"fell under the false impression that "Yahoo" and "Altavista" were application programs on their desktop" -- I've noticed that before too, mainly with my father. He's telling me "Oh, at work we got Yahoo, Altavista, etc, and they're nice. We also have MSN installed." Makes me sick, ya know?
For ordinary users, the dot-files in their directory can do at most run something AS THAT USER UPON LOGIN. This is NOT the same as running something upon system startup. System startup programs are usually run from/etc/rc.d/* or/etc/rc* whichever flavor of UNIX you're using. Only root can modify those files, as it is a critical link in the security of the system.
Here's a way Napster could promote CD sales: Only allow Napster users to distribute MP3s up to a max bitrate of 64, or 96 Kbit/sec. THAT way, people can "try before they buy". 64 or 96 Kbit/sec music just isn't acceptable quality to me, so that would be more than enough incentive to go buy the CDs. I've recently got all the songs of an album I like off napster and realized that 128 Kbit/sec just isn't good enough either. I'm honestly tempted to buy the CD and rip them at 160 or 256 Kbit/sec just so I have the gold of quality.
This doesn't work on MSIE 5 though, but seems to work fine with Netscape 4.* (and Mozilla?)
Use the Window-target: _top header in HTTP. With a CGI, put it before the Content-type header, or with PHP3 just use:
header("Window-target: _top");
Again, it works fine in NS4.*, but it doesn't appear to work with MSIE 5, at least not at my school. Maybe the JavaScript solution could be the MSIE solution.
SO many times I've read a manual or book in which I have the GUSHING URGE to just GREP the book and find what page information is on. At that, provide PDF *AND* ASCII versions of the documentation, ASCII so UNIX commands such as "grep" become useful. As long as it's not too big of a disk-space concern (on the floppy or CD) nobody who cares about the ASCII version will bother having it.
Yeah well, how 'bout a nice TRS-80 Color Computer (original version), with 32KB RAM? Huh? Where the Video Framebuffer was ON the RAM... and you could program where to place the framebuffer. Oh boy do I remember having fun writing BASIC programs to browse my RAM by switching the framebuffer base address with several keys available for navigating...
So she apparantly died in May of 1999, then I'm hoping on her homepage that "11.03.99" in the "what's new" section means MARCH 11, 1999 and not NOVEMBER 3, 1999 right?
I have an idea towards that. FREE SOFTWARE - THE ULTIMATE IN GEEK BUSINESS. Free Software. Don't just take corporate America by storm, take them by wallets.
I agree with him on the X layer issue; it's not GNOME as much as X11. It's probably not even the fact that X11 is a "layer", as much as the fact that it's a bloated piggy piece of junk. I'm sure a windowing system like X11 could be built that runs orders of magnitude faster than X11 does. Really. I only wish something like that could be developed, even better, developed on an older machine so it scales superfast to new machines. Oh well, dreaming is always great when you don't know enough about graphics programming to convert hot steam into code...
Speaking of Autoconf/Automake, PLEASE can somebody point me to resources on how to create configure scripts and/or set up a GNU autoconf-based source package! Or for that matter, something to explain GNU m4 simply and concisely, so I can at least get my feet into the water before I dive in. I like how Glade creates the GNU autoconf setup automatically, but I'd love to change some of my other various utilities I've written to use Autoconf. Thanks.
WYSIWYG... to a certain extent like WMakerConf's Theme Preview feature? I found that pretty stunning. My already religiously favorite Window Manager (You know, I've tried BlackBox, KDE, E, IceWM, AfterStep, etc, but NOTHING has convinced me to stray away from Window Maker... I've used it for over a year) has such a cool program (not WM-designed, seeing as wmakerconf is an external utility not made by the WM team AFAIK) designed for it.
