From and end-user perspective, BugZilla is a complicated, confusing, steaming pile of shit!
As an end-user I shouldn't have to "create an account", "login" or anything else to report a damn bug. Especially from a link within the program itself. A brief bit of text outlining what makes up a good bug report is fine, but I shouldn't have to jump thru hoops just to say "X is broken, here is how to reproduce it, here is my config".
For other developers, it is fine. For end-users, it is a nightmare.
Hulu doesn't recognize that I have Flash 10 installed (64-bit) when run thru Miro. How do I tell Miro that I really do have Flash? It works fine in Firefox.
Fuck those stupid code names for Ubuntu! Put the damn version numbers up like normal people. Alliterative animal names are for 4 year olds. Get over them.
The VIA chip has built-in crypto accelerators and the idiots running the test pick something that doesn't use it! How about a with and without for comparison?
Sorry, but you won't. Not as long as 70-80% of our economy is based on consumer spending. Everyone saving would, unfortunately, be *worse* for our economy.
What needs to be done is shift the economy so it isn't fundamentally built on product churn and people continuously buying crap. We need more production and less consumption before people start saving or it won't work.
Not on a large scale anyway. If only a few people do it, they can improve THEIR condition but it doesn't scale. (Hint, hint)
There have been dedicated MPEG encoding and decoding chips for many years. DXR3 comes to mind.
I think the only new twist is applying the idea to general calculations as a whole as opposed to a specific function or set of functions in software. An interesting idea. Maybe we'll end up with double-precision, single-precision and ballpark floats.
The article says over $9,000,000 was stolen using only 100 cards in 49 cities in a 30 minute period. That, boys and girls, is $90,000 per card. The article says the limits on the cards were overridden, using them to make withdrawals in multiple increments of $500 or so. $90,000 / $500 is 180 withdrawals in a 30 minute period, or 6 withdrawals per minute.
This article doesn't pass the basic sniff test. It reeks of either disinformation or seriously bad math.
1. Sites that have no personal info or I don't really give a damn about. Those share 2 or 3 different passwords depending on their lame (no special characters!) requirements. Pick two words, use 7334 spelling and separate them by a punctuation mark. For example "mad money" becomes "M@d;m0n3y". Good luck guessing stuff like that.
2. Sites that I care about, like online banking or ones that contain personal information (LinkedIn, for example), have random line noise for passwords and I just write them down. There is a notebook in my desk with all the passwords. The desk is locked and in my home office. That is far more secure than trying to make them easy enough to memorize.
3. If you use Firefox, make sure you use a Master Password if you allow it to remember passwords.
Someone posted this earlier and it is a useful BASH script.
America's Army for Linux/Mac is 2.5 (4 or 5 version behind), and has ceased to be supported. There are very, very few servers to play on. There are rumors the new 3.0 client will be back for Linux, but I'll believe it when I see it.
By UT2 I meant UT2-engine based games. Sorry for not being clear.
The only reason I have a Windows image at home is for a couple of games. So far, only VMWare Workstation can handle Windows gaming with any decent speed since it supports DirectX. Do any of the other virtualizers work well with gaming? I'm talking about games like COD4, America's Army, and others based on the UT2/UT3 engine.
I do believe the magnetron in the microwave is a tad more energetic than your average RFID reader. Well, I hope it is anyway. If not, we're going to have some seriously upset -- and sterile -- border control agents.
There is no such thing as pure economic reason outside of a text book. There are *always* other factors involved. For example, quality and speed of service, or convenience.
I said that those (locally owned & operated) were important considerations, but not the *only* ones. I'm willing to pay a premium of about 10-15% to locally owned and operated businesses as opposed to big box stores or foreign imports. But I'm not willing to buy crap or put up with poor service. My quality of life is directly affected by the economic success of my local economy. I live very near the downtown area of a small Chicago suburb, and having healthy and sustainable businesses within easy walking distance is an important factor that I'm willing to support with a small premium on cost.
