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...I definitely recommend it, especially if you are a *nix user, as I have encountered no problems at all with it in that respect.
Being able to flash it from Linux was the deciding factor when I bought the NEC ND-3540A. See http://binflash.cdfreaks.com/
Never had the the chance to try it since the drive went dead after less than 4 months, having burned less than 10 discs in total. Perhaps it died from underuse? Well...
I see this hyped all the time, but do people really use their laptops for serious gaming?
Yes. I believe that Notebook sales already have surpassed desktops PC's in many countries. In a not so distant future, notebook computers will constitute the wast majority of computers in peoples home.
Besides, even desktop PC's will soon use 2.5" "notebook" hard discs, instead of 3.5" discs. Of course there will be a transition period, but PC hardware will continue to shrink in size. (full height 5.25" SCSI drives, oh what sound they made when starting.)
On War overrated? No way! Also it is not a work of military history, but of military theory. And yes, I have read it.
Well, I still claim it is overrated, so lets agree on disagreeing abouts its value. I will however point to Keagans arguments about Vom Kriege if you are interested in an opinion contrary to yours. I am impressed(1) if you have read the 4 tome unabridged version, its dialectism, and, excuse me, its pseudo-scientific use of terms such as friction, makes it a hard read. I know it is supposed to be theory, though it probably has more value as a historical work. I do think that Vom Kriege can easily be categorized as a historical work, a work of military theory, and as a work of military history, especially considering its subject.
(1) Am am less impressed if you are an officer, since it - overrated or not - seems to be standard curriculum for officers.
The real problem is the establishment which keeps pushing on children works which are almost written in a foreign language, because they have this weird idea that literature is somehow like some sort of refined spirit which needs to be left to mature in oaken casks for a couple of centuries before it's any good.
Note how the "establishment" only pushes books that it itself consider first class works. Would you feel better if the "establishment" cleaned the school curriculum from all "hard to read" books since they were too good for the common man to read, and that the unwashed masses only should be allowed to read simple and easy books that suited their simple, unaspiring minds?
I mean there were developed as entertainment and phillosophical points of view, but they don't really have much to teach us other than the authors point of view and perhaps a perspective of the world they lived in.
I am sorry that you gained so little knowledge about literature while in school. This is not the place to rectify this, but let me tell you this: you know nothing about love, that you didn't learn from reading a book. OK, maybe you don't read that much (about love), but believe me, others do and did, and their reading shapes your culture and therefore your mind. This isn't really up for discussion, since it is how the world really works.
Take Shakespear from example... I mean his works were specifically devolped to entertain an live audience of his era with comeday and tragedy and frankly the only reason we study him because he was most likely the only one to do it at his time.
"likely"? I do think you are guessing here, and you are guessing wrong! Besides, I find it unlikely that Shakespear worked that hard just to produce some "entertainment", much less would have sufficed.
Unless of course there were other play writers that just wrote heaping mounds of dog poo and English Parliment locked them up in the tower and burned their plays that we don't know about...
If you actually read a chapter of literary history, you would know how wrong you are. Eg. Ben Jonsons plays were at least as popular (if not more) as Shakespears. I actually prefer the later Moliere and Holberg, especially Holberg since he is so funny.
As far as works that people should read as something they should get value of... I'd recommend Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, Dante, Friedrich Nietzsche, or some other off the wall phillosopher rather than these people who wrote for entertainment value.
Come on, I simply refuse to believe that you have read Clausewitz' "Vom Kriege". It is dull, boring, and wastly overrated. If you are interested in military history, or what war is, then read modern scholars like J. Keagan and J. Ellis. I wholeheartedly disrecommend Clausewitz to anybody.
Actually, there is evidence that Stalin was planning an attack on Germany, but Hitler beat him to it (by just a few weeks). So they were both backstabbing pricks (which isn't really much of a surprise).
Actually there is zero evidence showing that the USSR was planning an attack on Germany. Somebody once wrote a book claiming what your saying, but scores of military historians has failed to find anything that could support that thesis. OTOH there is tons of archives supporting the thesis, that the USSR did not have any immediate plans for an attack of Germany, and that the German attack came as a surprise.
