As we've said a bunch of times in the past, moving away from MySQL would be prohibitive. By now we know how to make it work for us; switching away from MySQL would not only involve massive rewriting of stuff and alterations on the existing DB, it'd take the next five years before we got as comfortable with the flaws and advantages of another DB package.
Sure, MySQL has its flaws -- some of them pretty big -- but we can work around them.
As for the "not needing a server cluster that big" -- do you have any clue how much data we push in an average day? We maintain so many DB clusters to improve reliability, and we maintain so many web nodes because we push a screaming shitload of traffic.
> Seriously though, has anyone ever removed a spacebar from a keyboard sucessfully and put it back on?
I've done it -- it involved a pair of tweezers, a toothpick, and a friend to hold the space bar in place while I maneuvered the little wire thingy into place. It's tough, but if you make the space bar the first key you put back on, it *can* be done. Just expect to curse at it for a while.:)
> or, putting them back in different places is always fun too
I took apart one of my old ADB Mac keyboards once to clean it (the cat hacked a hairball right on the keys... eeeew). Did the usual -- ran the keycaps through the dishwasher on low setting, tied up in a spare pair of pantyhose; cleaned the contacts with a Qtip, generally scrubbed, etc. I wound up with a pile of clean keys and a clean keyboard base, looked at it, and grinned inwardly.
I now have a perfectly mirror-image keyboard -- rather than qwerty, I have poiuyt, with two small little messups in symmetry so that the tits on the keyboard are in the right place for me to be able to put my fingers on the keys and just type. I love it -- it freaks people out to no end.
My roommate, who doesn't touch-type, had her ADB keyboard die a few months ago, and I dug the keyboard up out of storage. She started typing on it, looked at it, said "..." and asked me what the hell I'd been smoking. I had to find the other spare keyboard; I sure as hell wasn't prying those keycaps off again and switching them. =)
Today is 2554 Setember 1993, I think -- I've lost my conversion script. Anyone want to correct me?
(And yes, this "feature" does bring to mind the Pre-September Days on Usenet. When it was common to have a flame war that lasted for weeks, with nobody using any of the '7 deadly words'. As opposed, of course, to today's 'u r so gay' or whatever the mouthbreathers are using as an insult this week.)
> If I like a song on the radio, I'll buy the CD - Single, or Album.
And what if you listen to, say, Celtic folk music, and the radio stations around you play Top 40?
What if you listen to techno, and the only radio stations you get in your car are country & western?
Part of the point of Napster (more so with MP3.com, but yes, still with Napster) is that there are all these artists out there that we have never heard of, that you can "sample" before going out and blowing all that money on a CD that you might hate.
How many times have you been in a record store and picked up a CD because you thought the name of the artist was neat/you liked the cover art/your best friend knew someone who knew someone who once listened to the band? If your record store is like most, there aren't any listening stations. Are you willing to pay $22 for a CD you might hate? Or would you simply download three tracks from Napster, listen to them, and buy the CD if you liked those 3 tracks?
I'm not claiming that's all that Napster is used for, but it's certainly a use. It's still copyright infringement, yes, but it's copyright infringement that leads to sales. Which means that any intelligent artist should support it. Sure, there are people who are using it to 'steal' music. (Though I question how it's 'stealing', as there's no actual deprivation of property going on, and a lot of times, the people doing the download are the people who wouldn't buy the album after all.) But there are more people who are using it as a stepping stone to buy more music.
> Ok everyone, when's the last time you went to the record store and purchased a CD even though
> you had downloaded the same material on Napster?
Last weekend, actually. Except it was the used record store that I wandered into, not the local Sam Goody, because I will not give the RIAA one penny of my money until they pull their collective heads out of their collective asses and DO SOMETHING RIGHT FOR A CHANGE.
See, I use Napster to download songs, yes. But I also like having the physical media -- as long as I didn't just want one song from the disk. (In which case, I try and find a compilation that has said song.) These days, what I use Napster for mostly is downloading songs that I'm looking for until I can find the CD in the used-CD bins.
