a subscriber to packet8's voip service, and they say that the only connection that the box has is an outbound connection back to packet8. So to receive a call, it has to be coming from packet8's system.
I'm using Packet8's VoIP service. I get unlimited calling anywhere in US or Canada for under $20/month. I have a UPS that powers my Cable modem, router, VoIP box, and cordless phone base. Short Power outage are no problem, I have a cell phone that would come in handy for longer ones. The 911 issue is valid, but I have local fire/police numbers on speeddial. Packet8 has 911 service is some areas, but not mine yet. I have absolutely no complaints so far. The quality is roughly the same as a cell phone, there is a little bit of a delay, but I can live with that for the price. I wouldn't say that it's to a point that everyone should switch to VoIP for a primary phone line, but I'll be sticking with it for the time being.
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Sure, it might be good for you... but what about me? I'm the violinist!
I have a spamgourmet address for my domain's contact email. In about a year, I have only receeived two emails on that account. I think both were from my registrar, and were somewhat legit (although they probably got deleted). While I still get tons of spam, I haven't recieved much due to my whois record.
it is a lot more credible than a 2000 year old book that has been translated so many times it can't be accurate.
I assume you are referring to the Bible? If so, most of it is much older than 2,000 years (The old testament, which describes creation and early man). Most modern English translations come directly from the original Hebrew and Greek (and others); NIV and NKJV translations make use of manuscripts found more recently than the original King James translation. The Jewish tradition of maticulous copying of the Tanach has kept it very accurate through the generations. So, I put my faith in that.
I say guh-nwhatever. The GNU website says 'GNU is a recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''; it is pronounced "guh-NEW".' I think that the pronounciation of the "silent" G empasizes that it is free software. So, to me, gnome, gnutella and the likes all have pronounced G's.
Just my last two cents.
My computer is currently sitting on my dresser. There is no room for a conventional mouse. I have a logitech internet wireless keyboard and wireless trackball. The trackball works gret sitting in my lap, or on my bed, or in my left hand, no need for a surface. The is really handy, and kind of doubt that I would like this gyro mouse an better. My trackball's batteries last for months. I don't experience any of the downfalls of cordless pointeing devices mentioned in the article. I'll stick to this for now.
lynx -source prints the source of the document, lynx -dump strips html tags, replaces links with numbered references whose uri's are listed at the bottom.
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You're right, but where I come from, then and than sound as different as bin/ban, fin/fan, and people still get it wrong. This is on the list of "Common Errors in English" ( http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html )
I wanted to get a recording, but decided to take that lame screen shot instead :) Could you post it somewhere so we can hear it?
Screenshot: http://flickr.com/photos/jk3us/79978824/
How is it that no one has mentioned distributed identity protocols, such as Open ID? That would solve the problem for the web, at least.
The great part about jabber is that, assuming that they will connect to other servers (the s2s compenont of jabberd), they don't have to have gateways/transports... You can connect through any transport on the jabber network :)
If the hams cannot operate under normal circumstances, then we will not be prepared to operate when we are needed. Also, some of the critical work done by hams is done when a disaster is threatening, not only after it strikes. Listen to the ham bands during a tornado watch and you may hear a local national weather service representitive conducting a weather net. Many ham operators are trained weather spotters and act as the eyes and ears of the nws when bad weather threatens. A good TV meteorologist is monitoring these nets so they can break into programming to give you the very latest reports.
AJAX makes an HTTP request (using Javascript) which returns XML.
One more clarification... The HTTP request does not even have to return xml, it can return plain text, or html. anything, really...
could potentially have enabled the forces of computing darkness to obtain the username and password of every registered SpreadFirefox user, as well as any other optional information that users may have provided
I argued that this should be a prime reason for OpenID or some other distributed authentication system should start being used on the web. That way, you never have to give any unnecessary sensitive information to any website.
I blogged about this.
This is partly true... but after running SuSE for some time. It got to the point that yast didn't do everything I needed it to do. So, I had to go behind its back, making it not only unneeded, but also troublesome. I've decided that I want (learn) to do things myself... so after I build my new machine, I'm gonna try out gentoo.