Now, I'm not saying they DIDN'T do it, it sounds like something a business would do. But this piece of "journalism" is not enough to condemn Microsoft for anything. That is by far the poorest execuse for a news article I've ever seen and nothing in it should be taken as fact.
Fair enough, but I can assure this story is the real deal. Your danish is perhaps a little rusty, but here are some links anyway:
It is worth noting, that the source for the story, is none other than Microsofts chief lawyer in Danmark, Marianne Wier, who was present at the meeting between Bill Gates and the danish Prime Minister Anders F. Rasmussen.
Since when DDoS attacks are considered as hacking?
Neither the article (BBC), nor the Slashdot headline says so. However, both claim that hackers are _using_ DDoS attacks. Since the coordinated DDoS'ing seems to originate from from thousends of compromised zombie PC's, I think it is fair call those that compromised these zombie machines for hackers.
Any software application that basically required a function key explanation chart at the top of every keyboard was doomed when GUI took hold.
So many Slashdotters have the same experience with WP 5.1 as you do, which make me believe that they never actually used the product to any serious extent: WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS had a GUI (ncurses based, but never the less a GUI.). WP 5.x had a menubar and drop down menus, and it could be controlled 100% by the mouse. One never needed to remember a single friggin keyboard shortcut. The function key overlay was for you convenience, it was never a necessary thing.
IMHO the most important aspect of an auto-ripper, is its error-handling: what happens if a CD is too scratched to rip? How should it react if someone tries to rip the exact same CD? make a new rip with another name ? silently overwrite the old rip? etc.
What encoding procedure do you use? And do you know how to change the bitrate settings for whatever that encoding program is that's embedded in Konqueror?
Try type "kcontrol" in a terminal. Choose "Sound & Multimedia" -> "Audio CD's -> "Ogg Vorbis settings". Choose 'Bitrate based' Encoding Method, if you want to set a hard minimum and maximum bitrate.
The capture of the enigmas was a big step towards breaking them, both by the Polish cryptographers before WWII as well as by Blechtley Park in the UK.
That is not the point. The point is that the Germans were paying close attention to Kerckhoffs principles in the design of the Enigma. The strength of the Enigma relied on secrecy of the keys not in keeping the Enigma machine a secret.
The primary reason that the Enigma was broken was because of bad German procedures and sloppy use of the machine. Had the Germans made better procedures for the use of the Enigma and been less sloppy with its use, it is highly improbable that the allies would broken the Enigma cipher, no matter how many Enigma machines and code wheels they captured.
Kerckhoffs might have been the first to say it, but in practice nobody paid attention until PKC became a reality. Don't believe me? Look at the Enigma and DES, both of which used security through obscurity (in the case of the enigma, the entire encrypting device was secret, in DES the content of the S-boxes was classified).
I don't know about DES, but I can assure you that Kerckhoffs principles were primary design parameters for the German development of the Enigma or any other important German ciphermachines like the (more important) SZ/42. The German Heer counted on, that its enemies would/could have full knowledge about how the Enigma machine worked. And with more than 100.000 Enigmas build and issued to even low level units it was reasonable assumption to make.
An obscure reference; Kerckhoff along with the use of different ciphersystems during World War One is mentionend in Jaroslav Haseks classic novel "The Good Soldier Svejk". Yet another reason to read this fantastic book.
Ktouch is part of KDE. Quite good actually, but I don't know gtypist so I can't say if it is better. I still can't touch type. The problem is that in the beginning when learning touch typing, I type much slower than my homebrew hunt-and-peck system. I don't seem to have the discipline (yet) to continue to use my touch typing skills until I can reach an acceptable speed. Still, give Ktouch a try. No matter what, you will become a faster typist, even if you don't bother to master touch typing.
This is not a documentary! Please review the definition of a documentary.
Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film.
I do wonder from what scholarly work you got that definition of "documentary"? Anyway, it is wrong. Historically a lot of documentaries has been "politically biased" since they were meant to change things. Eg. a documentary about appalling working-conditions among emigrants, is not meant to entertain you, but to change you, and make you apply political pressure to change the situation.
No matter what, remember to cool your RAID array adequately. Stacking a lot of hot harddisks on top of each other in a cramped minitower can lead to frequent drive losses.
