Thing is that WMP is a standalone app, one assumes that sparkle will be embedded into the OS, I mean browser, through activeX or something full of security holes like that. I don't see them releasing a standalone IE for windows much less one for linux or os/x:)
When I got my first mac (a rev a imac to play around with) I found the lack of warez... disturbing. Even the newsgroups couldn't help as they didn't post in the standard uuencode/yenc that something like Pan or agent would recognize. Anyway, I finally discovered that limewire has all the warez you need. Bittorrent seems decent these days as well. Not that you can run much on a 200mhz imac of course:)
I'm sure that's for the OS and the bare bones support apps, not the host of office/db/servers/etc that the standard linux distro that installs to 5G comes to as well.
Course, I'm preaching to the choir here (and the trolls)
Actually, they mirror files, but if it fails to find it on their server, it'll fail over to any other servers noted in the.ebuild (ie: the original distribution). But hey, if that doesn't work you can find the file and put it into/usr/portage/distfiles yourself, or modify the ebuild to point to the right place.
This is harder if you need files to install your network, but then you use the pre-compiled files, or install the files from floppy or CD.
If you want to download and use local copies of the install files, I'm sure that's possible as well, though not the "normal" way to do it. Maybe you should post to the gentoo user forum or user list and see if anyone has any suggestions.
Course, that assumes you haven't completely given up on it:)
Longhorn will take a big step forward in this area.
Longhorn however, hasn't had it's new interface shown or examined in public, and isn't due out for at least another two years, so what they will do isn't really relevant IMHO.
That's almost as nice (rude) as the one on the frontpage of puretracks:
Thank you for visiting Puretracks.com
Currently our website supports Internet Explorer 5.0 and above on the Windows operating system, and is available to Canadian residents only.
We value our Mac audience, however the Windows Media player for the Mac platform is not currently compatible with Microsoft protected audio content. Puretracks is currently working to make our service available to Mac users.
I've sent them a nice/nasty email already saying that it's very hard for me to evaluate or recommend their service if I can't get into their site with the browser (mozilla) and OS (linux) that I use at work. Sucks to be them.
Don't forget the movie is in pre-production, and based on the trailer(s) it doesn't look like there's a whole lot of actual film that's been shot yet. As with DNF, I'll wait until it's actually out before I believe it:)
Good thoughts, wish I had mod points. Personally I agree, I can't get tivo in canada, so I get to either watch tv shows on tv, or buy the DVDs, and if it's something that's honestly a good show that I want to watch (a la, buffy, angel, 24, etc) I'll pay the money for it (and I have). However, people putting crappy programming up for download in BT are going to find the same thing that the record companies have found, that if people have the choice they'll ignore the crap.
Gnome is not an OS. Gnome is a window manager. Please remember the separation of kernel and GUI that linux has which XP doesnt. If you get kernel panics and the box locks up completely, then you can say you've had Linux crash. Saying that gnome crashes is like saying that you've had the task bar in XP crash.
As for XP crashing, yea, it's pretty stable, almost as stable as Linux. Sadly because the GUI is coupled so tightly with the OS, having an IE crash or your video drivers mess up sometimes means that your have to reboot.
Of course, if I counted the reboots I have to do to install application upgrades as crashes.....:)
You know, when I was about 10 I got one of those "science kits". You know, the ones with a lightbulb, coils, some wires on aligator clips, and other stuff to allow kids to learn about electricity and make neat stuff like flashlights or radios or whatever. Even at 10 it didn't take me long to figure out that I couldn't use a lightbulb to give energy to the solar panel which would then power the same lightbulb.
Don't forget that RAID only protects you from hardware failures, it doesn't prevent you from doing an "rm -rf important_file":)
Personally I have a server with a RAID 5 array that is shared via SAMBA to windows and linux clients, which works fine, though I may adjust this if good suggestions are made here. The only real issue would be disk space, and all my computers now have 120G+ hard drives or RAID array....
