In Hong Kong, Park and Shop will let you order over the internet and it's free delivery if you order over a certain amount (hkd 400. about usd 50). It's great for ordering a ton of booze for parties, large bags of rice, etc. I don't think I'd trust the box boy in the supermarket to pick out decent fruit and vegetable or meat for me.
You know, what Linux (and unix) really needs is not a *clone* of Outlook, but an *alternative* to Outlook. Just look at email. Under *nix, your email is kept in a bunch of text files in a more or less standard location. Just about any email program can be used, from big PINE down to little/bin/mail or whatever takes your fancy. Why isn't there a similar standard for a calendar? Have a.calendar file in ~/, accessible to other users in the style of finger.
i.e. Is billg available for a meeting at 0900on Monday?
$fingercal billg@microsoft.com?date=20011112&time=0900&tz=utc >fingercal results
>billg is free at the requested time.
If they ever film Cryptonomicon, the Captain Crunch scene will have to be thrown away.
Repeatedly.
Randy's geekness was shown much more in the other scenes (in the prison, and dividing up the furniture).
If you run with the case open, you probably don't have the continuous airflow across the board from the case fans. Try closing the case and see if the ambient temp goes down. 55degC sounds way hot to me - my box runs at 33 degC, 29degC ambient. It's not an athlon, though.
You do wonder if they listen to the songs they want to use. 'Start me up' has the line 'You make a grown man cry' which is amazingly appropriate for Win95.
'End of the World' has:
'listen to yourself churn' - Not enough RAM
'dummy serve your own needs' - very simple wwebserving, obviously.
'off me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline' - what MS want their customers to do.
'a tourmament, a tournament, a tournament of lies' - that'd be the press campaign.
Well, direct3d on win2k looks fine to me. It's 8.0a on Win2k, what is it on XP?
dave
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Yeah, I'll explain. You can't seem to express yourself without personal abuse and swearing. I wondered if you had some medical condition which made you subject to uncontrollable impulses but it appears you're just like that anyway.
I'm glad, though, because it looks as if, on your first postings to slashdot, you karma has been chopped down to minus a lot.
yours very sincerely,
dave.
ps. I know I'll lose karma for this, I lost it for my first comment, but someone has to inform the lusers what they're doing wrong.
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>Isn't this against RMS's GNU/Everything treatise? He claims that the OS is Linux, but
>the distribution should be GNU/Linux. Here the OS itself is called GNU/Linux...
>Humm...
Not quite right. The Kernel is Linux, the OS is GNU/Linux and the distro is whatever the distro people call it (sid, for Debian, for example).
dave
ps: lameness filter? Just for having *THREE* quote characters at the top there?
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If you use the Microsoft Update pages, a little app will be placed on your system which checks for critical updates. Every now and then it'll start flashing in the system tray and a dialog box will prompt you to go to Windows Update. It's not as good as a weekly 'apt-get update' (or CVSUP for FreeBSDers) as it needs user control, but it's better than nothing. IIRC, the Windows Update page had this feature as far back as Win98.
Something which turns the background wallpaper red and a dialog box announcing that they have a virus would be good.
For revenge purposes, a self-executing archive which is a file containing one byte 10^12 times should compress nice and small but cause a few headaches when retrieved.
Of course, Win2k is *far* more stable than Win98 (*spit*). That's certainly a reason to go for it than stay with the old Win9x stuff. It's more secure too and it doesn't feel any slower on my old desktop than Win98 did.
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That format will sort correctly with a simple numerical sort, something which yyddMM won't do.
dave
Does he say which version of FreeBSD he used? I couldn't see it any references to it from browsing with lynx.
dave
In Hong Kong, Park and Shop will let you order over the internet and it's free delivery if you order over a certain amount (hkd 400. about usd 50). It's great for ordering a ton of booze for parties, large bags of rice, etc. I don't think I'd trust the box boy in the supermarket to pick out decent fruit and vegetable or meat for me.
dave
Sounds a bit like FreeBSD's Stable, Unstable, Release branches. Doesn't Debian work in a similar fashion?
dave
You know, what Linux (and unix) really needs is not a *clone* of Outlook, but an *alternative* to Outlook. Just look at email. Under *nix, your email is kept in a bunch of text files in a more or less standard location. Just about any email program can be used, from big PINE down to little /bin/mail or whatever takes your fancy. Why isn't there a similar standard for a calendar? Have a .calendar file in ~/, accessible to other users in the style of finger.
c
i.e. Is billg available for a meeting at 0900on Monday?
