I've investigated this further and can't reproduce my results.
My best guess is that Flashblock is not hooking all the possible ways of triggering a Flash object, and I mistook this for untoward behaviour by the latest Flash Player.
> And even more evil for uninstalling Flashblock, if that's true.
I am ashamed to discover that it is not true. Abject apologies to Macromedia.
I've failed to entirely recreate my previous findings. My best guess is that Flashblock lets some through its net and I mistook this for Flash Player circumventing Flashblock.
Yes, Flash Click To View is a better name, if more unwieldy.
> And even more evil for uninstalling Flashblock, if that's true.
I am ashamed to discover that it is not true. Abject apologies to Macromedia.
I've failed to entirely recreate my previous findings. My best guess is that Flashblock lets some through its net and I mistook this for Flash Player circumventing Flashblock.
Yes, Flash Click To View is a better name, if more unwieldy.
1) Flashblock was installed and working 2) I installed Flash Player from the Macromedia site 3) Flashblock no longer functioned or showed up in Firefox's Extensions window 4) I tried re-installing Flashblock. The installation process appeared to ruyn okay, but resulted in the same situation as (3). 5) I downloaded the XPI file, modded it to install under a <i>nom de guerre</i> 6) It installed and functions okay
If anyone can try replicating this I'd be grateful. Any ideas on uninstalling Flash Player 7?
Flashblock replaces Macromedia Flash animations with a button you have to click to download and run the animation. Most uses of Flash are abominations to me; I like to choose when to consume it.
Gripe wrt Macromedia: a couple of days back I installed the latest and greatest Flash player from Macromedia on my WinXP box and it uninstalled Flashblock for me.
Better yet: it also prevents subsequent (re-)installation of Flashblock.
Solution: download Flaskblock.xpi, unzip it, mod so that it installs under a nom de guerre, rezip and install.
Anybody at Macromedia, if you're listening: STOP BEING NAUGHTY.
Say, for example, 2.6.8 turns out to have a bug or two and the odd vulnerability.
If 2.6.9 has other unrelated active development it has a greater chance of containing other unknowable issues than a 2.6.9 with fixes and minor mods to well understood code with track history.
I mount via nfs over a VPN over 1Mb ADSL (rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,rw,async,noatime,noaut o,user) and after the Vim session is restored, don't have a problem.
An rsync based script (FWIW in Python) to xfer disparate directories and files works around the cumbersomeness problem.
As for the 'use version control' responses: I don't want to store intermediate versions of persistent files and don't want to store intermediate/temporary files at all (but don't want to recreate them from scratch every couple of day when I swap from home to/from office).
BTW: Nick, how's the AFS investigation going? {8{)}
It's currently the Queen's English (and idomatically usually referred to as such).
Accents are colour blind. Most of our boxers, of whatever hue, definitely do not use the Monarch's English. Hey, most of 'em have enough trouble stringing any words togther of any description:)
And I have you note that it's the accent I care about. Ford could be whatever variety of English you care to mention, we are a mongrel nation after all - pre-Celts (whoever they were), Celts, Romans (from many parts of that empire), Anglo-Saxon (et al. - whoever he was), Vikings, French, assorted slaves, Commonwealth immigrants and assorted others.
But DNA wrote what he wrote in his inimitable style. I guess I'll have to live with ingenuity of casting, but I'd prefer integrity.
For me, given that it was a radio series first, I'll go with your first but not your second point.
To expand a little. Yes Ford can be what ever colour you like, NAP. But Douglas Adams was a _very_ English writer, and if he wrote Ford with an English accent (witness accents on original BBC Radio4 series: mostly, but not entirely, English accents), I'd prefer it to stay that way.
That said, without DNA to keep the director/movie corp in line, I'm re-jigging my expectations for the film.
Disney doing subtle mixed with off-beat English humour <shudder>.
We have a decent Digital Audio Broadcasting radio network in the UK and I'd love to have it hooked up to my Linux box and a PVR (PRR?) system for:
replaying snippets
recording shows to schedule
keeping the last four hours for when I miss a show.
V. cool. Now will someone please sell me a DAB PCI card that runs under Linux? All I can find is the following from Modular Technology:
Q. Can I use the card under LINUX ?
A. Modular Technology's stance has to be that in order to maximise the effectiveness of our customer support, we will only support the use of the DAB PCI card in PCs running Windows-98, Me, 2000 or XP.
Q. Can I write my own LINUX driver for the card ?
A. We are occasionally asked about drivers for non-Windows platforms, eg. LINUX or MAC. The reality is that to write such drivers would be a huge software undertaking which we are not in a position to support effectively. Here are two considerations for any person or company thinking of embarking on such a development:-
i) The card has a TI PCI2040 PCI Bus bridge chip as a PCI interface, it is not thought that drivers (other than Windows) exist for this chip.
ii) The software makes extensive use of the Audio facilities in Direct-X, there's no equivalent outside the Windows environment.
Arggghhh! "We dont' know how to do it, and don't have the resources to spare to help someone else do it either. Even though we'd likely corner the (niche) market".
Ho-de-flippin-hum.
Huge great arrays of solar panels in solar orbit preceeding and lagging the earth (and a handful out of the ecliptic for good measure - stability issues?), plus a weenie bit of cable connected to a few space elevator ribbons!
... because the TV series used many (most) of the actors from the BBC Radio4 series which PREDATED the book.
And the voices from the radio series sound right because the material was written for those voices (scripts were sometimes being written with next to no time befor etransmission!).