The cheapest and most simple RAID setup for a personal fileserver is to have the data and the OS on separate disks, where only the data disks are mirrored, using software RAID 1. The reason for this setup is that booting from and RAID array can become tricky if one of the bootdisks misbehaves, unless we are talking serious (not cheap) RAID controllers.
This setup is not the best with regard to server uptime, since the OS disk isn't mirrored, and the OS therefore needs to be reinstalled if the disk dies. OTOH, it is fast and reliably when it comes to protecting the data, while still being cheap and easy to maintain. And I assume that data protection is more important than server uptime, since you say:
My goals are to build a file server that can live through a drive failure with no loss of data, and will be easy to rebuild.
You probably want to use a IDE channel per disk, since using having to drives on the same channel/cable (using slaves) kills performance. But a simple PCI IDE controller is cheap.
So, who's the National Retail Foundation and why does their opinion matter?
First of all, this trade association (NRF) is huge. Trade associations usually have lots of lobbyists and good political connections. I guess that allmost all laws regarding retail in the US has a NFR fingerprint on it.
Trade associations are also powerfull because they have the "ear" of the trademembers. Their members actually read the trade rags, and act passionately about trade issues. So if a trade association harps on an issue, they can be very influential, especially on the long run.
But usually trade associations are quite conservative, caring only about things that concerns their trade. So a press release like this means that NFR thinks Linux is important for their members, and that SCO are trying to screw NFR members. If I remember correctly, SCO has a lot of their business in retail. So SCO has now pissed off a huge, politically powerfull organization that has direct influence on an important part of SCO's costumers.
So I've been scouring Epson's site, and I can't seem to find the driver software for the MX-70 printer anywhere. And office depo doesn't even have the print heads in stock. What gives?
You didn't look hard enough. www.epson.com not only have drivers for the MX-70 Impact Printer, you can also get the manual in PDF format. CUPS for Linux has native support for the MX-80. And yes ribbons for the MX-70 are readily available.
seriously though, I wonder what would happen if you were to call Epson tech support about a problem with your TRS-80 and the MX-70 printer.
Epson still offers support for the MX-70 and MX-80 printers.
When I saw that WordPerfect for Linux was available I grabbed my wallet for my credit card. I clicked the "buy now", only to see that Corel only sell to US or Canadian billing addresses. That sucks since I live in the EU.
I guess that there will be a lot of people here on/., that will write comments on "how it is to late for Corel", or "Why bother, OO.org is free", or "reveal codes is overrated / not necessary in a modern Word processor" or "I write everything in ed - the standard editor, so you should do too"
Well I disagree with all that. I want my WP for Linux.
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Maybe it is just a delayed Aprils fool, but I would buy a native Linux version af WP the second it was released. My whish list would something like this: It should be based on WP 12 (only for the editor tracking features) QT-based to look good. Aspell, so minor languages can get a decent spelling control. CUPS for printing.
This is being moderated as funny but I think active posters are generally too young to realize what great software WP5.1 is. You had to memorize shortcuts (or use some paper cutouts as reminders) but you learned those quickly and productivity was excellent.
No, no, no! WP5.1 for DOS had full CUA-style menubar, with sub-menus/drop-down curtains for every one of its functions. You could use the mouse for everything. I even think that the WP4.x series was mouse-driven.
However, the menubar wasn't visible with the default install. You had to to go "File" -> "Preferences" (using the mouse), or press Shift+F1 to change the behavior of the menubar.
I think most people in those who were introduced to WP5.1, were introduced to using keyboard shortcuts. It just made most sense, since this was the most productive way to work, and DOS wasn't a multitasking GUI environment anyhow.
Our street runs a "community based ISP.". Approx. 320 users on a switched 100 Mbit LAN. We run some Linux servers for standard services like mail, ftp, www, proxy, monitoring, firewall, etc). 19 October last year, we deployed RAV anti-virus from www.ravantivirus.com (now owned by Microsoft, who promptly announced that all RAV anti-virus software for Linux will be terminated).
Since October the 19th, 18.500 email viruses has been detected. Dec 2003: 1700 viruses detected Jan 2004: 3635 "" Feb 2004: 7819 "",just slightly below one virus per day per user. Mar 2004: (per 17 marts) shows a slightly downward trend with 4430 viruses detected (223 per day).
