nice. i decided on the same binding for the same reasons within a few hours of first using screen, and never looked back. one other nice thing: in those rare instances when you're working on some machine without screen, it rarely if ever hurts that you hit C-z twice automatically when you want to suspend something.
life before screen... hard to imagine. it's part of my middling complex.profile on any machine i use regularly, with a three-second pause just in case i want to hit C-c if something's buggy. i never do.
watching the immediate dissolution of sensible discourse with one terrorist attack on this continent, and the sensationalistic, context-free coverage of news corps like cnn, i very much fear for the world in the coming years. a week ago, it seemed unthinkable that we would be on the brink of war. now, it seems more or less inevitable.
and please, if you've found any others, please post them here!
note, i'm certainly not saying that the perpetrators of this attack should be allowed to go free. any terrorist group must be removed from circulation. but bombing afghanistan will only increase the cycle of violence; if not today, then tomorrow when we can even less afford it. and do we really want to see even more innocent people suffer? whether on this continent or another, it's all the same thing...
my own experience was working with a smallish vancouver business-oriented isp; we catered to the business community with customised services and solutions. i was the `solutions department', i.e. programmer. though, this being a small isp, of course i started off doing tech support.;)
over a year ago the company was bought out by one of our customers, who wanted to build an isp facet to their business. from the start, the new management was indifferent at best. they were obviously intent on becoming a large corporation, and that focus was all wrong for the way we (the original isp) did business. however, we managed to remain mostly autonomous for quite a while, and things were not bad.
then, another isp - based in ontario - that the parent company had also bought out, started taking over our operations, and in fact the president of that company became president of the parent. at that point, things began *very* rapidly going downhill. this was a larger provider who had built their own business with a commodity approach.. which they immediately tried to force on us. they offer packages, and nothing outside of packages. and to tell the truth, the packages are not very good; i was unable to get most of the sites i'd worked on, with any kind of complexity to them, to work on the new isp's servers.
now all the technical staff has left. i left specifically because the commodity isp had literally no idea what to do with me; my forte is custom solutions and i just didn't fit their modus operandi. i also left for the same other reasons as everyone else, which boils down to the fact that we were unable to keep customers happy in light of what was going on, and we had no resources to draw on to make things happen, as no one at the new parent company ever seemed to listen to us *at all*. it's incredibly discouraging to work in that sort of environment; also, to be someone who cares about whether or not the customer's needs are met, and to be totally incapable of seeing to that.
and now, all their customers with any sort of needs above the extremely basic are running out the door. they're unable to get any sort of support. before i left, i talked to one of the managers of the original parent company, who even *stated* baldly that they didn't mind losing the customers who didn't fit into the new scheme.
this, to me, is the corporate (or, corporate wannabe) experience. now i do everything i can to avoid it. i think we as a society *need* to learn the limitations of corporatisation, and we need to learn them *soon*. i've been an avid reader of science fiction all my life, and one theme that's been pretty prevalent in many novels and stories is that of the future mega-corporations that control everyday life. with that background reading, current developments take on a very sinister tinge. it saddens me that most of the world seems simply to accept that's going on.
Moderate this one up! This person also emailed me directly (I'm the author of the article) and the CSS workaround works perfectly. I'm also glad to hear TD are actually doing something about it... i'd l ike to get in on this beta site myself.
Now if only we could get them to rewrite the damned thing so that all the processing is done server-side we'd really be getting somewhere. I still say i ought to be able to do my banking in an ssl-compatible text-mode browser...
does anyone have any thoughts on the various ad filtering proxies out there? i've tried adzapper, which was quite nice but seemed to drop requests from my browser or something every so often, so that the browser would just sit there churning its wheels; i've tried cut the crap but it didn't seem to perform too well, and i've tried various others that just didn't quite seem up to snuff in various ways.
to anyone who thinks i'm cheating them out of much-needed revenue, just imagine i'm using lynx. which i do half the time (not now). lynx is nice - no ads, no distracting blinking graphics... all of which have their places, but most of the time they're just annoyances.
the thing i hate most about doubleclick and other ad sites like it is the fact that my browser has to make another connexion to their servers, and quite often they seem to be slower than the site i'm visiting. hm, not to mention all those port scans they do to my echo port, which they've told me is to determine which server will serve the ads to me most quickly.. not that it seems to work...
if you write the date as DD-MM-YYYY (which i hold makes a lot more sense than MM/DD/YYYY anyway) and strip that down to DDMMYYYY, i.e. 19111999, then you *do* get a prime number!
