...to help a team beat Michael Schumacher. The guy is ridiculously good, and he's paired with a great car. F1 basically is a contest to see who will finish 2nd.
Wow! I knew this guy in college! He was my roommate for a couple of semesters! I never knew he was an F1 racer. The secrets some people keep.
Q: When will 1024x768 replace 800x600 for web design?
A: Hopefully, never. Actually, optimistically speaking, web designers will realize that they shouldn't even be aiming for or requiring a graphical resolution as not everyone uses a graphical browser.
Isn't pilot-link the thing that evolution uses for syncing?
The short answer: no. The long answer: while they may have shared a code base in the distant past, they definitely don't perform the same now. I'll admit that Evolution isn't perfect, and while I haven't had the severity of problems you listed, I've had some similar ones (duplicate contacts). I mainly use pilot-xfer in backup and restore mode, which does no "synchronizing", just bit for bit copies to or from the Palm.
So at the very least, back it up on a real copy of Palm Desktop before you experiment.
Considering Palm Desktop doesn't run on Linux, that is not an option for me. However, pilot-xfer (part of pilot-link) works quite nicely for commandline backup and restore.
Honestly, the amount of snarky comments along the lines of 'Oh, blogs suck anyway, who cares.', and 'It's all idiotic blabbing anyway.' are getting on my nerves.
Well, you know, you don't have to read them . ..
Really, no one thinks you're one of the cool kids now just because you think blogs are passe. Stop trying to be a post-ironic hipster type who's oh-so-tired of it all.
Maybe we bitch about blogs because we really do honestly think they suck and are a waste of time. Personally, I don't much care what other people think about me, which is a) why I don't have a blog and b) why I feel free to bitch about them even if people don't think I'm cool for it.
No one's putting a gun to your head and making you read them.
Well, hey, no one's putting a gun to your head to make you read the bitching about blogs. No, wait, I will, if you give me half a chance. Where do you live again? Oh shit, I forgot I don't have a gun. Guess you'll have to wait at least five days while I get it cleared.
(the above was sarcasm, and not intended as threat, but really more of a tongue in cheek diatribe against hypocrites such as the one I'm responding to).
And this is also EXACTLY why I run my own web, email and file servers, and run them on open source software. Barring things that are out of my control, those servers aren't going down or going away. By making them my servers, I drastically reduce the number of things that are out of my control.
I know a lot of people like to bag on Evolution, but I've found it works quite nicely when synchronizing to my Palm m500 over serial. I'm using Debian stable, and there are a couple of packages that you will need besides evolution. I believe they were evolution, gnome-pilot, and gnome-pilot-conduits (apt should get all the proper dependencies). Although, you still only get one address (business) on the Palm side, I believe this is a limitation with the Palm addressbook software. You can keep multiple addresses in Evolution, but only the business one will show up on the Palm addressbook.
"Checking all my favorite sites this morning, I saw that about half a dozen seem to be offline. Trying to figure out why, I found an interesting article on the front page at http://isc.incidents.org/. Seems that the problems at Akamai are screwing over Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Fedex, Xerox, Apple, and others. Whatever happened to my decentralized net with no single point of failure?"
Hmmm, corporate whore much? Slashdot, Debian and my own two sites seem to be working just fine. Maybe the sites you choose to visit just don't get the 'net and it's decentralized nature.
The strength of GUIs is that they are discoverable. Once you learn how to move the mouse, select items, and navigate menus, you can discover pretty much everything a program can do by doing just that.
Actually, I've discovered that GUI's can be infinitely more difficult to fully "explore". This especially becomes readily apparent in games where you use the mouse to point and look and as little as a pixel offset can make the difference between win and lose. Of course, you would hope that GUI designers wouldn't hide things like this, but you still run into orders of magnitude more options in a GUI program where everything is not linear. Want to know ALL the commands that are available to you in a decent CLI? Press TAB twice and answer 'yes'. How can I do the same thing in a GUI?
There is no way (AFICS) to prevent this bug being exploited through those kind of limits.