I also make a large meat purchase once a month from a local farm, mostly beef and pork in their many forms raised within 80-100 miles of where I live. The product quality is excellent and guaranteed fresh. There is a side benefit of reducing pollution and energy consumption by a (very) small fraction by limiting the distance the food travels to my plate. Finally, it employs that many more people in my local economic zone.
In this case, I'm treating "patriotism" as "think globally, act locally" instead of a synonym for nationalism, which can be very bad.
And if I was asking for ONLY using UTC time for the BIOS, then that MSDN article would be pertinent. I'm simply asking for the option, in case a person dual-boots with Linux or Solaris and Windows. Thanks, though.
The average Joe *did* support it and got behind it when the Bush Administration sent everyone a $600-$1,200 "tax rebate" last year. There was a measurable spike in electronics purchases. So much so it was named as a reason there isn't going to be another such direct payment in Obama's stimulus package. All those precious electronic gadgets are made overseas, mostly in China. The money barely slowed down as it exited the country. The gov't was hoping people would purchase things like durable consumer goods made in the U.S., or put it towards a down-payment on a car, etc.
Suckers.
For my part I purchased a new American-made deluxe Weber grill and bought it at a local, independent shop. Both factors (local purchase, American-made) *were* important factors in my purchase. Lots of local farms in the Midwest to purchase grill supplies like ribs, steaks, burgers, bratwurst, etc. Mmmmmmm...I gotta brush the snow off later today and fire that puppy up!
Really? I just pulled it off my son's machine because it refused to install America's Army, except for an old version. Nor would it take the patches.
On the plus side:
It boots noticeably faster than XP on the same machine. It shuts down noticeably faster than XP on the same machine. The from-scratch install was as easier than any previous Windows install, and damn close to as easy as Kubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10. Aero *is* spiffy. It recognized all my RAM using the 64-bit version. The 32-bit compatibility on the 64-bit version was transparent. It picked up my WiFi-N/WPA-2 network early on in the install and used NTP to set the clock.
On the down side, how hard is it for Microsoft to add some code to accommodate people who have their hardware clock set to UTC? I mean just put a damn check box there!
I was just pointing out that both CBS and NBC seem to use a standard Flash player and I didn't have these issues with their competitors. I'll happily do without ABC.
After seeing enough reports on the switch on TV, my wife who hates computers, asked me last night "Can you find the shows I watch online?" After we found them, she then said "What do we need the TV for?" And that is the big question.
My kids haven't watched TV, other than something in a restaurant or doctor's waiting room, in a couple years now. They watch everything online. Of the three shows my wife watches, two are available online at the network sites and the third can be found via torrents. Actually, all three are available on the network sites, it is just ABC USES SOME FUCKING PROPRIETARY PLAYER THAT DOESN'T WORK ON LINUX! Thus, we either live without that show (no big deal) or hit Pirate Bay. ABC, are you listening? Just use a standard Flash player like everyone else.
While some of the people still watching broadcast TV don't have broadband, most of those fall into the "old people -- gonna die soon" demographic. What happens to broadcast in 10 years?
We might take you a TAD more seriously if you could count to 4 properly. Hint, it is 1 2 3 4, not 1 2 2 3. Hell, I would have cut you some slack if you'd done 1 1 2 3 and just assumed in Googleland they count using a Fibonacci sequence.
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From and end-user perspective, BugZilla is a complicated, confusing, steaming pile of shit!
As an end-user I shouldn't have to "create an account", "login" or anything else to report a damn bug. Especially from a link within the program itself. A brief bit of text outlining what makes up a good bug report is fine, but I shouldn't have to jump thru hoops just to say "X is broken, here is how to reproduce it, here is my config".
For other developers, it is fine. For end-users, it is a nightmare.
Hulu doesn't recognize that I have Flash 10 installed (64-bit) when run thru Miro. How do I tell Miro that I really do have Flash? It works fine in Firefox.