I'd go with the "blatently trying to embarrass the company" thing, but if you look at the text of the entry:
It looks like somebody over in Microsoft land is getting some new toys... [image] I took this shot on the way into work on the loading dock (MSCopy, the print shop I work in, is in the same building as MS's shipping and receiving). Three palettes of Dual 2.0Ghz G5's on their way in to somewhere deep in the bowels of Redmond. Hopefully they're all in good condition when they arrive -- the boxes are slick enough that a few of them took a bit of a tumble (you can see them back in the truck)!
I don't see anything in there at all that's embarassing. He is simply stating that G5's arrived at MS and they are headed somewhere into the company. If he'd said something like "wh00t! l4m3rs at M$$$$ finally got around to getting a real OS those l0s3rs LOLOLOL!!!!!1111!!!" then yea, I'd fire his ass (or laugh along with him). But this is just a statement.
One thing that KNOPPIX is missing, probably for legal reasons though, is support for nforce video network cards. Lots of MBs these days are the sort with only 1 nforce NIC on it, and not having net when booting up my new box with KNOPPIX is a bit of a pain.
Just go into the database (assuming you're running off of mysql) and run something like "delete from mt-comments where author = 'spammer@whatever'" or "where website = 'http://blahpornspam.com'". Run a rebuild afterwards and all spam will be gone. Make sure you run a select on the author = or url = to make sure you know what you're deleting. Note: the actual fields aren't correct I'm sure, run 'desc ' to get them first.
I've seen the requests for a mass delete of comments in the support forums for MT as well, you're not the only one.
There has been some discussion on this that I've seen on various blogs I read, and basically the concensus seems to be that people don't want to make the barrier to entry of submitting a comment harder (ie: accounts), as part of the beauty of blog comments is the spontinaity. Most people I've seen have either done some of the 7 tips for a spam free blog or are using the MT Blacklist plugin.
Once I installed the latter and did some of the former, I've had almost no spam, vs several hundred over a couple of days. Now whether that is testimony to how well the tips work or that the spammers are going in short bursts then taking breaks is still unknown.
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Thing is that WMP is a standalone app, one assumes that sparkle will be embedded into the OS, I mean browser, through activeX or something full of security holes like that. I don't see them releasing a standalone IE for windows much less one for linux or os/x :)
When I got my first mac (a rev a imac to play around with) I found the lack of warez... disturbing. Even the newsgroups couldn't help as they didn't post in the standard uuencode/yenc that something like Pan or agent would recognize. Anyway, I finally discovered that limewire has all the warez you need. Bittorrent seems decent these days as well. Not that you can run much on a 200mhz imac of course :)
I'm sure that's for the OS and the bare bones support apps, not the host of office/db/servers/etc that the standard linux distro that installs to 5G comes to as well.
Course, I'm preaching to the choir here (and the trolls)
Actually, they mirror files, but if it fails to find it on their server, it'll fail over to any other servers noted in the .ebuild (ie: the original distribution). But hey, if that doesn't work you can find the file and put it into /usr/portage/distfiles yourself, or modify the ebuild to point to the right place.
:)
This is harder if you need files to install your network, but then you use the pre-compiled files, or install the files from floppy or CD.
If you want to download and use local copies of the install files, I'm sure that's possible as well, though not the "normal" way to do it. Maybe you should post to the gentoo user forum or user list and see if anyone has any suggestions.
Course, that assumes you haven't completely given up on it
Don't you mean shift-click, shift-option-click, shift-option-apple-click, option-click, option-apple-click, and shift-apple-click?
Longhorn will take a big step forward in this area.
Longhorn however, hasn't had it's new interface shown or examined in public, and isn't due out for at least another two years, so what they will do isn't really relevant IMHO.
Hi, you must be new to the internet. Would you like that in a handbasket? :)
Geez, just go and download the XP Professional which doesn't require activation.
That's almost as nice (rude) as the one on the frontpage of puretracks:
Thank you for visiting Puretracks.com
Currently our website supports Internet Explorer 5.0 and above on the Windows operating system, and is available to Canadian residents only.
We value our Mac audience, however the Windows Media player for the Mac platform is not currently compatible with Microsoft protected audio content. Puretracks is currently working to make our service available to Mac users.
feedback@puretracks.com
I've sent them a nice/nasty email already saying that it's very hard for me to evaluate or recommend their service if I can't get into their site with the browser (mozilla) and OS (linux) that I use at work. Sucks to be them.