Only 8% of the viruses originate from within our network. 37% are Mydoom viruses 21% are Netsky variants
7% are Mymail viruses
Now, viruses are a problem. Everybody I talk to know to some extent that viruses are "bad". You sometimes read about high profile arrests of virus writers. Fine.
But spyware is IMHO an even bigger problem for a lot of users. They have a hard time understanding the concept, why they got it, and how to get rid of it, and why it seems to be totally legal to plant stealthy spyware on their PC. To me, and the people I explain what spyware is, spyware is hacking (cracking) in its most criminal sense, since the spying are done for clearly economic reasons.
If spyware were manufactured by pimple faced teenagers for no economic reason, I am sure they would be busted by the police as evil hackers. But since spyware hacking are made by so called businesses, it seems to be a totally OK practice by politicians and law enforcement agencies.
If you're using styles correctly, you'll never need anything resembling "reveal codes" to fix your formatting problems. If you use the manual formatting functions, you're asking for trouble.
Well, first of all, people don't always use styles correctly, or use manual formatting, or both. To make matters worse, different versions of MS-Word, especially between Mac's and PC's, can fubar a document beyond belief. Since I tend to get such documents, I sometimes salvage them by loading them into WordPerfect, and then use reveal codes to straighten things out. Believe me, in some cases this approach is the best.
I have been using the release candidate from http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/, on Fedora FC-1, since it has native mp3 support.
It is very fast.
I managed to crash Ktouch (Typing tutor program) once, but couldn't reproduce the crash. I haven't found other bugs.
Konqueror now seems to offer integrated spell checking when writing on forums such as slashdot, which is nice, since English is not my native language. I think A-spell is used, so many languages are availably.
The "kde-wallet" is a very nice, and seemingly secure way to store on-line passwords and forms.
Slashdot Mirror
...I definitely recommend it, especially if you are a *nix user, as I have encountered no problems at all with it in that respect.
Being able to flash it from Linux was the deciding factor when I bought the NEC ND-3540A. See http://binflash.cdfreaks.com/
Never had the the chance to try it since the drive went dead after less than 4 months, having burned less than 10 discs in total. Perhaps it died from underuse? Well...
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Regards
I see this hyped all the time, but do people really use their laptops for serious gaming?
Yes. I believe that Notebook sales already have surpassed desktops PC's in many countries. In a not so distant future, notebook computers will constitute the wast majority of computers in peoples home.
Besides, even desktop PC's will soon use 2.5" "notebook" hard discs, instead of 3.5" discs. Of course there will be a transition period, but PC hardware will continue to shrink in size. (full height 5.25" SCSI drives, oh what sound they made when starting.)
--
Regards
On War overrated? No way! Also it is not a work of military history, but of military theory. And yes, I have read it.
Well, I still claim it is overrated, so lets agree on disagreeing abouts its value. I will however point to Keagans arguments about Vom Kriege if you are interested in an opinion contrary to yours. I am impressed(1) if you have read the 4 tome unabridged version, its dialectism, and, excuse me, its pseudo-scientific use of terms such as friction, makes it a hard read.
I know it is supposed to be theory, though it probably has more value as a historical work. I do think that Vom Kriege can easily be categorized as a historical work, a work of military theory, and as a work of military history, especially considering its subject.
(1) Am am less impressed if you are an officer, since it - overrated or not - seems to be standard curriculum for officers.
The real problem is the establishment which keeps pushing on children works which are almost written in a foreign language, because they have this weird idea that literature is somehow like some sort of refined spirit which needs to be left to mature in oaken casks for a couple of centuries before it's any good.
Note how the "establishment" only pushes books that it itself consider first class works. Would you feel better if the "establishment" cleaned the school curriculum from all "hard to read" books since they were too good for the common man to read, and that the unwashed masses only should be allowed to read simple and easy books that suited their simple, unaspiring minds?
I mean there were developed as entertainment and phillosophical points of view, but they don't really have much to teach us other than the authors point of view and perhaps a perspective of the world they lived in.
I am sorry that you gained so little knowledge about literature while in school. This is not the place to rectify this, but let me tell you this: you know nothing about love, that you didn't learn from reading a book. OK, maybe you don't read that much (about love), but believe me, others do and did, and their reading shapes your culture and therefore your mind. This isn't really up for discussion, since it is how the world really works.