Nah, it doesn't. That's what the GATOS project is all about. Currently the chief developer is busy, but next they're gonna work hard on KATOS as I understand; the Kernel Ati Tv Overlay System, i.e. the Video4Linux driver. The current GATOS is a standalone program that does work with my ATI All In Wonder Pro 8MB PCI card... I'm able to watch movies and TV with it. Video capture isn't too possible yet though... the current frame grabber built into GATOS thrashes my HD so hard the filesystem gets corrupted.
All I remember was it being the other way around... i.e. FreeBSD for the mail servers (lots of mail going through there, need a solid OS), and Solaris for the webserver (guess it's suited for the job somehow)
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haha, supply us with the 24-bit jpeg of that please;-) *just barely saw what that portrayed in 5x7 font maximized in 800x600...*
I agree the number of females in IT will increase, and I hope they do, just so us geeky men don't have anymore gender-loneliness to rant about! But one thing I'd love to address is the ranting. Personally I think talking about the topic is stupid, and possibly harmful. I'd rather have a generation of female technology workers coming into the field with natural intent in their mind than with a general air of "Oh, we've gotta show those men what we're made of!" If it happens the second way, then we'll regret it for sure. One condition for preventing a migration based on public bias will be to stop the bias in the first place!
I'm sorry if I'm taking up too much space with this offtopic question, but could you point me to a good resource(s) for a programmer wanting to learn LISP? I've tried to comprehend the stuff in the emacs-lisp-tutorial, but just can't quite grab a solid foundation from it. Any great starters or tutorials would be appreciated; send URLs to spirilis@scitus.yi.org, or flames/spam to (cat/dev/zero >/dev/hda)
If they're willing to put that much effort into preventing CDs from being copied, then I'm willing to put that much effort into plugging a malemale 1/8" phono cord between a CD player and my Line-In jack on the soundcard, and record the WAV with an analog step in-between. This is how I make MP3s out of songs on cassette tapes anyhow...
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"fell under the false impression that "Yahoo" and "Altavista" were application programs on their desktop" -- I've noticed that before too, mainly with my father. He's telling me "Oh, at work we got Yahoo, Altavista, etc, and they're nice. We also have MSN installed." Makes me sick, ya know?
For ordinary users, the dot-files in their directory can do at most run something AS THAT USER UPON LOGIN. This is NOT the same as running something upon system startup. System startup programs are usually run from /etc/rc.d/* or /etc/rc* whichever flavor of UNIX you're using. Only root can modify those files, as it is a critical link in the security of the system.
I'm upgrading after trying out a DoS I found from (packetstorm I believe) on a friend's 2.2.14 machine, and royally pissing him off in the process. :)
Here's a way Napster could promote CD sales: Only allow Napster users to distribute MP3s up to a max bitrate of 64, or 96 Kbit/sec. THAT way, people can "try before they buy". 64 or 96 Kbit/sec music just isn't acceptable quality to me, so that would be more than enough incentive to go buy the CDs. I've recently got all the songs of an album I like off napster and realized that 128 Kbit/sec just isn't good enough either. I'm honestly tempted to buy the CD and rip them at 160 or 256 Kbit/sec just so I have the gold of quality.
Use the Window-target: _top header in HTTP. With a CGI, put it before the Content-type header, or with PHP3 just use:
header("Window-target: _top");
Again, it works fine in NS4.*, but it doesn't appear to work with MSIE 5, at least not at my school. Maybe the JavaScript solution could be the MSIE solution.
SO many times I've read a manual or book in which I have the GUSHING URGE to just GREP the book and find what page information is on. At that, provide PDF *AND* ASCII versions of the documentation, ASCII so UNIX commands such as "grep" become useful. As long as it's not too big of a disk-space concern (on the floppy or CD) nobody who cares about the ASCII version will bother having it.
Yeah well, how 'bout a nice TRS-80 Color Computer (original version), with 32KB RAM? Huh? Where the Video Framebuffer was ON the RAM... and you could program where to place the framebuffer. Oh boy do I remember having fun writing BASIC programs to browse my RAM by switching the framebuffer base address with several keys available for navigating...