My father-in-law was involved in Donald Davies' group at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK doing research into packet switching in the mid-1960s, so you're not that far off the mark:)
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Ten years ago I pointed this out to a secular humanist friend and was shredded for my efforts.
<sigh>
There's none so blind as those who won't see.
"But he's not wearing any clothes!"
You don't mean to say that it's illegal to extract credit card details from your plaintext email messages do you? I'm shocked! {8{P}
kol-ur to mean Pepsi or Coke? I'd (Nat.Geog.) transcribe colo{u,}r as: kull-uh. So, to kill off this debate, colour should be spelt: culler.
Isn't apt-get the apt-get for rpm systems nowadays?
Yes, you're quite correct wrt the unsound conclusion. As I've said elsewhere in this thread, I've investigated further and eaten my original words.
I've investigated this further and can't reproduce my results.
My best guess is that Flashblock is not hooking all the possible ways of triggering a Flash object, and I mistook this for untoward behaviour by the latest Flash Player.
Abject apologies to Macromedia.
I am ashamed to discover that it is not true. Abject apologies to Macromedia.
I've failed to entirely recreate my previous findings. My best guess is that Flashblock lets some through its net and I mistook this for Flash Player circumventing Flashblock.
Yes, Flash Click To View is a better name, if more unwieldy.
I've failed to entirely recreate my previous findings. My best guess is that Flashblock lets some through its net and I mistook this for Flash Player circumventing Flashblock. Yes, Flash Click To View is a better name, if more unwieldy.
The sequence of events was:If anyone can try replicating this I'd be grateful. Any ideas on uninstalling Flash Player 7?
Sometimes Flash is either useful or necessary. Mostly it's neither.
Flashblock replaces Macromedia Flash animations with a button you have to click to download and run the animation. Most uses of Flash are abominations to me; I like to choose when to consume it.
Gripe wrt Macromedia: a couple of days back I installed the latest and greatest Flash player from Macromedia on my WinXP box and it uninstalled Flashblock for me.
Better yet: it also prevents subsequent (re-)installation of Flashblock.
Solution: download Flaskblock.xpi, unzip it, mod so that it installs under a nom de guerre, rezip and install.
Anybody at Macromedia, if you're listening: STOP BEING NAUGHTY.
Set its value to 'once' or 'none'.
Bug fixes and security vulnerabilities.
Say, for example, 2.6.8 turns out to have a bug or two and the odd vulnerability.
If 2.6.9 has other unrelated active development it has a greater chance of containing other unknowable issues than a 2.6.9 with fixes and minor mods to well understood code with track history.
Er, did you forget the X-server box or am I missing something about the X terminals?
Nah, he meant trying to get results by feeding the fibres into a breadboard. As eny fule kno...
I mount via nfs over a VPN over 1Mb ADSL (rsize=8192,wsize=8192,intr,rw,async,noatime,noau
An rsync based script (FWIW in Python) to xfer disparate directories and files works around the cumbersomeness problem.
As for the 'use version control' responses: I don't want to store intermediate versions of persistent files and don't want to store intermediate/temporary files at all (but don't want to recreate them from scratch every couple of day when I swap from home to/from office).
BTW: Nick, how's the AFS investigation going? {8{)}
You might not call it structured, but surely it is just the simplest of structures, a single field?
It's currently the Queen's English (and idomatically usually referred to as such).
Accents are colour blind. Most of our boxers, of whatever hue, definitely do not use the Monarch's English. Hey, most of 'em have enough trouble stringing any words togther of any description :)
And I have you note that it's the accent I care about. Ford could be whatever variety of English you care to mention, we are a mongrel nation after all - pre-Celts (whoever they were), Celts, Romans (from many parts of that empire), Anglo-Saxon (et al. - whoever he was), Vikings, French, assorted slaves, Commonwealth immigrants and assorted others.
But DNA wrote what he wrote in his inimitable style. I guess I'll have to live with ingenuity of casting, but I'd prefer integrity.
For me, given that it was a radio series first, I'll go with your first but not your second point.
To expand a little. Yes Ford can be what ever colour you like, NAP. But Douglas Adams was a _very_ English writer, and if he wrote Ford with an English accent (witness accents on original BBC Radio4 series: mostly, but not entirely, English accents), I'd prefer it to stay that way.
That said, without DNA to keep the director/movie corp in line, I'm re-jigging my expectations for the film.
Disney doing subtle mixed with off-beat English humour <shudder>.
replaying snippets
recording shows to schedule
keeping the last four hours for when I miss a show.
V. cool. Now will someone please sell me a DAB PCI card that runs under Linux? All I can find is the following from Modular Technology:
Arggghhh! "We dont' know how to do it, and don't have the resources to spare to help someone else do it either. Even though we'd likely corner the (niche) market". Ho-de-flippin-hum.Huge great arrays of solar panels in solar orbit preceeding and lagging the earth (and a handful out of the ecliptic for good measure - stability issues?), plus a weenie bit of cable connected to a few space elevator ribbons!
Or is this just a (big fat) pipe dream?
... because the TV series used many (most) of the actors from the BBC Radio4 series which PREDATED the book.
And the voices from the radio series sound right because the material was written for those voices (scripts were sometimes being written with next to no time befor etransmission!).
Google's your friend lazy one :)
My father-in-law was involved in Donald Davies' group at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK doing research into packet switching in the mid-1960s, so you're not that far off the mark :)
Google it for more info
Plato's Republic contains the famous analogy of the cave, to which this parable bears a resemblance.