Take Shakespear from example... I mean his works were specifically devolped to entertain an live audience of his era with comeday and tragedy and frankly the only reason we study him because he was most likely the only one to do it at his time.
"likely"? I do think you are guessing here, and you are guessing wrong!
Besides, I find it unlikely that Shakespear worked that hard just to produce some "entertainment", much less would have sufficed.
Unless of course there were other play writers that just wrote heaping mounds of dog poo and English Parliment locked them up in the tower and burned their plays that we don't know about...
If you actually read a chapter of literary history, you would know how wrong you are. Eg. Ben Jonsons plays were at least as popular (if not more) as Shakespears. I actually prefer the later Moliere and Holberg, especially Holberg since he is so funny.
As far as works that people should read as something they should get value of... I'd recommend Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, Dante, Friedrich Nietzsche, or some other off the wall phillosopher rather than these people who wrote for entertainment value.
Come on, I simply refuse to believe that you have read Clausewitz' "Vom Kriege". It is dull, boring, and wastly overrated. If you are interested in military history, or what war is, then read modern scholars like J. Keagan and J. Ellis. I wholeheartedly disrecommend Clausewitz to anybody.
Actually, there is evidence that Stalin was planning an attack on Germany, but Hitler beat him to it (by just a few weeks). So they were both backstabbing pricks (which isn't really much of a surprise).
Actually there is zero evidence showing that the USSR was planning an attack on Germany. Somebody once wrote a book claiming what your saying, but scores of military historians has failed to find anything that could support that thesis. OTOH there is tons of archives supporting the thesis, that the USSR did not have any immediate plans for an attack of Germany, and that the German attack came as a surprise.
Now, I'm not saying they DIDN'T do it, it sounds like something a business would do. But this piece of "journalism" is not enough to condemn Microsoft for anything. That is by far the poorest execuse for a news article I've ever seen and nothing in it should be taken as fact.
Fair enough, but I can assure this story is the real deal. Your danish is perhaps a little rusty, but here are some links anyway:
http://www.borsen.dk/dagens-nyheder/?ids[]=70135
http://politiken.dk/
It is worth noting, that the source for the story, is none other than Microsofts chief lawyer in Danmark, Marianne Wier, who was present at the meeting between Bill Gates and the danish Prime Minister Anders F. Rasmussen.
Since when DDoS attacks are considered as hacking?
Neither the article (BBC), nor the Slashdot headline says so. However, both claim that hackers are _using_ DDoS attacks.
Since the coordinated DDoS'ing seems to originate from from thousends of compromised zombie PC's, I think it is fair call those that compromised these zombie machines for hackers.
Any software application that basically required a function key explanation chart at the top of every keyboard was doomed when GUI took hold.
So many Slashdotters have the same experience with WP 5.1 as you do, which make me believe that they never actually used the product to any serious extent:
WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS had a GUI (ncurses based, but never the less a GUI.).
WP 5.x had a menubar and drop down menus, and it could be controlled 100% by the mouse. One never needed to remember a single friggin keyboard shortcut. The function key overlay was for you convenience, it was never a necessary thing.
Personally I use vlorb. Easy to use, lots of features.
http://jk.yazzy.org/projects/vlorb/
Someone else suggested jack, but was to lazy to provide an URL:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/jack/
IMHO the most important aspect of an auto-ripper, is its error-handling: what happens if a CD is too scratched to rip? How should it react if someone tries to rip the exact same CD? make a new rip with another name ? silently overwrite the old rip? etc.
What encoding procedure do you use? And do you know how to change the bitrate settings for whatever that encoding program is that's embedded in Konqueror?
Try type "kcontrol" in a terminal. Choose "Sound & Multimedia" -> "Audio CD's -> "Ogg Vorbis settings".
Choose 'Bitrate based' Encoding Method, if you want to set a hard minimum and maximum bitrate.
I think David Kahns "The Code Breakers" is the best source, but I can't find my copy of it:(
o f_Secrecy.html h 3.htm
_ Enigma
But Simon Sings "Codebook" has something about it. See also
http://www.simonsingh.net/History_of_the_Science_
and
http://www.open2.net/ictportal/comm/security/sing
Also see the section: "Security properties" in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the
The capture of the enigmas was a big step towards breaking them, both by the Polish cryptographers before WWII as well as by Blechtley Park in the UK.