Fuck those stupid code names for Ubuntu! Put the damn version numbers up like normal people. Alliterative animal names are for 4 year olds. Get over them.
The VIA chip has built-in crypto accelerators and the idiots running the test pick something that doesn't use it! How about a with and without for comparison?
Sorry, but you won't. Not as long as 70-80% of our economy is based on consumer spending. Everyone saving would, unfortunately, be *worse* for our economy.
What needs to be done is shift the economy so it isn't fundamentally built on product churn and people continuously buying crap. We need more production and less consumption before people start saving or it won't work.
Not on a large scale anyway. If only a few people do it, they can improve THEIR condition but it doesn't scale. (Hint, hint)
There have been dedicated MPEG encoding and decoding chips for many years. DXR3 comes to mind.
I think the only new twist is applying the idea to general calculations as a whole as opposed to a specific function or set of functions in software. An interesting idea. Maybe we'll end up with double-precision, single-precision and ballpark floats.
Isn't that essentially what JPEG, MPEG and every other lossy codec or transform does?
The article says over $9,000,000 was stolen using only 100 cards in 49 cities in a 30 minute period. That, boys and girls, is $90,000 per card. The article says the limits on the cards were overridden, using them to make withdrawals in multiple increments of $500 or so. $90,000 / $500 is 180 withdrawals in a 30 minute period, or 6 withdrawals per minute.
This article doesn't pass the basic sniff test. It reeks of either disinformation or seriously bad math.
I group passwords two ways.
1. Sites that have no personal info or I don't really give a damn about. Those share 2 or 3 different passwords depending on their lame (no special characters!) requirements. Pick two words, use 7334 spelling and separate them by a punctuation mark. For example "mad money" becomes "M@d;m0n3y". Good luck guessing stuff like that.
2. Sites that I care about, like online banking or ones that contain personal information (LinkedIn, for example), have random line noise for passwords and I just write them down. There is a notebook in my desk with all the passwords. The desk is locked and in my home office. That is far more secure than trying to make them easy enough to memorize.
3. If you use Firefox, make sure you use a Master Password if you allow it to remember passwords.
Someone posted this earlier and it is a useful BASH script.
dd if=/dev/random bs=200 count=1 | tr -cd 'A-Za-z0-9!@#$%^&*()_+'; echo
Copy a group of 10-15 out of the middle of that and use it for a password.
The whole "but does it run Linux" meme is valid!
...doesn't do well in the closet...
Well THERE is your problem. Your wife needs to come out of the closet.
America's Army for Linux/Mac is 2.5 (4 or 5 version behind), and has ceased to be supported. There are very, very few servers to play on. There are rumors the new 3.0 client will be back for Linux, but I'll believe it when I see it.
By UT2 I meant UT2-engine based games. Sorry for not being clear.
The only reason I have a Windows image at home is for a couple of games. So far, only VMWare Workstation can handle Windows gaming with any decent speed since it supports DirectX. Do any of the other virtualizers work well with gaming? I'm talking about games like COD4, America's Army, and others based on the UT2/UT3 engine.
More to the point, Denny's is giving away free Grand Slam breakfasts from 6:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. (local time) today.
Time to see if the /. effect works IRL and DoS Denny's.
I do believe the magnetron in the microwave is a tad more energetic than your average RFID reader. Well, I hope it is anyway. If not, we're going to have some seriously upset -- and sterile -- border control agents.
Thanks for the input, though.
Just out of curiosity, have you tested the effectiveness of that shielding wallet? If so, how?
Really? The first thing I did was pick up one of these, which I already had on hand at the house. Mine is *guaranteed* effective. :-)
There is no such thing as pure economic reason outside of a text book. There are *always* other factors involved. For example, quality and speed of service, or convenience.