$fingercal billg@microsoft.com?date=20011112&time=0900&tz=ut
>fingercal results
>billg is free at the requested time.
dave
D'oh! Wrong link. Try http://handsonhowto.com/dodip.html instead. dave
Linux Dial on Demand and NAT:
Go to http://www.brasscannon.net/ and follow the links. It's really simple. Honest. dave
New mod options:
-1: Innacurate information
-2: Just plain Wrong
-3: Poster on Crack
dave
Improved New Coke ran on P4 Xeon's with Gigabit ethernet?
Chilled liquid processors. They do their own cooling. Neat.
dave
JRR Tolkien knew when to quit. The rest of the Tolkiens seem to want to publish every vague scribble and shopping list ever written by him.
dave "high our hearts and sharp our swords when we went to the market to get food for dinner"
If they ever film Cryptonomicon, the Captain Crunch scene will have to be thrown away.
Repeatedly.
Randy's geekness was shown much more in the other scenes (in the prison, and dividing up the furniture).
dave
There's a replacement for Xtree at http://www.ztree.com.
dave
The Find Files utility can search subdirectories, so it can do 'del *.foo /s'.
Me, I use cygwin:
c:\>rm -rf *.obj
dave
If you run with the case open, you probably don't have the continuous airflow across the board from the case fans. Try closing the case and see if the ambient temp goes down. 55degC sounds way hot to me - my box runs at 33 degC, 29degC ambient. It's not an athlon, though.
dave
You do wonder if they listen to the songs they want to use. 'Start me up' has the line 'You make a grown man cry' which is amazingly appropriate for Win95.
'End of the World' has:
'listen to yourself churn' - Not enough RAM
'dummy serve your own needs' - very simple wwebserving, obviously.
'off me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline' - what MS want their customers to do.
'a tourmament, a tournament, a tournament of lies' - that'd be the press campaign.
dave
"My name is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as Linux"
"My name is Bill Gates, and I pronounce WinXP as 'Respect My Authoritah!'"
dave
Well, direct3d on win2k looks fine to me. It's 8.0a on Win2k, what is it on XP?
dave
Yeah, I'll explain. You can't seem to express yourself without personal abuse and swearing. I wondered if you had some medical condition which made you subject to uncontrollable impulses but it appears you're just like that anyway.
I'm glad, though, because it looks as if, on your first postings to slashdot, you karma has been chopped down to minus a lot.
yours very sincerely,
dave.
ps. I know I'll lose karma for this, I lost it for my first comment, but someone has to inform the lusers what they're doing wrong.
Do you have Tourette's disease or something?
dave
>Isn't this against RMS's GNU/Everything treatise? He claims that the OS is Linux, but
>the distribution should be GNU/Linux. Here the OS itself is called GNU/Linux...
>Humm...
Not quite right. The Kernel is Linux, the OS is GNU/Linux and the distro is whatever the distro people call it (sid, for Debian, for example).
dave
ps: lameness filter? Just for having *THREE* quote characters at the top there?
If you use the Microsoft Update pages, a little app will be placed on your system which checks for critical updates. Every now and then it'll start flashing in the system tray and a dialog box will prompt you to go to Windows Update. It's not as good as a weekly 'apt-get update' (or CVSUP for FreeBSDers) as it needs user control, but it's better than nothing. IIRC, the Windows Update page had this feature as far back as Win98.
dave
"I'm Brian"
"No, I'm Brian!"
"I'm Brian and so's my wife!"
Something which turns the background wallpaper red and a dialog box announcing that they have a virus would be good.
For revenge purposes, a self-executing archive which is a file containing one byte 10^12 times should compress nice and small but cause a few headaches when retrieved.
dave
Personally, I found it easier to write VBA apps for Access from Excel.
Speaking of Excel - is there a serious Linux alternative to it? Spreadsheet with programming language which can talk to other apps?
dave
Of course, Win2k is *far* more stable than Win98 (*spit*). That's certainly a reason to go for it than stay with the old Win9x stuff. It's more secure too and it doesn't feel any slower on my old desktop than Win98 did.
dave