I will stop buying used CDs and start buying new CDs again when and if a). the RIAA does something to embrace (*not* "embrace and extend") digital music and online distribution, and b). CD prices drop from the current $18-$24.
Yes, one reason ethical and one economic; I'm not entirely boycotting for moral reasons. ^_^
It's not just lately, actually. Parasite Eve (1998) was the same way, as is Vagrant Story (best damn PSX game I've played since Xenogears!). And Parasite Eve 2 comes out today, I think, and that's the same way. Battle systems are a crucial bit of any RPG; it's the battle system that really makes the "feel" of the game.
If you're looking for "old school feel" RPGs, pick up Chrono Cross. Sequel to Chrono Trigger; they did a pretty amazing job of keeping the "feel" of CT, while making it really damn pretty.
--K. (yes, I'm biased in favor of RPGs, I work at RPGamer)
I don't bother arguing with them about whether or not I'm giving my information -- the RS employees around here are a little more aggressive about wanting your data. I just lie through my teeth.
Employee: Can I have your name, please?
Me: Maria Tazalotzahojient-Smith.
Employee:...Pardon?
Me: Maria Tazalotzahojient-Smith. With a 'z', a 'q', and two 'j's.
Employee:...Can you spell that?
Me: I don't have all day to stand here. Either give me my receipt right now, or let me see your manager.
> It happened a couple of years ago for the PlayStation, and has been going strong ever > since. There are about a dozen or so 'collection' games of old arcade classics, and > there are a bunch of 'new' versions of old games
The problem with that is the user interface. I own the PSX versions of a bunch of old arcade games, including Centipede and Crystal Castles, two of my favorites. Both of those games had a trackball on the original arcade upright, and I managed to get so used to it that when I picked up the PSX controller, I could not, for the life of me, summon up my old 'mad skillz'.
Likewise Asteroids. My parents used to have the arcade upright of Asteroids, and I could go for about six hours on a single quarter by the time I was 15. The PSX version? Forget it. It doesn't match the reflexes that I've learned deep down, and having to relearn them would be a bitch and a half.
Likewise the new "3D" remakes of classic arcade games. They, nearly unanimously, suck. 3D Frogger -- blech! Frogger is not supposed to be a 3D platformer, dammit, it's supposed to be a green blob on a black screen, and I don't care who tells me otherwise.
What *I* want is an arcade around me somewhere (upper central NJ) that has the classic games, well-maintained, without all the shoot 'em up and ninja games that overrun arcades these days. While I like, say, UMK3 (which is moving onwards towards 'classic' status itself) and Area 51 (ditto), nothing can beat the old Atari games. Anyone know of one such arcade?
> Someone has already suggested your idea. Check out the chrome ribbon campaign:
Irony: the "Keep Idiots Off The 'Net" campaign's home page has no ALT attributes on the IMG tags, thus rendering the page virtually unusable in lynx and other text-based browsers.... a mistake generally considered, in the design circles I usually frequent, to be idiotic.
> Any hardcore Mac users lurking here who have thoughts on how this > will be recieved by the Mac community at large?
I don't know about the community at large, but I personally can't wait to get my grubby little hands on a copy of OSX. I've been using BSD on the server and OS{7,8,9} on the desktop for ages now, and I think it'll be great to have an OS that combines the two.
I can't help it; I adore the Mac. Sure, it's a niche market, and the hardware is expensive, and there's no command line, but for sheer ease of use, you just can't beat it.
I believe you're talking about "Bally of Ballynore", a SCA version of the old Scottish 'Ball of Kerriemuir'. I've heard hundreds of verses, but every time I've heard it performed, it starts off with:
Let me tell you a little story About the ball of Ballynore There were four and twenty pagans Lyin' on the floor
And the verse you're talking about is:
Balls to your partner Your arse against the wall If you can't get laid at the Pennsic wars You can't get laid at all...