Don't forget the movie is in pre-production, and based on the trailer(s) it doesn't look like there's a whole lot of actual film that's been shot yet. As with DNF, I'll wait until it's actually out before I believe it :)
Good thoughts, wish I had mod points. Personally I agree, I can't get tivo in canada, so I get to either watch tv shows on tv, or buy the DVDs, and if it's something that's honestly a good show that I want to watch (a la, buffy, angel, 24, etc) I'll pay the money for it (and I have). However, people putting crappy programming up for download in BT are going to find the same thing that the record companies have found, that if people have the choice they'll ignore the crap.
Gnome is not an OS. Gnome is a window manager. Please remember the separation of kernel and GUI that linux has which XP doesnt. If you get kernel panics and the box locks up completely, then you can say you've had Linux crash. Saying that gnome crashes is like saying that you've had the task bar in XP crash.
:)
As for XP crashing, yea, it's pretty stable, almost as stable as Linux. Sadly because the GUI is coupled so tightly with the OS, having an IE crash or your video drivers mess up sometimes means that your have to reboot.
Of course, if I counted the reboots I have to do to install application upgrades as crashes.....
Yet the US points to Canada like we're the anti-christ for proposing to legalize pot. Yea, that makes sense.
You know, when I was about 10 I got one of those "science kits". You know, the ones with a lightbulb, coils, some wires on aligator clips, and other stuff to allow kids to learn about electricity and make neat stuff like flashlights or radios or whatever. Even at 10 it didn't take me long to figure out that I couldn't use a lightbulb to give energy to the solar panel which would then power the same lightbulb.
Don't forget that RAID only protects you from hardware failures, it doesn't prevent you from doing an "rm -rf important_file" :)
Personally I have a server with a RAID 5 array that is shared via SAMBA to windows and linux clients, which works fine, though I may adjust this if good suggestions are made here. The only real issue would be disk space, and all my computers now have 120G+ hard drives or RAID array....
I don't see anything in there at all that's embarassing. He is simply stating that G5's arrived at MS and they are headed somewhere into the company. If he'd said something like "wh00t! l4m3rs at M$$$$ finally got around to getting a real OS those l0s3rs LOLOLOL!!!!!1111!!!" then yea, I'd fire his ass (or laugh along with him). But this is just a statement.
Course, I haven't read the article yet
One thing that KNOPPIX is missing, probably for legal reasons though, is support for nforce video network cards. Lots of MBs these days are the sort with only 1 nforce NIC on it, and not having net when booting up my new box with KNOPPIX is a bit of a pain.
IE: if you're running your blog from mysql you would type in
$ mysql -u [username] -p [name of blog database]
This would depend on your setup of course.
You can just edit the induvidual entry and main index pages to remove the link, and then remove or rename mt-comments.cgi....
Just go into the database (assuming you're running off of mysql) and run something like "delete from mt-comments where author = 'spammer@whatever'" or "where website = 'http://blahpornspam.com'". Run a rebuild afterwards and all spam will be gone. Make sure you run a select on the author = or url = to make sure you know what you're deleting. Note: the actual fields aren't correct I'm sure, run 'desc ' to get them first.
I've seen the requests for a mass delete of comments in the support forums for MT as well, you're not the only one.
Once I installed the latter and did some of the former, I've had almost no spam, vs several hundred over a couple of days. Now whether that is testimony to how well the tips work or that the spammers are going in short bursts then taking breaks is still unknown.
Alans Rule #1,456,483
"Any useful tool will eventually be inandated with porn spam and advertising, therefor making it useless"
Hmm... I always thought that the comparisions between highschool and prison were a bit weak, seems that society is working to make them more accurate.
This is a workaround, not a solution.... also IIRC the quality of music captured through the soundcard sucks compared to an actual digital copy of it.
Magnets? Luxury! When I was your age we didn't have no fancy magnets, we had to wait for the moon to be in the right place in orbit to manipulate the 1s and 0s....