Disclaimer: I am in no way calling myself a system administrator. I'm a programmer, but enjoy learning what I can about system administration.
My parents had AOL for years. I finally got them onto road runner (as a Christmas gift :). They're still paying $4.00/month, the cheapest AOL service plan, so they can keep their aol address, which they get through imap/smtp. Does this mean that they'll be able to finally drop the aol plan completely and keep their free address? Even so, they wouldn't be able to use Thunderbird to check it anymore. :(
If we're not forgetting things... let's not forget History of the World: Part I. So many easy-to-miss subtleties that leave you laughing (and quote) for quite some time. Apparently, I have different taste than most people around here... I like all of Mel's movies that I've seen. Some better than others, but they're all good to me.
Just in case the coral site goes down... here's a link to the coral cache:
http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu.nyud.net:8090/coral/
But you can use 'transports' (aka gateways) on jabber servers other than the one you are registered with... eg- I use jabber.org as my primary jabber server, but connect to aim, msn, y! and icq through myjabber.net and irc through jabber.org.uk (it's the only one I've found that actually works). In other words, you don't have to use google's transports (they probably wouldn't have them anyway) to connect to the other services.
When I moved into my new house (brand new, no connection to POTS) I decide to go cable and VoIP. I haven't turned back. It saved me a ton to not have bellsouth come out to connect my house, and it's saving me some monthly. It's so cool that I used to get internet access over a phone line, and not get phone service over the internet. How the tables have turned :)
Actually, I'm a subscriber to packet8's voip service, and they say that the only connection that the box has is an outbound connection back to packet8. So to receive a call, it has to be coming from packet8's system.
I'm using Packet8's VoIP service. I get unlimited calling anywhere in US or Canada for under $20/month. I have a UPS that powers my Cable modem, router, VoIP box, and cordless phone base. Short Power outage are no problem, I have a cell phone that would come in handy for longer ones. The 911 issue is valid, but I have local fire/police numbers on speeddial. Packet8 has 911 service is some areas, but not mine yet. I have absolutely no complaints so far. The quality is roughly the same as a cell phone, there is a little bit of a delay, but I can live with that for the price. I wouldn't say that it's to a point that everyone should switch to VoIP for a primary phone line, but I'll be sticking with it for the time being.
Sure, it might be good for you... but what about me? I'm the violinist!
I have a spamgourmet address for my domain's contact email. In about a year, I have only receeived two emails on that account. I think both were from my registrar, and were somewhat legit (although they probably got deleted). While I still get tons of spam, I haven't recieved much due to my whois record.
it is a lot more credible than a 2000 year old book that has been translated so many times it can't be accurate. I assume you are referring to the Bible? If so, most of it is much older than 2,000 years (The old testament, which describes creation and early man). Most modern English translations come directly from the original Hebrew and Greek (and others); NIV and NKJV translations make use of manuscripts found more recently than the original King James translation. The Jewish tradition of maticulous copying of the Tanach has kept it very accurate through the generations. So, I put my faith in that.
I say guh-nwhatever. The GNU website says 'GNU is a recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix''; it is pronounced "guh-NEW".' I think that the pronounciation of the "silent" G empasizes that it is free software. So, to me, gnome, gnutella and the likes all have pronounced G's.
Just my last two cents.
"...why are they having so many problems finding women?"
Geeks having problems finding women? You must be joking.
It comes from C.S Lewis's "Mere Christianity." Great book. I highly recommend it. Have a great day!
My computer is currently sitting on my dresser. There is no room for a conventional mouse. I have a logitech internet wireless keyboard and wireless trackball. The trackball works gret sitting in my lap, or on my bed, or in my left hand, no need for a surface. The is really handy, and kind of doubt that I would like this gyro mouse an better. My trackball's batteries last for months. I don't experience any of the downfalls of cordless pointeing devices mentioned in the article. I'll stick to this for now.
lynx -source prints the source of the document, lynx -dump strips html tags, replaces links with numbered references whose uri's are listed at the bottom.