> If this dude publishes those names, and someone dies, he's a murderer, and I hope > he gets thrown in prison.
If a closed-source application from a notoriously slow-to-fix-bugs company has, say, a buffer overflow exploit, and you discover it, and you realize that the skr1pt k1dd1es have been exploiting said buffer overflow for the past six months, what would you do? Would you post that information to Bugtraq so that people could secure their systems, or would you sit on the information because, well, if you publish it, MORE script kiddies would know about it?
The information was published. I can guarantee that it is in the hands of people who will want to use this information for evil. All that John Young is doing is *preventing* the NYT from deleting the file and claiming that no harm had been done.
I tell you three times: If one side has information that can harm the other side, and a third party knows that information, the third party who publishes it is simply leveling the playing field.
If I happened to be a CIA spy (which, of course, I'm not) and the country I was spying on found out due to someone else's negligence that I was spying on them, I'd damn well want for that information to be freely available so that I could *know*.
> Even better, where are the genius record companies when you're looking for > a place to _buy_ your MP3's? Nope, I can't find ane MP3's for sale on Metallica's website. > Well gosh darn, instead of crying, DO SOMETHING!
This is an excellent point, and I think perhaps the crux of the MP3/Napster debate. I don't think that many of us would champion ripping the artists off -- at least, not on such a large scale. But the question is:/How do we legitimately pay for our MP3s/? I'll chime in myself as one of many who have downloaded MP3s (on my pathetic 56K connection) and then bought the album, at least before I started my boycott of commercially distributed music. However, what if there is only one song on the CD that you want? Many people say "just buy the single", but many, many times, the song that I want is/not/ the RIAA-blessed single.
I'd love the chance to download MP3s for price-of-single-less-cost-of-physical-media-and-di stribution. I'd adore the ability to pay for certain songs and have them burned to CD and shipped to me. But it's not there.
My comment to the RIAA would have to be this: I want to give you money. I don't want to be taking directly from the artist./Why/ will you not come up with a way to let me give you my money? Why will you instead sit in the corner with your fingers in your ears screaming piracy?
They'd never answer, of course. It would destroy the case they've built up for themselves, where the eeeevil internet community is stealing from them because we're all greedy bastard 'hackers'.
> Currently, I believe, it's lifetime of the author plus 75 years (but it could be 95, > I forget -- someone who actually knows copyright law, please feel free to correct me).
Quick websearch reveals that it's life-of-author plus 70 years, with work-for-hire and other corporate copyright considerations set at 95 years from date of first publication or 120 years from date of creation, whichever is shorter.
Because of the differences in copyright over the past 100 years, determining the status of copyright of any given work is a/nightmare/. I believe that Project Gutenberg has been running full-tilt into that problem since day 1.
> Aren't the copyrights on some of these games, especially the old arcade ones, about to expire?
No item has been placed into the public domain due to expiration of copyright since (IIRC) 1923. The US Congress has extended copyright terms every single time that the issue is about to come around. (The conspiracy theorist will point out that new copyright bills are introduced at the same time that Disney's copyright on Mickey Mouse is about to expire.)
As it stands now, something is copyrighted for nearly 100 years from date of creation. I believe you're thinking of patents, which are protected for 17 years from date of filing.
(keeping my opinion out of this; I don't need to get tagged as flamebait.:)
> that's free redirection, sure, but that doesn't help me if I don't have a static IP > or at least some form of URL in the first place.
I believe that there is a way to automatically update dyndns.{com,org} after you have been disconnected and your IP changes. The MOO I wizard for uses both of these services, and aside from a few moments of propagation delay when the host gets disconnected, it works fine.
> I think about the porting of Office to Linux and see many others adopting Linux as > a result. I then see clueless newbies who run as root all the time opening.DOC > attachments in their mail, and having a macro virus attack them.