I said that those (locally owned & operated) were important considerations, but not the *only* ones. I'm willing to pay a premium of about 10-15% to locally owned and operated businesses as opposed to big box stores or foreign imports. But I'm not willing to buy crap or put up with poor service. My quality of life is directly affected by the economic success of my local economy. I live very near the downtown area of a small Chicago suburb, and having healthy and sustainable businesses within easy walking distance is an important factor that I'm willing to support with a small premium on cost.
I also make a large meat purchase once a month from a local farm, mostly beef and pork in their many forms raised within 80-100 miles of where I live. The product quality is excellent and guaranteed fresh. There is a side benefit of reducing pollution and energy consumption by a (very) small fraction by limiting the distance the food travels to my plate. Finally, it employs that many more people in my local economic zone.
In this case, I'm treating "patriotism" as "think globally, act locally" instead of a synonym for nationalism, which can be very bad.
And if I was asking for ONLY using UTC time for the BIOS, then that MSDN article would be pertinent. I'm simply asking for the option, in case a person dual-boots with Linux or Solaris and Windows. Thanks, though.
The average Joe *did* support it and got behind it when the Bush Administration sent everyone a $600-$1,200 "tax rebate" last year. There was a measurable spike in electronics purchases. So much so it was named as a reason there isn't going to be another such direct payment in Obama's stimulus package. All those precious electronic gadgets are made overseas, mostly in China. The money barely slowed down as it exited the country. The gov't was hoping people would purchase things like durable consumer goods made in the U.S., or put it towards a down-payment on a car, etc.
Suckers.
For my part I purchased a new American-made deluxe Weber grill and bought it at a local, independent shop. Both factors (local purchase, American-made) *were* important factors in my purchase. Lots of local farms in the Midwest to purchase grill supplies like ribs, steaks, burgers, bratwurst, etc. Mmmmmmm...I gotta brush the snow off later today and fire that puppy up!
Really? I just pulled it off my son's machine because it refused to install America's Army, except for an old version. Nor would it take the patches.
On the plus side:
It boots noticeably faster than XP on the same machine.
It shuts down noticeably faster than XP on the same machine.
The from-scratch install was as easier than any previous Windows install, and damn close to as easy as Kubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10.
Aero *is* spiffy.
It recognized all my RAM using the 64-bit version.
The 32-bit compatibility on the 64-bit version was transparent.
It picked up my WiFi-N/WPA-2 network early on in the install and used NTP to set the clock.
On the down side, how hard is it for Microsoft to add some code to accommodate people who have their hardware clock set to UTC? I mean just put a damn check box there!
Nice timing, considering just yesterday Coca-Cola announced that they are dropping the label "classic".
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aqSV_EEN_hrk&refer=us
Yeah, but I bitched none-the-less. :-)
I was just pointing out that both CBS and NBC seem to use a standard Flash player and I didn't have these issues with their competitors. I'll happily do without ABC.
After seeing enough reports on the switch on TV, my wife who hates computers, asked me last night "Can you find the shows I watch online?" After we found them, she then said "What do we need the TV for?" And that is the big question.
My kids haven't watched TV, other than something in a restaurant or doctor's waiting room, in a couple years now. They watch everything online. Of the three shows my wife watches, two are available online at the network sites and the third can be found via torrents. Actually, all three are available on the network sites, it is just ABC USES SOME FUCKING PROPRIETARY PLAYER THAT DOESN'T WORK ON LINUX! Thus, we either live without that show (no big deal) or hit Pirate Bay. ABC, are you listening? Just use a standard Flash player like everyone else.
While some of the people still watching broadcast TV don't have broadband, most of those fall into the "old people -- gonna die soon" demographic. What happens to broadcast in 10 years?
We might take you a TAD more seriously if you could count to 4 properly. Hint, it is 1 2 3 4, not 1 2 2 3. Hell, I would have cut you some slack if you'd done 1 1 2 3 and just assumed in Googleland they count using a Fibonacci sequence.