It's better not to include the "me" part at all. That means extra work because you have to add to/etc/aliases yourself, whereas you can have the MTA do the + thing for you.
Point of information: I've been doing this whenever a company asks for registration to download their products, use their forums, whatever. In the years I've been doing this, I've never received spam to any of those aliases.
So, it's apparently very rare for reputable companies to use their account database for spamming or to sell addresses to spammers.
I should have been less paranoid about businesses I have some sort of relationship with and more paranoid about where my address appears on the web.
Install the win32 version. Last I tried that, you had to install gtk+ separately so that's not as easy as a double click on an rpm, but it's not rocket science either. A bigger problem is that gtk+ for Windows doesn't have a lot of developer resources (basically a one man show. It has quirks and crash bugs in addition to looking and acting unlike your Windows apps.
Still, if you've got a magazine cover or something mostly complete and then find that your $700 software won't let you add those twenties, one of these options could save your ass.
Much more interesting than SETI@HOME is the SIC@HOME project, the search for incredible coincidences.
A radio tuned to static is used to feed a stream of random data to a soundcard. The data is used to construct an image, and in the incredibly unlikely event that this image matches a predetermined image, you've proven that the universe is infinite!:-)
Don't forget to check out the url of the "What is SIC@HOME?" page.
My MPEG2 decoder card from Creative had the same problem. The manufacturer can say "we can't give you the specs because we don't own the rights". They're not lying, but I don't think they're being completely honest either. The statement implies that they would like to give you what you want, that they're on your side.
That's bullshit.
If they really wanted to their hardware specs to be open, they would not license other people's technology under terms that prohibit that. If they had a historical dependency on such technology, they would negotiate a new license. Is there any indication they even tried to do that? If relicensing didn't work out, they would phase out their dependency on closed technology. Is there any indication they tried that?
If nvidia wanted to satisfy your demand for specs, they would. They haven't, so they don't. Any talk about how they can't do that is just talk.
Personally, I do not expect companies to give out specs to their hardware just because a small portion of their customers wants them to. I also do not expect companies to be truthful or to value their customers. Therefore, I'm not upset when they don't. There's a low grumbling disagreement with the whole situation, but I don't get excited any more. My advice to those who do: lower your expectations to the level of reality. "Jaded", I think you call it. It's easier.
You don't actually have a right to listen to live local music without inhaling carciogens. That would mean someone else had an obligation to provide you with a carciogen-free space in which to do so. Anyone can clearly see that that would be ridiculous:-/
One thing I don't get is why apt doesn't allow something like: apt-get install --file./somepackage.deb
Sometimes you want to install a.deb that doesn't exist in any repository, but depends on packages in Debian. apt-get won't help you, so you use dpkg --install. But dpkg doesn't satisfy dependencies so you have to do it yourself.
It seems to me that apt-get is missing a simple and useful feature. Am I missing something?
Sigurdur Olafsson - We had expected that people would be dedicated with the time they spent in the game but we have numerous examples of players that have gone much further than we expected. We have gotten reports of players that never sleep more than 80 min at a time as that is the time it takes to fill their industrial ship with ore
I started a post about partitioning earlier but found I had so much to say that I'd have to spend more time than I cared to on it.
The condensed version: 1) Unexparienced users can't decide how many partition to use and how much space to give each one. 2) I don't buy the argument that only administrators and system builders should be running installers anyway. It's useful for normal people to be able to install an OS. 3) If normal people install their own OS, they don't do it often. Most installer users will be first-time users, so the first time has to be easy.
Therefore, it is absolutely inexcusable to force users to decide how their disk is partitioned. (And about as inxcusable to not give then the choice if they want to.)
The installer then has the difficult task of picking the right partition sizes on a variety of disk sizes and for a variety of usage patterns. It will fail some of the time, but all in all, I think a developer who is intimately familiar with Debian and can refine his partition sizing routine in future versions based on user feedback will get it right in more cases than the users themselves ever will.