Yes, but those of us who sit around and laugh at stupid people now will still be able to sit around and laugh at stupid people, because we don't log on as root all the time, and we don't launch untrusted applications.
So the net worth is that nothing really would change. ^_^
("What? You launched that.doc file while you were logged on as root? Sucks to be you, man. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to just go tweak my sendmail.cf a little more to squash this...")
Of course, you know that if M$ does port Outhouse to Linux, it will want to run as root. As a matter of fact, I'd be willing to bet money that part of Outlook's coding scheme hinges on the ability to modify things wholesale...
> My mother, up until this winter, endured one of the earliest PowerPCs. It was something like 66mHz. It was so slow > that you had to type at about 20 words a minute, lest it skip about every other letter. I never knew how hard > it was to slow down my typing (normally about 80 wpm)!
Up until last month, *I* was running on a Performa 6115, and up until last week (when she inherited the 6115) my roommate was running on a 6112. Both of them continue to be fully functional (with the exception of the fact that they both have slowly dying motherboard batteries) and didn't have the letter-skipping problem.
The key? RAM. The 6112 had 72MB and the 6115 had something insane like 128MB. The only reason I finally scraped together the cash to buy a G4 (mmm... G4....) was that I got tired of dealing with the limited disk space, and quite frankly, it was just more cost-effective to get the desktop supercomputer. ^_^
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As we've said a bunch of times in the past, moving away from MySQL would be prohibitive. By now we know how to make it work for us; switching away from MySQL would not only involve massive rewriting of stuff and alterations on the existing DB, it'd take the next five years before we got as comfortable with the flaws and advantages of another DB package.
Sure, MySQL has its flaws -- some of them pretty big -- but we can work around them.
As for the "not needing a server cluster that big" -- do you have any clue how much data we push in an average day? We maintain so many DB clusters to improve reliability, and we maintain so many web nodes because we push a screaming shitload of traffic.
...Why did my screen just turn black? And what's that it says ... *squints* You ... shall ... be ... as ... JonKatz? No, wait, that *can't* be right...
> Seriously though, has anyone ever removed a spacebar from a keyboard sucessfully and put it back on?
:)
I've done it -- it involved a pair of tweezers, a toothpick, and a friend to hold the space bar in place while I maneuvered the little wire thingy into place. It's tough, but if you make the space bar the first key you put back on, it *can* be done. Just expect to curse at it for a while.
> or, putting them back in different places is always fun too
... eeeew). Did the usual -- ran the keycaps through the dishwasher on low setting, tied up in a spare pair of pantyhose; cleaned the contacts with a Qtip, generally scrubbed, etc. I wound up with a pile of clean keys and a clean keyboard base, looked at it, and grinned inwardly.
I took apart one of my old ADB Mac keyboards once to clean it (the cat hacked a hairball right on the keys
I now have a perfectly mirror-image keyboard -- rather than qwerty, I have poiuyt, with two small little messups in symmetry so that the tits on the keyboard are in the right place for me to be able to put my fingers on the keys and just type. I love it -- it freaks people out to no end.
My roommate, who doesn't touch-type, had her ADB keyboard die a few months ago, and I dug the keyboard up out of storage. She started typing on it, looked at it, said "..." and asked me what the hell I'd been smoking. I had to find the other spare keyboard; I sure as hell wasn't prying those keycaps off again and switching them. =)
--K.
It is September. September, 1993, to be exact.
Today is 2554 Setember 1993, I think -- I've lost my conversion script. Anyone want to correct me?
(And yes, this "feature" does bring to mind the Pre-September Days on Usenet. When it was common to have a flame war that lasted for weeks, with nobody using any of the '7 deadly words'. As opposed, of course, to today's 'u r so gay' or whatever the mouthbreathers are using as an insult this week.)
> If I like a song on the radio, I'll buy the CD - Single, or Album.
And what if you listen to, say, Celtic folk music, and the radio stations around you play Top 40?
What if you listen to techno, and the only radio stations you get in your car are country & western?