I have pretty strict user limits set on all my users (including myself, to be fair). When I saw this article posted this morning, I cut and pasted the code, compiled it, saved everything on my test/development workstation, then ran it. The MP3's stopped playing, a bad sign. Used the SysRq keys to Sync, Unmount and Boot after other typical keypresses didn't work. So no, limits don't prevent this.
That sucks, but I think you would have fared better if you had understood and stood up for your rights in the first place. Not been rude or disagreeable, just firm and righteous.
Everyone should go get a copy of the ACLU's Pocket Card on Police Encounters. Print it out, laminate it, keep in on you at all times. Memorize it, love it, live it.
I've read most of the comments here at my default +5, and I have to say, I don't see how so many trolls and blatant lies got modded so high.
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking "oh, he's just another Linux elitist who's going to condenscedingly tell me what to do." And you would be wrong.
I'm not going to tell you what to do. I'm going to tell you what *I* do, and see if I can make any sense of the garbage that's getting posted here.
I use Debian GNU/Linux (isn't it obvious from the sig?). Stable. Not unstable, not even testing. With a 2.4 kernel on P4's with a minimum of 512MB of RAM. And they all fly.
I program. I write software for Navy weapon sims. I write software for my company on the side. I play NeverWinter Nights on my machine with an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, while scanning photos, reading email and administrating the servers for my company and personal use. All of this flies, and [Microsoft] Windows doesn't even compare. And yes, I use Windows (ever heard of NMCI?). MacOSX? Don't make me laugh; I've used it, I've programmed in it, I used to administer a whole lab of it. It's slow and buggy. GNU/Linux runs fast and smoothly on the exact same hardware. GNU/Linux doesn't crash (unless I'm doing some obscure kernel hacking), and it doesn't "stutter" when I'm playing MP3's while image editing a 500MB file in GIMP.
GNU/Linux allows me to do more and more things at the same time. GNU/Linux makes things possible that I never would have imagined possible on Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS X.
But you know what? None of this matters. The only thing that matters to me is that GNU/Linux is Free as in Freedom.
I don't know why you guys are having so many problems with GNU/Linux. All I can say is that I've had worse with Windows an MacOSX, and even if I hadn't, I would _still_ use GNU/Linux, because it's Free. Fortunately, in my not so humble experience, GNU/Linux is better in every sense of the word.
So I guess the term for Linux is "feature-rich" but the equivalent term for Windows is "bloated".
That is correct. And do you know why? Because on Linux, you have the choice to use a light, fast desktop, or to use a feature heavy desktop, or even not run in XWindows at all! And it still runs on a 386 with 4MB of RAM.
Windows 2000 or Server 2003, most likely, and those are simply not operating systems to be laughed at.
Sure they are. I laugh at them everyday, or more accurately, I laugh at their users when they ask me for help. Then I tell them to call Microsoft for help, that's what they pay them for. You pirated it? Oh, well then, I guess you're screwed. Wanna copy of Debian? I'll even help you install it, for free!
the TV audience that day was denied its right to choose what it wanted to watch.
While I have to agree with you that people have a right to choose what they watch, I have to call bullshit on this one.
It was a LIVE broadcast. That means that it is generally not edited, and if an accident (such as a "wardrobe malfunction") happens, you're going to see it. If you can't handle that, get the edited version and watch it later. Oh, but you want to watch it live? Well, then you better be prepared to face the possible consequences.
The people who watched that game and halftime show made that choice; if they didn't know that something like that could happen, they were either willfully ignorant or apathetic, and it's their fault.
Personally, I think our society could do with less sex and violence on TV - it could make us a little more civilized.
Less violence - yes; less sex - no. What this society needs is to radically realign it's priorities, re: sex and violence. We've reaped the rewards of Puritanism (good education and a work ethic that makes us a world leader); why should we continue to suffer the negative aspects of it ("sex is bad, violence is good").?
Asking for decency during one particular type of broadcast is not the same as supressing free speech or censorship.
Yes, you may *ask* for "decency"; that's a right guaranteed to you under the first amendment. But you won't necessarily get it. You have no right to that, other than to change the channel. The same first amendment guarantees that I can say "Fuck, you are a really annoying asshole who is too anal and uptight for your own damn good!" and not be punished for it.