Then again, maybe we should think more about solving the underlying problem instead of helping people work around it. That problem is the finality of the partitioning choice made during installation. Systems grow. Systems are repurposed. The partition table stays the same. I move/var/cache/apt somewhere else and link to it from/var/cache.
We now have advanced filesystems with live-resize features. We have the device mapper. As far as I know, neither Debian nor any other distro enables users below the wizard level to use these features to tweak their partition sizes with confidence and ease. If we could do that, the partitioning phase of installation wouldn't be as daunting as it is.
Robots have to deal with bottomless pits anyway, since not every one of those is mentioned in a robots.txt file. Surely there are enough unmarked pits that an Internet-wide spider would never work at all unless it was quite smart about generated content.
Cheats come in many flavors. Some don't directly influence the control stream at all. The common wallhack for instance.
This means that if you can intercept, decrypt, and understand the communications between the console and the server, you can cheat without running the risk of being flagged by any automatic cheat detector.
If you want to get fancy, you can even imagine a setup that allows you to safely use aimbots too. That requires either a custom controller or a robot that moves the widgets on a standard controller in response to your actions on a second controller (most of the time) or your computer's commands (when you command the aimbot to take over).
Still, I figured if you need to build or buy illegal hardware to cheat, I think the cheat prevention team has kinda won. But after thinking about it some more, maybe not. Regular people have their DVD players modded, gamers have their consoles modded and some are willing to spend a couple of hundred dollars for a controller they think will give them a slight edge (you mostly see that with wheels in racing games) so maybe the idea of a thriving black market for cheat enabling Xbox controllers is not totally out of the question.
Encryption, automatic cheat detection, closed hardware, laws to protect closed hardware. All can cut down on cheating. But I think the other thing you mentioned is much more important:
You're not anonymous. That's the real difference, I think.
Now all you have to worry about is identity theft:-)
I should have known something was up when the message boards went dead.
This is shocking news. 40 tracks per month? I'm going to go from 2000 to 40 at the same price? "Special offer, one for the price of fifty! Don't delay; you might miss out on the deal of a lifetime! We're not going to be around for long, you know!"
I'm trying to keep a perspective on things though. After all, it's not so much that the new terms are a bad deal, but that the old ones were unbelievably good. Impossibly good, in fact.
What remains is a service that sells MP3's encoded with lame --alt-preset standard and no DRM crap at 25 cents per track.
It actually sounds pretty good when you put it like that. But the problem for current subscribers is that it completely changes the way you use the service. Before, EMusic was a grand buffet. You paid the cover and took what you wanted. Now, every download is a purchasing decision.
A wrist drop is the characteristic deformity of a radial nerve lesion.
In order to demonstrate this phenomenon, if not already obvious, direct the patient to flex the elbow and pronate the forearm and ask him to extend the wrist. In a radial nerve injury causing wrist drop a patient will not be able undertake this manoeuvre.
Doctor: Flex your right elbow please.
Patient: <flexes elbow>
Doctor: Good. Now pronate your right forearm.
Patient: <blink>
Doctor: Aha! As I suspected! Yet another case of wrist drop!
I haven't even glanced at the Samba source, but by the sound of things, it's sufficiently organized and decoupled that the post-CIFS, post-NFS network filesystem might just be most easily implemented within the Samba project.
Every now and then, I go looking at the network/distributed filesystems (particularly looking for disconnected operation) and every time I find there's still something majorly wrong with all of them. I can't think of anyone I'd trust more than the Samba team to bring that kind of thing out of the research/toy department into the real world. Not just because they know network filesystems, but because they have all this experience in maintaining a solid product of such great importance to its users.
So I'm hoping that what these guys work on after Samba is...Samba!
To me, Scandinavia is the limp phallus-looking peninsula at the top of globe and doesn't include any islands or even Denmark. Others take a cultural, rather than geographic, view and consider "Scandinavia" to include the islands, Denmark, and maybe Finland, but I call that "The Nordic Countries".
