Cable TV... wait... you said local? If You want local channels only (which defeats the primary purpose of cable television), I'd suggest you use an antenna. And that comes down to a cost of $0 per month.
heh, and what if you actually want to watch television? i used to live 40 miles from NYC, entirely across water (you can see the skyline from my backyard) and even with a massive antenna on the roof we got 8 channels, 4 of which were close to watchable. In the area where i now go to school (outside of albany, NY) an antenna will get you 4 channels, none of which are watchable. this has been the condition of broadcast TV in every section of the US that i have been to (a section of almost every state)
so i ask you, where the hell do you live that you can watch broadcast TV?
Furthermore - what about all the states that DON'T let you opt out of having your SSN on your license.
as has been pointed out, it's against federal law for anyone to use your social security number as a form of identification if you ask them not to. i know that my school (rpi) was forced to re-issue all ID cards because the old ones had SSN's on them.
NY has had the 6 point system for at least 5 years, probably much longer. it was also always the case that you couldn't reach the 6 point level without a passport, Birth certificate, military ID or an out of state drivers license. sept. 11 had nothing to do with that at all.
as a webmaster/admin of a site (aimster.com) that's been slashdotted in the past, it's not much of a problem if you're on anything fatter than a dsl or a cable line.
even though it is in canada, i'm fairly sure AOL time/warner gives it's own magazine enough bandwidth to handle a bunch of people hitting a lowres image on the front page. i' be suprised if they even noticed. i know we didn't.
not to mention the story didn't exactly come out in prime time for slashdot (which would be 9-5 on a weekday in any of the US's time zones)
So? Instead of de-supporting the product, they could say "after this date, you must have a paid support contract if you wish to have any support whatsoever", then charge enough for those contracts that they make a profit on it.
you've never called microsoft for support, have you? even for an OS you just purchaced, support is done through an outrageously expensive 1-900 number. every support contract with microsoft is a paid support contract.
>I do not mean to be offensive here, but Windows
>actually has this one solved really well. I know
>on the LINUX platform this is an absolute mess and
>pain in the butt.
you're not being offensive, just ignorant. you hilight whatever you want to copy and center-click to paste. it's exactly the same across all apps and even in console. i wish that MS would copy this functionality in windows because the way windows is currently is a complete mess.
this is a little perl script i found a while ago that spiders the for-pay search engines (the ones that charge advertisers per click-through) for "bulk mail" and simulates clicking on all of 'em. i have 6 or 7 machines doing this once an hour, which costs the advertiser about $500 a day.:-)
>Sounds like you're advocating security through >obscurity
umm.. the real world isn't the internet. script kiddies can bang away on a server for hours and get nowhere if it's configured right, so they should be able to get their hands on exploits. However there's no way to remove all physical "exploits" in a building or a resevior. a real-life script kiddie gets their hands on C-4 or small pox, and there's no way to properly defend against that. the best solution is to keep that information secret, and hope it doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
all the thinkpad t-series laptops have built in 10/100 nics.
anyway, another choice would be a doublesize pc-card nic. I have a thinkpad 600e and i use a xircom realport card.. no dongles whatsoever, and it works wonderfully under linux.
You are talking about backporting, etc, using _source_ packages aren't you? If you nab a binary package from another branch, then you will break your system. Period. It might not appear broken but it definetly will be somewhere.
not quite. you just cp/etc/apt/sources.list.unstable to/etc/apt/sources.list, install the app and all it's dependencies from that branch, and then cp/etc/apt/sources.list.stable to/etc/apt/sources.list everything will work as expected.
freebsd's package system in the most recent build (4.4 ?)is also horribly broken (in the words of a friend of mine who is a freebsd comitter). it took it over 2 hours to install the gnome packages alone because of the broken dependency checking. this system somehow made it into a shipping build.
i'm pretty sure that he meant the current economic downturn and high unemployment rates, not the fact that the US has a capitalist economy, you stupid fuck.
you obviously haven't used a debian system with apt, or you're talking out of your ass. I run Woody on 4 different machines, and apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgade is all the maintence i ever do. I've never had an issue with a debian package, i don't see how a package with issues could even make it into apt, and if it did, it would be pulled rather quickly. redhat 7.2 maybe up to date now, but what happens in a year when you've got 45 apps with local root exploits and some broken cgi ends up giving your 6 server farm away to a kid in malaysia. With debian, I never have to worry about that.
i don't know what you're doing to that poor machine, but i have a 366 mhz laptop with 128 megs of ram and i can do all of those things under linus' 2.4.12 just fine. I play video under avifile instead of mplayer, but I never lose a frame, even across 10 mbit ethernet.
some people actually like those features, especially auto-preview. the problem with outlook is that every other client does auto-preview (or tons of other outlook niceities that also happen to be security holes) properly. why can't outlook?
i've never heard anyone tell me "disable auto-preview in mutt! it will excute arbitrary shell code as root"
I didn't know that. You learn something new everyday, eh? Is it a regional thing then? Like it's only pronounced 'rowt' up north, for example
umm.. i've been to almost every part of the US, and although i don't usually ask people to pronounce certain things to make fun of their accent, i have never heard anyone pronounce route (as in the roads) as 'rowt'. it's 'root' for roads, 'rowt' for the machines that handle packets.