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nice. i decided on the same binding for the same reasons within a few hours of first using screen, and never looked back. one other nice thing: in those rare instances when you're working on some machine without screen, it rarely if ever hurts that you hit C-z twice automatically when you want to suspend something.
.profile on any machine i use regularly, with a three-second pause just in case i want to hit C-c if something's buggy. i never do.
life before screen... hard to imagine. it's part of my middling complex
those who feel, like me, that a non-violent response makes sense, might be interested in this petition for a non-violent response.
and please, if you've found any others, please post them here!
note, i'm certainly not saying that the perpetrators of this attack should be allowed to go free. any terrorist group must be removed from circulation. but bombing afghanistan will only increase the cycle of violence; if not today, then tomorrow when we can even less afford it. and do we really want to see even more innocent people suffer? whether on this continent or another, it's all the same thing...
my own experience was working with a smallish vancouver business-oriented isp; we catered to the business community with customised services and solutions. i was the `solutions department', i.e. programmer. though, this being a small isp, of course i started off doing tech support. ;)
over a year ago the company was bought out by one of our customers, who wanted to build an isp facet to their business. from the start, the new management was indifferent at best. they were obviously intent on becoming a large corporation, and that focus was all wrong for the way we (the original isp) did business. however, we managed to remain mostly autonomous for quite a while, and things were not bad.
then, another isp - based in ontario - that the parent company had also bought out, started taking over our operations, and in fact the president of that company became president of the parent. at that point, things began *very* rapidly going downhill. this was a larger provider who had built their own business with a commodity approach.. which they immediately tried to force on us. they offer packages, and nothing outside of packages. and to tell the truth, the packages are not very good; i was unable to get most of the sites i'd worked on, with any kind of complexity to them, to work on the new isp's servers.
now all the technical staff has left. i left specifically because the commodity isp had literally no idea what to do with me; my forte is custom solutions and i just didn't fit their modus operandi. i also left for the same other reasons as everyone else, which boils down to the fact that we were unable to keep customers happy in light of what was going on, and we had no resources to draw on to make things happen, as no one at the new parent company ever seemed to listen to us *at all*. it's incredibly discouraging to work in that sort of environment; also, to be someone who cares about whether or not the customer's needs are met, and to be totally incapable of seeing to that.
and now, all their customers with any sort of needs above the extremely basic are running out the door. they're unable to get any sort of support. before i left, i talked to one of the managers of the original parent company, who even *stated* baldly that they didn't mind losing the customers who didn't fit into the new scheme.
this, to me, is the corporate (or, corporate wannabe) experience. now i do everything i can to avoid it. i think we as a society *need* to learn the limitations of corporatisation, and we need to learn them *soon*. i've been an avid reader of science fiction all my life, and one theme that's been pretty prevalent in many novels and stories is that of the future mega-corporations that control everyday life. with that background reading, current developments take on a very sinister tinge. it saddens me that most of the world seems simply to accept that's going on.
Moderate this one up! This person also emailed me directly (I'm the author of the article) and the CSS workaround works perfectly. I'm also glad to hear TD are actually doing something about it... i'd l ike to get in on this beta site myself.
Now if only we could get them to rewrite the damned thing so that all the processing is done server-side we'd really be getting somewhere. I still say i ought to be able to do my banking in an ssl-compatible text-mode browser...
does anyone have any thoughts on the various ad filtering proxies out there? i've tried adzapper, which was quite nice but seemed to drop requests from my browser or something every so often, so that the browser would just sit there churning its wheels; i've tried cut the crap but it didn't seem to perform too well, and i've tried various others that just didn't quite seem up to snuff in various ways.
to anyone who thinks i'm cheating them out of much-needed revenue, just imagine i'm using lynx. which i do half the time (not now). lynx is nice - no ads, no distracting blinking graphics... all of which have their places, but most of the time they're just annoyances.
the thing i hate most about doubleclick and other ad sites like it is the fact that my browser has to make another connexion to their servers, and quite often they seem to be slower than the site i'm visiting. hm, not to mention all those port scans they do to my echo port, which they've told me is to determine which server will serve the ads to me most quickly.. not that it seems to work...
ah, BUT -
if you write the date as DD-MM-YYYY (which i hold makes a lot more sense than MM/DD/YYYY anyway) and strip that down to DDMMYYYY, i.e. 19111999, then you *do* get a prime number!
unfortunately YYYY-MM-DD doesn't work...
hey... we pony-tailed vegetarian hackers might just have to take (mock) offence... hmph!
;)
and nothing beats liquorice tea on a cold day. except of course the excess heat of various computer components doing their thing.