So she apparantly died in May of 1999, then I'm hoping on her homepage that "11.03.99" in the "what's new" section means MARCH 11, 1999 and not NOVEMBER 3, 1999 right?
I have an idea towards that. FREE SOFTWARE - THE ULTIMATE IN GEEK BUSINESS. Free Software. Don't just take corporate America by storm, take them by wallets.
(redundant but anyway...) One of the top comment posters mentioned, the password is stored (in Windows) in reverse, so check for neew instead of ween.
2184x^38
An echo-request packet *is* a standard ping packet, isn't it?
*grin* What would be different? Slashdot always is incessantly lagged whenever I get home and access it; might as well consider it down...
I agree with him on the X layer issue; it's not GNOME as much as X11. It's probably not even the fact that X11 is a "layer", as much as the fact that it's a bloated piggy piece of junk. I'm sure a windowing system like X11 could be built that runs orders of magnitude faster than X11 does. Really. I only wish something like that could be developed, even better, developed on an older machine so it scales superfast to new machines. Oh well, dreaming is always great when you don't know enough about graphics programming to convert hot steam into code...
Speaking of Autoconf/Automake, PLEASE can somebody point me to resources on how to create configure scripts and/or set up a GNU autoconf-based source package! Or for that matter, something to explain GNU m4 simply and concisely, so I can at least get my feet into the water before I dive in. I like how Glade creates the GNU autoconf setup automatically, but I'd love to change some of my other various utilities I've written to use Autoconf.
Thanks.
WYSIWYG ... to a certain extent like WMakerConf's Theme Preview feature? I found that pretty stunning. My already religiously favorite Window Manager (You know, I've tried BlackBox, KDE, E, IceWM, AfterStep, etc, but NOTHING has convinced me to stray away from Window Maker... I've used it for over a year) has such a cool program (not WM-designed, seeing as wmakerconf is an external utility not made by the WM team AFAIK) designed for it.
sorry, that was just too much... *wipes the Sunny D off his chin*
Nah, it doesn't. That's what the GATOS project is all about. Currently the chief developer is busy, but next they're gonna work hard on KATOS as I understand; the Kernel Ati Tv Overlay System, i.e. the Video4Linux driver. The current GATOS is a standalone program that does work with my ATI All In Wonder Pro 8MB PCI card... I'm able to watch movies and TV with it. Video capture isn't too possible yet though... the current frame grabber built into GATOS thrashes my HD so hard the filesystem gets corrupted.
All I remember was it being the other way around... i.e. FreeBSD for the mail servers (lots of mail going through there, need a solid OS), and Solaris for the webserver (guess it's suited for the job somehow)
haha, supply us with the 24-bit jpeg of that please ;-) *just barely saw what that portrayed in 5x7 font maximized in 800x600...*
Hey wow, that's a neat name you have. "Ceren" and "Ercen" -- just letter reorderings of each other :)
I agree the number of females in IT will increase, and I hope they do, just so us geeky men don't have anymore gender-loneliness to rant about! But one thing I'd love to address is the ranting. Personally I think talking about the topic is stupid, and possibly harmful. I'd rather have a generation of female technology workers coming into the field with natural intent in their mind than with a general air of "Oh, we've gotta show those men what we're made of!" If it happens the second way, then we'll regret it for sure. One condition for preventing a migration based on public bias will be to stop the bias in the first place!
I'm sorry if I'm taking up too much space with this offtopic question, but could you point me to a good resource(s) for a programmer wanting to learn LISP? I've tried to comprehend the stuff in the emacs-lisp-tutorial, but just can't quite grab a solid foundation from it. Any great starters or tutorials would be appreciated; send URLs to spirilis@scitus.yi.org, or flames/spam to (cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda)
er, "male-to-male" cord.
If they're willing to put that much effort into preventing CDs from being copied, then I'm willing to put that much effort into plugging a malemale 1/8" phono cord between a CD player and my Line-In jack on the soundcard, and record the WAV with an analog step in-between. This is how I make MP3s out of songs on cassette tapes anyhow...