Wait...are you suggesting that perhaps Lucas DIDN'T completely write out episodes 1 through 9 and then later decide to film 4, 5, and 6 for solid artistic reasons? You mean he just wrote "episode 4" and later the others, trying to keep it all straight in his head, and has been lying to the fans all along?
Broadband access is $30/month or so, more in some area. For a lot of people, it's not worth that much to them. I can understand that - $30/month for cable/dish television isn't worth it to me.
But you get so many more channels! And there's on-screen digital menus! And you can get a personal recorder! And! And! And!
Yeah, all true. All very nifty keen. I just have things that are more interesting to me to spend $360/year on (or, say, $10,800 over the next 30 years before I retire). However, I can't stand being without broadband.
I have relatives that just like to send e-mail. They compose off-line and batch-send. They use the web sometimes - mostly to shop - but often don't connect every day. Now they pay $15 a month or whatever for access and you could say that another $15 isn't much more...I'm sure when the difference gets down to zero they'll go broadband, but...
I submit a suggestion for an interview with the head of FreeGeek.org, a company that refurbishes PCs, puts Linux on them, gives them to needy families, and teches said families how to use Linux...
2004-04-08 14:53:31 Interview with FreeGeek head Oso Martin (interviews,linuxbiz) (rejected)
...meanwhile, a Slashdot advertiser's story is accepted.
Actually, sometimes they do have a Unix geek around, who'll load a Linux distro and hold a class to teach them how to use it...well, at least in Portland, Oregon: FreeGeek, "Helping the needy get nerdy."
This isn't that hard to do. Periodically I roll everything into a simple Postgres database. Really, the script to parse mbox format and populate a table (from, to, subject, date, other_headers, message, etc.) is only about 20 lines. Once you have it in a database, you can search to your heart's content.
I've installed it and used it. No activation. As it happens,
I installed it on my laptop in January
laptop was going to be reimaged so I installed it on my home PC a couple weeks later
upgraded home PC to SATA drives and started from clean disks
So although I haven't pirated it, I've installed it three times on two different machines. It's worked each time. There was a minor bug with one of the installs, but I went to Intuit's web site and the problem and resolution was listed in the FAQ.
I did the math this year, and
Retail boxed Fed at Costco + Retail boxed State at Costco - purchase rebates + filing fees - filing rebates
was less than
TT for the web Fed + TT for the web State + filing fees
YMMV. Of course, it would been even cheaper to do it all on paper...
...Slashdot irresponsibly sucks up someone's bandwidth quota on a free site like angelfire.
Readers keep recommending Slashdot mirror sites. But of course, that would mean (a) editors would have to read the site to know what we think, and (b) they would have to do some actual work.
...mod_perl does;)
Seriously. I (like many others) love HTML::Mason. HTML::Mason doesn't work with mod_perl 1.9.x and masonhq isn't going to make it work with mod_perl 1.9.x because they don't want to invest the energy in a pre-production release. I can't blame them. Until mod_perl goes to 2.0, I'm not going to;)
Dude, I live in Portland and I don't "bother to read" the Oregonian because it's one of the most useless papers in existence. Nothing but reprints from the wires and a few happy homemaker articles salted on top.
When you say "anybody who bothers to read the Oregonian," you're sounding like "well, of course every enlightened individual reads the Oregonian". In my experience, bright people are off reading something else.
Slashdot Mirror
That is the single most funny and insightful thing I've ever read on Slashdot.
Well, yeah, that's why he said "most".
...well, of google and akamai.
Not true. You do not need your product key number unless you're claiming more than X refunds, and I forget what X is...5?
I'm shocked...shocked!
BTW, it's not jusr the database licensing but also 9i RAC licensing ($20K/CPU list).
No wonder IBM's Power 4 looks so much better. Plus it comes with a non-lame volume manager and filesystem (no Veritas tax).
I'm not an IBM shill...just saying that Sun is at a serious competitive disadvantage for big databases.
But you get so many more channels! And there's on-screen digital menus! And you can get a personal recorder! And! And! And!
Yeah, all true. All very nifty keen. I just have things that are more interesting to me to spend $360/year on (or, say, $10,800 over the next 30 years before I retire). However, I can't stand being without broadband.
I have relatives that just like to send e-mail. They compose off-line and batch-send. They use the web sometimes - mostly to shop - but often don't connect every day. Now they pay $15 a month or whatever for access and you could say that another $15 isn't much more...I'm sure when the difference gets down to zero they'll go broadband, but...
Actually, sometimes they do have a Unix geek around, who'll load a Linux distro and hold a class to teach them how to use it...well, at least in Portland, Oregon: FreeGeek, "Helping the needy get nerdy."
Hell, Oracle started on the mainframe...
The actual Chernobyl disaster was horrible. Yeah, well, so was World War II, but there's been no shortage of games based on it and no one complains.
You misspelled "postfix".
This isn't that hard to do. Periodically I roll everything into a simple Postgres database. Really, the script to parse mbox format and populate a table (from, to, subject, date, other_headers, message, etc.) is only about 20 lines. Once you have it in a database, you can search to your heart's content.
- I installed it on my laptop in January
- laptop was going to be reimaged so I installed it on my home PC a couple weeks later
- upgraded home PC to SATA drives and started from clean disks
So although I haven't pirated it, I've installed it three times on two different machines. It's worked each time. There was a minor bug with one of the installs, but I went to Intuit's web site and the problem and resolution was listed in the FAQ.I did the math this year, and
was less thanYMMV. Of course, it would been even cheaper to do it all on paper...Readers keep recommending Slashdot mirror sites. But of course, that would mean (a) editors would have to read the site to know what we think, and (b) they would have to do some actual work.
"Discussed a new theory" is more accurate...
...mod_perl does ;)
Seriously. I (like many others) love HTML::Mason. HTML::Mason doesn't work with mod_perl 1.9.x and masonhq isn't going to make it work with mod_perl 1.9.x because they don't want to invest the energy in a pre-production release. I can't blame them. Until mod_perl goes to 2.0, I'm not going to ;)
....they'd release mod_perl 2.0 ;)
When you say "anybody who bothers to read the Oregonian," you're sounding like "well, of course every enlightened individual reads the Oregonian". In my experience, bright people are off reading something else.
Wait...10 gigabites is about 1 gigabyte. I use up more disk space after a weekend with my digital camera. 1 gigabyte? That's it?
OSDL already set up one, bankrolled at $10 million.
Not accurate. You can emerge development-sources to get 2.6.3 (actually, 2.6.4-rc1 now). You don't need to use ~x86. Know it 'cause I've done it.
I was under the impression that the old syntax of "root=/dev/hda3" didn't work any more and one needed to specify integer numbers for root=...?
In fact, N1 does not support normal Solaris boxes right now.
It only supports Sun's blades. All of these other things will be supported in the bright, shining future, of course.
Let's see: you're breaking the law, it can be demonstrated through simple physics, here's a ticket.
I say: good use of technology.
Sometimes I wonder if geeks realize that the novel 1984 was fiction...