Part of the point of Napster (more so with MP3.com, but yes, still with Napster) is that there are all these artists out there that we have never heard of, that you can "sample" before going out and blowing all that money on a CD that you might hate.
How many times have you been in a record store and picked up a CD because you thought the name of the artist was neat/you liked the cover art/your best friend knew someone who knew someone who once listened to the band? If your record store is like most, there aren't any listening stations. Are you willing to pay $22 for a CD you might hate? Or would you simply download three tracks from Napster, listen to them, and buy the CD if you liked those 3 tracks?
I'm not claiming that's all that Napster is used for, but it's certainly a use. It's still copyright infringement, yes, but it's copyright infringement that leads to sales. Which means that any intelligent artist should support it. Sure, there are people who are using it to 'steal' music. (Though I question how it's 'stealing', as there's no actual deprivation of property going on, and a lot of times, the people doing the download are the people who wouldn't buy the album after all.) But there are more people who are using it as a stepping stone to buy more music.
--K.
> Ok everyone, when's the last time you went to the record store and purchased a CD even though
> you had downloaded the same material on Napster?
Last weekend, actually. Except it was the used record store that I wandered into, not the local Sam Goody, because I will not give the RIAA one penny of my money until they pull their collective heads out of their collective asses and DO SOMETHING RIGHT FOR A CHANGE.
See, I use Napster to download songs, yes. But I also like having the physical media -- as long as I didn't just want one song from the disk. (In which case, I try and find a compilation that has said song.) These days, what I use Napster for mostly is downloading songs that I'm looking for until I can find the CD in the used-CD bins.
I will stop buying used CDs and start buying new CDs again when and if a). the RIAA does something to embrace (*not* "embrace and extend") digital music and online distribution, and b). CD prices drop from the current $18-$24.
Yes, one reason ethical and one economic; I'm not entirely boycotting for moral reasons. ^_^
It's not just lately, actually. Parasite Eve (1998) was the same way, as is Vagrant Story (best damn PSX game I've played since Xenogears!). And Parasite Eve 2 comes out today, I think, and that's the same way. Battle systems are a crucial bit of any RPG; it's the battle system that really makes the "feel" of the game.
If you're looking for "old school feel" RPGs, pick up Chrono Cross. Sequel to Chrono Trigger; they did a pretty amazing job of keeping the "feel" of CT, while making it really damn pretty.
--K. (yes, I'm biased in favor of RPGs, I work at RPGamer)
I don't bother arguing with them about whether or not I'm giving my information -- the RS employees around here are a little more aggressive about wanting your data. I just lie through my teeth.
...Pardon?
...Can you spell that?
Employee: Can I have your name, please?
Me: Maria Tazalotzahojient-Smith.
Employee:
Me: Maria Tazalotzahojient-Smith. With a 'z', a 'q', and two 'j's.
Employee:
Me: I don't have all day to stand here. Either give me my receipt right now, or let me see your manager.
Funny, but I never get junk mail....
> It happened a couple of years ago for the PlayStation, and has been going strong ever
> since. There are about a dozen or so 'collection' games of old arcade classics, and
> there are a bunch of 'new' versions of old games
The problem with that is the user interface. I own the PSX versions of a bunch of old arcade games, including Centipede and Crystal Castles, two of my favorites. Both of those games had a trackball on the original arcade upright, and I managed to get so used to it that when I picked up the PSX controller, I could not, for the life of me, summon up my old 'mad skillz'.
Likewise Asteroids. My parents used to have the arcade upright of Asteroids, and I could go for about six hours on a single quarter by the time I was 15. The PSX version? Forget it. It doesn't match the reflexes that I've learned deep down, and having to relearn them would be a bitch and a half.
Likewise the new "3D" remakes of classic arcade games. They, nearly unanimously, suck. 3D Frogger -- blech! Frogger is not supposed to be a 3D platformer, dammit, it's supposed to be a green blob on a black screen, and I don't care who tells me otherwise.