That is not the point. The point is that the Germans were paying close attention to Kerckhoffs principles in the design of the Enigma. The strength of the Enigma relied on secrecy of the keys not in keeping the Enigma machine a secret.
The primary reason that the Enigma was broken was because of bad German procedures and sloppy use of the machine. Had the Germans made better procedures for the use of the Enigma and been less sloppy with its use, it is highly improbable that the allies would broken the Enigma cipher, no matter how many Enigma machines and code wheels they captured.
Kerckhoffs might have been the first to say it, but in practice nobody paid attention until PKC became a reality. Don't believe me? Look at the Enigma and DES, both of which used security through obscurity (in the case of the enigma, the entire encrypting device was secret, in DES the content of the S-boxes was classified).
I don't know about DES, but I can assure you that Kerckhoffs principles were primary design parameters for the German development of the Enigma or any other important German ciphermachines like the (more important) SZ/42. The German Heer counted on, that its enemies would/could have full knowledge about how the Enigma machine worked. And with more than 100.000 Enigmas build and issued to even low level units it was reasonable assumption to make.
An obscure reference; Kerckhoff along with the use of different ciphersystems during World War One is mentionend in Jaroslav Haseks classic novel "The Good Soldier Svejk". Yet another reason to read this fantastic book.
Ktouch is part of KDE. Quite good actually, but I don't know gtypist so I can't say if it is better.
I still can't touch type. The problem is that in the beginning when learning touch typing, I type much slower than my homebrew hunt-and-peck system. I don't seem to have the discipline (yet) to continue to use my touch typing skills until I can reach an acceptable speed.
Still, give Ktouch a try. No matter what, you will become a faster typist, even if you don't bother to master touch typing.
This is not a documentary! Please review the definition of a documentary.
Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film.
I do wonder from what scholarly work you got that definition of "documentary"? Anyway, it is wrong. Historically a lot of documentaries has been "politically biased" since they were meant to change things. Eg. a documentary about appalling working-conditions among emigrants, is not meant to entertain you, but to change you, and make you apply political pressure to change the situation.
No matter what, remember to cool your RAID array adequately. Stacking a lot of hot harddisks on top of each other in a cramped minitower can lead to frequent drive losses.
The cheapest and most simple RAID setup for a personal fileserver is to have the data and the OS on separate disks, where only the data disks are mirrored, using software RAID 1.
The reason for this setup is that booting from and RAID array can become tricky if one of the bootdisks misbehaves, unless we are talking serious (not cheap) RAID controllers.
This setup is not the best with regard to server uptime, since the OS disk isn't mirrored, and the OS therefore needs to be reinstalled if the disk dies. OTOH, it is fast and reliably when it comes to protecting the data, while still being cheap and easy to maintain.
And I assume that data protection is more important than server uptime, since you say:
My goals are to build a file server that can live through a drive failure with no loss of data, and will be easy to rebuild.
You probably want to use a IDE channel per disk, since using having to drives on the same channel/cable (using slaves) kills performance. But a simple PCI IDE controller is cheap.
So, who's the National Retail Foundation and why does their opinion matter?
First of all, this trade association (NRF) is huge.
Trade associations usually have lots of lobbyists and good political connections. I guess that allmost all laws regarding retail in the US has a NFR fingerprint on it.
Trade associations are also powerfull because they have the "ear" of the trademembers. Their members actually read the trade rags, and act passionately about trade issues. So if a trade association harps on an issue, they can be very influential, especially on the long run.
But usually trade associations are quite conservative, caring only about things that concerns their trade. So a press release like this means that NFR thinks Linux is important for their members, and that SCO are trying to screw NFR members. If I remember correctly, SCO has a lot of their business in retail. So SCO has now pissed off a huge, politically powerfull organization that has direct influence on an important part of SCO's costumers.
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So I've been scouring Epson's site, and I can't seem to find the driver software for the MX-70 printer anywhere. And office depo doesn't even have the print heads in stock. What gives?
You didn't look hard enough. www.epson.com not only have drivers for the MX-70 Impact Printer, you can also get the manual in PDF format.
CUPS for Linux has native support for the MX-80.