Network Solutions/Verisign are indeed very horrible companies. to the best of my knowledge, they are run by a group of circus monkeys that ate paint chips as young monkeys or something. luckily, you don't have to deal with them anymore (atleast not for domain names). check out http://www.joker.com/ or any other registrar on corenic.org.
gives you:
(12:47PM)derf@zeus%
on the left and:
~
on the right. plus, if you colorize the underlines systemwide, you can use the same.zshrc on any machine and have different colors.
well, road runner == AOL/TimeWarner (warner bro's cartoons, roadrunner/coyote, get it?) so that's not much of a competition, is it? Anyway, @home is only in areas where rr.com isn't, so it's not much competiton at all.
luckily roadrunner is still pretty decent even after AOL took it over, so hopefully they'll keep the two seperate for a bit longer.
...and about almost any other _decent_ mailers, is that you can not edit/read more than one message in the same time. Heck, if you want to edit one message and read another (to copy/paste text, for instance), you can't. You have to exit editing, read the other message, and come back.
try ctrl-O. (in pine) you can postpone as many messages as you'd like, and jump back and forth between them with simple keyboard shortcuts.
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you've been awfully vocal about your distaste for orbz and other spam blocking filters.. i wonder why. could it be that you write spam software?
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/software.html
honestly, orbz is not a system that's forced on people. it's used by a group of people who can't stand getting 100 pieces of crap in their inbox everyday, all from open relay mail servers. when my mailserver moved over to maps/orbs, the flow of unsolicited email decreased to a bit under one a week. i got zero complaints from people who said they couldn't send me email. i think that's pretty effective.
ehh, no. aimster has its own network. the only thing it gets from aol is a list of screennames, which it matches to aimster names. that way you know which of your friends has aimster.
aimster doesn't "piggyback" on anything. it has its own (large) network of servers, and doesn't rely on aol at all.
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Cable TV... wait... you said local? If You want local channels only (which defeats the primary purpose of cable television), I'd suggest you use an antenna. And that comes down to a cost of $0 per month.
heh, and what if you actually want to watch television? i used to live 40 miles from NYC, entirely across water (you can see the skyline from my backyard) and even with a massive antenna on the roof we got 8 channels, 4 of which were close to watchable. In the area where i now go to school (outside of albany, NY) an antenna will get you 4 channels, none of which are watchable. this has been the condition of broadcast TV in every section of the US that i have been to (a section of almost every state)
so i ask you, where the hell do you live that you can watch broadcast TV?
Furthermore - what about all the states that DON'T let you opt out of having your SSN on your license.
as has been pointed out, it's against federal law for anyone to use your social security number as a form of identification if you ask them not to. i know that my school (rpi) was forced to re-issue all ID cards because the old ones had SSN's on them.
NY has had the 6 point system for at least 5 years, probably much longer. it was also always the case that you couldn't reach the 6 point level without a passport, Birth certificate, military ID or an out of state drivers license. sept. 11 had nothing to do with that at all.
as a webmaster/admin of a site (aimster.com) that's been slashdotted in the past, it's not much of a problem if you're on anything fatter than a dsl or a cable line.
even though it is in canada, i'm fairly sure AOL time/warner gives it's own magazine enough bandwidth to handle a bunch of people hitting a lowres image on the front page. i' be suprised if they even noticed. i know we didn't.
not to mention the story didn't exactly come out in prime time for slashdot (which would be 9-5 on a weekday in any of the US's time zones)
a minor correction, the study was by mindcraft, not by netcraft. netcraft is usually very honest in its studies.
>But I can safely say, nobody has EVER mentioned
>"national pride" as the reason Linux is superior.
well, the article did. maybe you should have read it.
So? Instead of de-supporting the product, they could say "after this date, you must have a paid support contract if you wish to have any support whatsoever", then charge enough for those contracts that they make a profit on it.
you've never called microsoft for support, have you? even for an OS you just purchaced, support is done through an outrageously expensive 1-900 number. every support contract with microsoft is a paid support contract.
>I do not mean to be offensive here, but Windows
>actually has this one solved really well. I know
>on the LINUX platform this is an absolute mess and
>pain in the butt.
you're not being offensive, just ignorant. you hilight whatever you want to copy and center-click to paste. it's exactly the same across all apps and even in console. i wish that MS would copy this functionality in windows because the way windows is currently is a complete mess.
this is a little perl script i found a while ago that spiders the for-pay search engines (the ones that charge advertisers per click-through) for "bulk mail" and simulates clicking on all of 'em. :-)
i have 6 or 7 machines doing this once an hour, which costs the advertiser about $500 a day.