The next day, the outages were back... and the cause was obvious. Cohort finds the center of the outage, and drives there. And lo and behold, there's a van! No driver, but full of equipment, doors locked with the engine running. Cohort writes down the vin and license plate, calls the FCC on the cell phone, and boy... they're rabid about it. Then he told them the name of the consultant, and they instantly shifted to "we'll get back to you."
One word: C4. Haven't found a van yet that can withstand it.
give a user 10 steps to perform to possibly view some naughty pictures of a celebrity and chances are, a significant proportion of them will do so and infect their computer in the process. Heck, some of them would probably run it as root/admin if you asked them to...
That's it! Just make it so that those ten steps are ones to secure your system, and *everyone* will do it!
OS Upgrade Prompt: Want to see this cutie get backdoored? Just follow these steps to turn off *your* backdoors first!
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Wow! I knew this guy in college! He was my roommate for a couple of semesters! I never knew he was an F1 racer. The secrets some people keep.
A: Hopefully, never. Actually, optimistically speaking, web designers will realize that they shouldn't even be aiming for or requiring a graphical resolution as not everyone uses a graphical browser.
Helpful links:
People who say "best viewed at/with" obviously don't get the web.
The short answer: no. The long answer: while they may have shared a code base in the distant past, they definitely don't perform the same now. I'll admit that Evolution isn't perfect, and while I haven't had the severity of problems you listed, I've had some similar ones (duplicate contacts). I mainly use pilot-xfer in backup and restore mode, which does no "synchronizing", just bit for bit copies to or from the Palm.
Even better, try renting this movie (if you can find it). Better than "120 Days of Sodom"!
Here ya go. I've had mine preordered since last year; how about you?
(ps, I don't know if Doom III is out for Windows yet as I don't pay attention to Windows gaming. I'm a Linux gamer
Considering Palm Desktop doesn't run on Linux, that is not an option for me. However, pilot-xfer (part of pilot-link) works quite nicely for commandline backup and restore.
Well, you know, you don't have to read them . .
Maybe we bitch about blogs because we really do honestly think they suck and are a waste of time. Personally, I don't much care what other people think about me, which is a) why I don't have a blog and b) why I feel free to bitch about them even if people don't think I'm cool for it.
Well, hey, no one's putting a gun to your head to make you read the bitching about blogs. No, wait, I will, if you give me half a chance. Where do you live again? Oh shit, I forgot I don't have a gun. Guess you'll have to wait at least five days while I get it cleared.
(the above was sarcasm, and not intended as threat, but really more of a tongue in cheek diatribe against hypocrites such as the one I'm responding to).
And this is also EXACTLY why I run my own web, email and file servers, and run them on open source software. Barring things that are out of my control, those servers aren't going down or going away. By making them my servers, I drastically reduce the number of things that are out of my control.
I know a lot of people like to bag on Evolution, but I've found it works quite nicely when synchronizing to my Palm m500 over serial. I'm using Debian stable, and there are a couple of packages that you will need besides evolution. I believe they were evolution, gnome-pilot, and gnome-pilot-conduits (apt should get all the proper dependencies). Although, you still only get one address (business) on the Palm side, I believe this is a limitation with the Palm addressbook software. You can keep multiple addresses in Evolution, but only the business one will show up on the Palm addressbook.
Hmmm, corporate whore much? Slashdot, Debian and my own two sites seem to be working just fine. Maybe the sites you choose to visit just don't get the 'net and it's decentralized nature.
Actually, I've discovered that GUI's can be infinitely more difficult to fully "explore". This especially becomes readily apparent in games where you use the mouse to point and look and as little as a pixel offset can make the difference between win and lose. Of course, you would hope that GUI designers wouldn't hide things like this, but you still run into orders of magnitude more options in a GUI program where everything is not linear. Want to know ALL the commands that are available to you in a decent CLI? Press TAB twice and answer 'yes'. How can I do the same thing in a GUI?