And yes ribbons for the MX-70 are readily available.
seriously though, I wonder what would happen if you were to call Epson tech support about a problem with your TRS-80 and the MX-70 printer.
Epson still offers support for the MX-70 and MX-80 printers.
When I saw that WordPerfect for Linux was available I grabbed my wallet for my credit card. I clicked the "buy now", only to see that Corel only sell to US or Canadian billing addresses. That sucks since I live in the EU.
/., that will write comments on "how it is to late for Corel", or "Why bother, OO.org is free", or "reveal codes is overrated / not necessary in a modern Word processor" or "I write everything in ed - the standard editor, so you should do too"
I guess that there will be a lot of people here on
Well I disagree with all that. I want my WP for Linux.
-0-
Maybe it is just a delayed Aprils fool, but I would buy a native Linux version af WP the second it was released.
My whish list would something like this:
It should be based on WP 12 (only for the editor tracking features)
QT-based to look good.
Aspell, so minor languages can get a decent spelling control.
CUPS for printing.
Well, one can dream.
This is being moderated as funny but I think active posters are generally too young to realize what great software WP5.1 is. You had to memorize shortcuts (or use some paper cutouts as reminders) but you learned those quickly and productivity was excellent.
No, no, no! WP5.1 for DOS had full CUA-style menubar, with sub-menus/drop-down curtains for every one of its functions. You could use the mouse for everything. I even think that the WP4.x series was mouse-driven.
However, the menubar wasn't visible with the default install. You had to to go "File" -> "Preferences" (using the mouse), or press Shift+F1 to change the behavior of the menubar.
I think most people in those who were introduced to WP5.1, were introduced to using keyboard shortcuts. It just made most sense, since this was the most productive way to work, and DOS wasn't a multitasking GUI environment anyhow.
Regards
Peter H.S.
Our street runs a "community based ISP.". Approx. 320 users on a switched 100 Mbit LAN. We run some Linux servers for standard services like mail, ftp, www, proxy, monitoring, firewall, etc).
19 October last year, we deployed RAV anti-virus from www.ravantivirus.com (now owned by Microsoft, who promptly announced that all RAV anti-virus software for Linux will be terminated).
Since October the 19th, 18.500 email viruses has been detected.
Dec 2003: 1700 viruses detected
Jan 2004: 3635 ""
Feb 2004: 7819 "",just slightly below one virus per day per user.
Mar 2004: (per 17 marts) shows a slightly downward trend with 4430 viruses detected (223 per day).
Only 8% of the viruses originate from within our network.
37% are Mydoom viruses
21% are Netsky variants
7% are Mymail viruses
Now, viruses are a problem. Everybody I talk to know to some extent that viruses are "bad". You sometimes read about high profile arrests of virus writers. Fine.
But spyware is IMHO an even bigger problem for a lot of users. They have a hard time understanding the concept, why they got it, and how to get rid of it, and why it seems to be totally legal to plant stealthy spyware on their PC. To me, and the people I explain what spyware is, spyware is hacking (cracking) in its most criminal sense, since the spying are done for clearly economic reasons.
If spyware were manufactured by pimple faced teenagers for no economic reason, I am sure they would be busted by the police as evil hackers. But since spyware hacking are made by so called businesses, it seems to be a totally OK practice by politicians and law enforcement agencies.
If you're using styles correctly, you'll never need anything resembling "reveal codes" to fix your formatting problems. If you use the manual formatting functions, you're asking for trouble.
Well, first of all, people don't always use styles correctly, or use manual formatting, or both. To make matters worse, different versions of MS-Word, especially between Mac's and PC's, can fubar a document beyond belief.
Since I tend to get such documents, I sometimes salvage them by loading them into WordPerfect, and then use reveal codes to straighten things out. Believe me, in some cases this approach is the best.
I have been using the release candidate from http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/, on Fedora FC-1, since it has native mp3 support.
It is very fast.
I managed to crash Ktouch (Typing tutor program) once, but couldn't reproduce the crash. I haven't found other bugs.
Konqueror now seems to offer integrated spell checking when writing on forums such as slashdot, which is nice, since English is not my native language. I think A-spell is used, so many languages are availably.
The "kde-wallet" is a very nice, and seemingly secure way to store on-line passwords and forms.
All in all, I like it a lot.