I should say that I'm Icelandic and perhaps comon usage here is unusual. We don't talk much about Scandinavia, it's always "Nordurlond" ("The Nordic Countries").
BTW, what is the meaning of this crap with Slashcode mapping perfectly valid characters like eth and o with umlaut (which I typed above) to the closest ASCII characters?
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Point of information: I've been doing this whenever a company asks for registration to download their products, use their forums, whatever. In the years I've been doing this, I've never received spam to any of those aliases.
So, it's apparently very rare for reputable companies to use their account database for spamming or to sell addresses to spammers.
I should have been less paranoid about businesses I have some sort of relationship with and more paranoid about where my address appears on the web.
Run the GIMP off Knoppix. I think it's included.
Install the win32 version. Last I tried that, you had to install gtk+ separately so that's not as easy as a double click on an rpm, but it's not rocket science either. A bigger problem is that gtk+ for Windows doesn't have a lot of developer resources (basically a one man show. It has quirks and crash bugs in addition to looking and acting unlike your Windows apps.
Still, if you've got a magazine cover or something mostly complete and then find that your $700 software won't let you add those twenties, one of these options could save your ass.
Heh!, that's nothing. I've seen skin care product ads that say the product will make your skin look "68% healthier".
A radio tuned to static is used to feed a stream of random data to a soundcard. The data is used to construct an image, and in the incredibly unlikely event that this image matches a predetermined image, you've proven that the universe is infinite! :-)
Don't forget to check out the url of the "What is SIC@HOME?" page.
That's bullshit.
If they really wanted to their hardware specs to be open, they would not license other people's technology under terms that prohibit that. If they had a historical dependency on such technology, they would negotiate a new license. Is there any indication they even tried to do that? If relicensing didn't work out, they would phase out their dependency on closed technology. Is there any indication they tried that?
If nvidia wanted to satisfy your demand for specs, they would. They haven't, so they don't. Any talk about how they can't do that is just talk.
Personally, I do not expect companies to give out specs to their hardware just because a small portion of their customers wants them to. I also do not expect companies to be truthful or to value their customers. Therefore, I'm not upset when they don't. There's a low grumbling disagreement with the whole situation, but I don't get excited any more. My advice to those who do: lower your expectations to the level of reality. "Jaded", I think you call it. It's easier.
You don't actually have a right to listen to live local music without inhaling carciogens. That would mean someone else had an obligation to provide you with a carciogen-free space in which to do so. Anyone can clearly see that that would be ridiculous :-/
apt-get install --file
Sometimes you want to install a .deb that doesn't exist in any repository, but depends on packages in Debian. apt-get won't help you, so you use dpkg --install. But dpkg doesn't satisfy dependencies so you have to do it yourself.
It seems to me that apt-get is missing a simple and useful feature. Am I missing something?
The people at experts-exchange.com are smarter. They're very very careful to always put something between "experts" and "exchange" :-)
I started a post about partitioning earlier but found I had so much to say that I'd have to spend more time than I cared to on it.
The condensed version: 1) Unexparienced users can't decide how many partition to use and how much space to give each one. 2) I don't buy the argument that only administrators and system builders should be running installers anyway. It's useful for normal people to be able to install an OS. 3) If normal people install their own OS, they don't do it often. Most installer users will be first-time users, so the first time has to be easy.
Therefore, it is absolutely inexcusable to force users to decide how their disk is partitioned. (And about as inxcusable to not give then the choice if they want to.)
The installer then has the difficult task of picking the right partition sizes on a variety of disk sizes and for a variety of usage patterns. It will fail some of the time, but all in all, I think a developer who is intimately familiar with Debian and can refine his partition sizing routine in future versions based on user feedback will get it right in more cases than the users themselves ever will.
Then again, maybe we should think more about solving the underlying problem instead of helping people work around it. That problem is the finality of the partitioning choice made during installation. Systems grow. Systems are repurposed. The partition table stays the same. I move /var/cache/apt somewhere else and link to it from /var/cache.