I have pretty strict user limits set on all my users (including myself, to be fair). When I saw this article posted this morning, I cut and pasted the code, compiled it, saved everything on my test/development workstation, then ran it. The MP3's stopped playing, a bad sign. Used the SysRq keys to Sync, Unmount and Boot after other typical keypresses didn't work. So no, limits don't prevent this.
Everyone should go get a copy of the ACLU's Pocket Card on Police Encounters. Print it out, laminate it, keep in on you at all times. Memorize it, love it, live it.
I've read most of the comments here at my default +5, and I have to say, I don't see how so many trolls and blatant lies got modded so high.
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking "oh, he's just another Linux elitist who's going to condenscedingly tell me what to do." And you would be wrong.
I'm not going to tell you what to do. I'm going to tell you what *I* do, and see if I can make any sense of the garbage that's getting posted here.
I use Debian GNU/Linux (isn't it obvious from the sig?). Stable. Not unstable, not even testing. With a 2.4 kernel on P4's with a minimum of 512MB of RAM. And they all fly.
I program. I write software for Navy weapon sims. I write software for my company on the side. I play NeverWinter Nights on my machine with an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, while scanning photos, reading email and administrating the servers for my company and personal use. All of this flies, and [Microsoft] Windows doesn't even compare. And yes, I use Windows (ever heard of NMCI?). MacOSX? Don't make me laugh; I've used it, I've programmed in it, I used to administer a whole lab of it. It's slow and buggy. GNU/Linux runs fast and smoothly on the exact same hardware. GNU/Linux doesn't crash (unless I'm doing some obscure kernel hacking), and it doesn't "stutter" when I'm playing MP3's while image editing a 500MB file in GIMP.
GNU/Linux allows me to do more and more things at the same time. GNU/Linux makes things possible that I never would have imagined possible on Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS X.
But you know what? None of this matters. The only thing that matters to me is that GNU/Linux is Free as in Freedom.
I don't know why you guys are having so many problems with GNU/Linux. All I can say is that I've had worse with Windows an MacOSX, and even if I hadn't, I would _still_ use GNU/Linux, because it's Free. Fortunately, in my not so humble experience, GNU/Linux is better in every sense of the word.
That is correct. And do you know why? Because on Linux, you have the choice to use a light, fast desktop, or to use a feature heavy desktop, or even not run in XWindows at all! And it still runs on a 386 with 4MB of RAM.
Don't you mean " those other operating systems"?
Sure they are. I laugh at them everyday, or more accurately, I laugh at their users when they ask me for help. Then I tell them to call Microsoft for help, that's what they pay them for. You pirated it? Oh, well then, I guess you're screwed. Wanna copy of Debian? I'll even help you install it, for free!
Being rich does not preclude being a fool. There are many easy ways to get lots of money, most of which have nothing to do with intelligence.
While I have to agree with you that people have a right to choose what they watch, I have to call bullshit on this one.
It was a LIVE broadcast. That means that it is generally not edited, and if an accident (such as a "wardrobe malfunction") happens, you're going to see it. If you can't handle that, get the edited version and watch it later. Oh, but you want to watch it live? Well, then you better be prepared to face the possible consequences.
The people who watched that game and halftime show made that choice; if they didn't know that something like that could happen, they were either willfully ignorant or apathetic, and it's their fault.
Less violence - yes; less sex - no. What this society needs is to radically realign it's priorities, re: sex and violence. We've reaped the rewards of Puritanism (good education and a work ethic that makes us a world leader); why should we continue to suffer the negative aspects of it ("sex is bad, violence is good").?
Yes, you may *ask* for "decency"; that's a right guaranteed to you under the first amendment. But you won't necessarily get it. You have no right to that, other than to change the channel. The same first amendment guarantees that I can say "Fuck, you are a really annoying asshole who is too anal and uptight for your own damn good!" and not be punished for it.
One word: C4. Haven't found a van yet that can withstand it.
That's it! Just make it so that those ten steps are ones to secure your system, and *everyone* will do it!
Can I mod this article as "Troll"? Please?
And for USB 4.0, we can have ludicrous speed!
"Ah, buckle this!"