>Sounds like you're advocating security through >obscurity
umm.. the real world isn't the internet. script kiddies can bang away on a server for hours and get nowhere if it's configured right, so they should be able to get their hands on exploits. However there's no way to remove all physical "exploits" in a building or a resevior. a real-life script kiddie gets their hands on C-4 or small pox, and there's no way to properly defend against that. the best solution is to keep that information secret, and hope it doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
all the thinkpad t-series laptops have built in 10/100 nics.
anyway, another choice would be a doublesize pc-card nic. I have a thinkpad 600e and i use a xircom realport card.. no dongles whatsoever, and it works wonderfully under linux.
You are talking about backporting, etc, using _source_ packages aren't you? If you nab a binary package from another branch, then you will break your system. Period. It might not appear broken but it definetly will be somewhere.
/etc/apt/sources.list.unstable to /etc/apt/sources.list, install the app and all it's dependencies from that branch, and then cp /etc/apt/sources.list.stable to /etc/apt/sources.list everything will work as expected.
not quite. you just cp
freebsd's package system in the most recent build (4.4 ?)is also horribly broken (in the words of a friend of mine who is a freebsd comitter). it took it over 2 hours to install the gnome packages alone because of the broken dependency checking. this system somehow made it into a shipping build.
i'm pretty sure that he meant the current economic downturn and high unemployment rates, not the fact that the US has a capitalist economy, you stupid fuck.
you obviously haven't used a debian system with apt, or you're talking out of your ass. I run Woody on 4 different machines, and apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgade is all the maintence i ever do. I've never had an issue with a debian package, i don't see how a package with issues could even make it into apt, and if it did, it would be pulled rather quickly. redhat 7.2 maybe up to date now, but what happens in a year when you've got 45 apps with local root exploits and some broken cgi ends up giving your 6 server farm away to a kid in malaysia. With debian, I never have to worry about that.
optimum online is a service of cablevision, not time warner. optimum online has no affiliation with roadrunner.
optimum online isn't much better than timewarner as far as tech support is concerned, however.
i don't know what you're doing to that poor machine, but i have a 366 mhz laptop with 128 megs of ram and i can do all of those things under linus' 2.4.12 just fine. I play video under avifile instead of mplayer, but I never lose a frame, even across 10 mbit ethernet.
some people actually like those features, especially auto-preview. the problem with outlook is that every other client does auto-preview (or tons of other outlook niceities that also happen to be security holes) properly. why can't outlook?
i've never heard anyone tell me "disable auto-preview in mutt! it will excute arbitrary shell code as root"
I didn't know that. You learn something new everyday, eh? Is it a regional thing then? Like it's only pronounced 'rowt' up north, for example
umm.. i've been to almost every part of the US, and although i don't usually ask people to pronounce certain things to make fun of their accent, i have never heard anyone pronounce route (as in the roads) as 'rowt'. it's 'root' for roads, 'rowt' for the machines that handle packets.
Network Solutions/Verisign are indeed very horrible companies. to the best of my knowledge, they are run by a group of circus monkeys that ate paint chips as young monkeys or something. luckily, you don't have to deal with them anymore (atleast not for domain names). check out http://www.joker.com/ or any other registrar on corenic.org.
PROMPT='(%B%U%t%u%b)%B%n%b@%U%m%u%# '
.zshrc on any machine and have different colors.
RPROMPT=' %B%U%~%u%b'
gives you:
(12:47PM)derf@zeus%
on the left and:
~
on the right. plus, if you colorize the underlines systemwide, you can use the same
mmmm... zsh
well, road runner == AOL/TimeWarner (warner bro's cartoons, roadrunner/coyote, get it?) so that's not much of a competition, is it? Anyway, @home is only in areas where rr.com isn't, so it's not much competiton at all.
luckily roadrunner is still pretty decent even after AOL took it over, so hopefully they'll keep the two seperate for a bit longer.
...and about almost any other _decent_ mailers, is that you can not edit/read more than one message in the same time. Heck, if you want to edit one message and read another (to copy/paste text, for instance), you can't. You have to exit editing, read the other message, and come back.
try ctrl-O. (in pine) you can postpone as many messages as you'd like, and jump back and forth between them with simple keyboard shortcuts.
you've been awfully vocal about your distaste for orbz and other spam blocking filters.. i wonder why. could it be that you write spam software?
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/software.html
honestly, orbz is not a system that's forced on people. it's used by a group of people who can't stand getting 100 pieces of crap in their inbox everyday, all from open relay mail servers. when my mailserver moved over to maps/orbs, the flow of unsolicited email decreased to a bit under one a week. i got zero complaints from people who said they couldn't send me email. i think that's pretty effective.
ehh, no. aimster has its own network. the only thing it gets from aol is a list of screennames, which it matches to aimster names. that way you know which of your friends has aimster. aimster doesn't "piggyback" on anything. it has its own (large) network of servers, and doesn't rely on aol at all.
actually, it does.. http://freshmeat.net/projects/openmerchant/