We now have advanced filesystems with live-resize features. We have the device mapper. As far as I know, neither Debian nor any other distro enables users below the wizard level to use these features to tweak their partition sizes with confidence and ease. If we could do that, the partitioning phase of installation wouldn't be as daunting as it is.
Robots have to deal with bottomless pits anyway, since not every one of those is mentioned in a robots.txt file. Surely there are enough unmarked pits that an Internet-wide spider would never work at all unless it was quite smart about generated content.
This means that if you can intercept, decrypt, and understand the communications between the console and the server, you can cheat without running the risk of being flagged by any automatic cheat detector.
If you want to get fancy, you can even imagine a setup that allows you to safely use aimbots too. That requires either a custom controller or a robot that moves the widgets on a standard controller in response to your actions on a second controller (most of the time) or your computer's commands (when you command the aimbot to take over).
Still, I figured if you need to build or buy illegal hardware to cheat, I think the cheat prevention team has kinda won. But after thinking about it some more, maybe not. Regular people have their DVD players modded, gamers have their consoles modded and some are willing to spend a couple of hundred dollars for a controller they think will give them a slight edge (you mostly see that with wheels in racing games) so maybe the idea of a thriving black market for cheat enabling Xbox controllers is not totally out of the question.
Encryption, automatic cheat detection, closed hardware, laws to protect closed hardware. All can cut down on cheating. But I think the other thing you mentioned is much more important:
You're not anonymous. That's the real difference, I think.
Now all you have to worry about is identity theft :-)
There's also shouldexist.org
You mean you haven't heard about the imminent death of the Internet?
Yes, and unlike the annoyingly common 1280x1024 screens, they actually have a normal 4/3 aspect ratio.
This is shocking news. 40 tracks per month? I'm going to go from 2000 to 40 at the same price? "Special offer, one for the price of fifty! Don't delay; you might miss out on the deal of a lifetime! We're not going to be around for long, you know!"
I'm trying to keep a perspective on things though. After all, it's not so much that the new terms are a bad deal, but that the old ones were unbelievably good. Impossibly good, in fact.
What remains is a service that sells MP3's encoded with lame --alt-preset standard and no DRM crap at 25 cents per track.
It actually sounds pretty good when you put it like that. But the problem for current subscribers is that it completely changes the way you use the service. Before, EMusic was a grand buffet. You paid the cover and took what you wanted. Now, every download is a purchasing decision.
Steve Mann is way ahead of you
They're both evil. Always.
Doctor: Flex your right elbow please.
Patient: <flexes elbow>
Doctor: Good. Now pronate your right forearm.
Patient: <blink>
Doctor: Aha! As I suspected! Yet another case of wrist drop!
Now I just need to find a good OOG THE CAVEMAN post :-)
Every now and then, I go looking at the network/distributed filesystems (particularly looking for disconnected operation) and every time I find there's still something majorly wrong with all of them. I can't think of anyone I'd trust more than the Samba team to bring that kind of thing out of the research/toy department into the real world. Not just because they know network filesystems, but because they have all this experience in maintaining a solid product of such great importance to its users.
So I'm hoping that what these guys work on after Samba is ...Samba!
To me, Scandinavia is the limp phallus-looking peninsula at the top of globe and doesn't include any islands or even Denmark. Others take a cultural, rather than geographic, view and consider "Scandinavia" to include the islands, Denmark, and maybe Finland, but I call that "The Nordic Countries".
I should say that I'm Icelandic and perhaps comon usage here is unusual. We don't talk much about Scandinavia, it's always "Nordurlond" ("The Nordic Countries").
BTW, what is the meaning of this crap with Slashcode mapping perfectly valid characters like eth and o with umlaut (which I typed above) to the closest ASCII characters?
I don't have kids OR a spouse, you insensitive clod!
(3. Profit!)