What *I* want is an arcade around me somewhere (upper central NJ) that has the classic games, well-maintained, without all the shoot 'em up and ninja games that overrun arcades these days. While I like, say, UMK3 (which is moving onwards towards 'classic' status itself) and Area 51 (ditto), nothing can beat the old Atari games. Anyone know of one such arcade?
> Someone has already suggested your idea. Check out the chrome ribbon campaign:
Irony: the "Keep Idiots Off The 'Net" campaign's home page has no ALT attributes on the IMG tags, thus rendering the page virtually unusable in lynx and other text-based browsers.... a mistake generally considered, in the design circles I usually frequent, to be idiotic.
> Any hardcore Mac users lurking here who have thoughts on how this
> will be recieved by the Mac community at large?
I don't know about the community at large, but I personally can't wait to get my grubby little hands on a copy of OSX. I've been using BSD on the server and OS{7,8,9} on the desktop for ages now, and I think it'll be great to have an OS that combines the two.
I can't help it; I adore the Mac. Sure, it's a niche market, and the hardware is expensive, and there's no command line, but for sheer ease of use, you just can't beat it.
> Wish I could remember the rest of that song...
I believe you're talking about "Bally of Ballynore", a SCA version of the old Scottish 'Ball of Kerriemuir'. I've heard hundreds of verses, but every time I've heard it performed, it starts off with:
Let me tell you a little story
About the ball of Ballynore
There were four and twenty pagans
Lyin' on the floor
And the verse you're talking about is:
Balls to your partner
Your arse against the wall
If you can't get laid at the Pennsic wars
You can't get laid at all...
email me for more verses. =)
--kyr, anxiously awaiting Pennsic.
> The Oracle knows all ...
You owe the Oracle 2 stolen laptops and a pair of rubber gloves for Dumpster-diving. And a good lawyer.
> If this dude publishes those names, and someone dies, he's a murderer, and I hope
> he gets thrown in prison.
If a closed-source application from a notoriously slow-to-fix-bugs company has, say, a buffer overflow exploit, and you discover it, and you realize that the skr1pt k1dd1es have been exploiting said buffer overflow for the past six months, what would you do? Would you post that information to Bugtraq so that people could secure their systems, or would you sit on the information because, well, if you publish it, MORE script kiddies would know about it?
The information was published. I can guarantee that it is in the hands of people who will want to use this information for evil. All that John Young is doing is *preventing* the NYT from deleting the file and claiming that no harm had been done.
I tell you three times: If one side has information that can harm the other side, and a third party knows that information, the third party who publishes it is simply leveling the playing field.
If I happened to be a CIA spy (which, of course, I'm not) and the country I was spying on found out due to someone else's negligence that I was spying on them, I'd damn well want for that information to be freely available so that I could *know*.
Mr. Young might very well be *saving* lives.
> Murder, plunder loot and burn
/never/ learn -- /then/ you burn.
> But all in moderation
Those crazy Saxons will
/first/ you pillage,
> Even better, where are the genius record companies when you're looking for
/How do we legitimately pay for our MP3s/? I'll chime in myself as one of many who have downloaded MP3s (on my pathetic 56K connection) and then bought the album, at least before I started my boycott of commercially distributed music. However, what if there is only one song on the CD that you want? Many people say "just buy the single", but many, many times, the song that I want is /not/ the RIAA-blessed single.
i stribution. I'd adore the ability to pay for certain songs and have them burned to CD and shipped to me. But it's not there.
/Why/ will you not come up with a way to let me give you my money? Why will you instead sit in the corner with your fingers in your ears screaming piracy?
> a place to _buy_ your MP3's? Nope, I can't find ane MP3's for sale on Metallica's website.
> Well gosh darn, instead of crying, DO SOMETHING!
This is an excellent point, and I think perhaps the crux of the MP3/Napster debate. I don't think that many of us would champion ripping the artists off -- at least, not on such a large scale. But the question is:
I'd love the chance to download MP3s for price-of-single-less-cost-of-physical-media-and-d
My comment to the RIAA would have to be this: I want to give you money. I don't want to be taking directly from the artist.
They'd never answer, of course. It would destroy the case they've built up for themselves, where the eeeevil internet community is stealing from them because we're all greedy bastard 'hackers'.
> I thought patents were protected for 17 years from date of grant, .. first?
> or 19 years from date of filing, whichever expires
You're probably right -- I haven't looked through patent law for a very long time. And, of course, IANAL.
> Currently, I believe, it's lifetime of the author plus 75 years (but it could be 95,
/nightmare/. I believe that Project Gutenberg has been running full-tilt into that problem since day 1.
> I forget -- someone who actually knows copyright law, please feel free to correct me).
Quick websearch reveals that it's life-of-author plus 70 years, with work-for-hire and other corporate copyright considerations set at 95 years from date of first publication or 120 years from date of creation, whichever is shorter.
Because of the differences in copyright over the past 100 years, determining the status of copyright of any given work is a
> Aren't the copyrights on some of these games, especially the old arcade ones, about to expire?
:)
No item has been placed into the public domain due to expiration of copyright since (IIRC) 1923. The US Congress has extended copyright terms every single time that the issue is about to come around. (The conspiracy theorist will point out that new copyright bills are introduced at the same time that Disney's copyright on Mickey Mouse is about to expire.)
As it stands now, something is copyrighted for nearly 100 years from date of creation. I believe you're thinking of patents, which are protected for 17 years from date of filing.
(keeping my opinion out of this; I don't need to get tagged as flamebait.
> Of course, that would be far to expensive, like they said, and someone would probably
> get ticked off enough eventually to go blow it up.
I'm sure that sooner or later, people will be willing to listen to Reason.
> that's free redirection, sure, but that doesn't help me if I don't have a static IP
> or at least some form of URL in the first place.
I believe that there is a way to automatically update dyndns.{com,org} after you have been disconnected and your IP changes. The MOO I wizard for uses both of these services, and aside from a few moments of propagation delay when the host gets disconnected, it works fine.
> Does anyone know of a way to get a free IP so you can run your own server from home?
<UI>
http://www.dyndns.com
http://www.dyndns.org
</UI>
> I think about the porting of Office to Linux and see many others adopting Linux as .DOC
.doc file while you were logged on as root? Sucks to be you, man. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to just go tweak my sendmail.cf a little more to squash this...")
> a result. I then see clueless newbies who run as root all the time opening
> attachments in their mail, and having a macro virus attack them.
Yes, but those of us who sit around and laugh at stupid people now will still be able to sit around and laugh at stupid people, because we don't log on as root all the time, and we don't launch untrusted applications.
So the net worth is that nothing really would change. ^_^
("What? You launched that
Of course, you know that if M$ does port Outhouse to Linux, it will want to run as root. As a matter of fact, I'd be willing to bet money that part of Outlook's coding scheme hinges on the ability to modify things wholesale...
> My mother, up until this winter, endured one of the earliest PowerPCs. It was something like 66mHz. It was so slow
... G4 ....) was that I got tired of dealing with the limited disk space, and quite frankly, it was just more cost-effective to get the desktop supercomputer. ^_^
> that you had to type at about 20 words a minute, lest it skip about every other letter. I never knew how hard
> it was to slow down my typing (normally about 80 wpm)!
Up until last month, *I* was running on a Performa 6115, and up until last week (when she inherited the 6115) my roommate was running on a 6112. Both of them continue to be fully functional (with the exception of the fact that they both have slowly dying motherboard batteries) and didn't have the letter-skipping problem.
The key? RAM. The 6112 had 72MB and the 6115 had something insane like 128MB. The only reason I finally scraped together the cash to buy a G4 (mmm
(oh, who am I kidding, I just wanted the toy...)