I'd be careful. If this program becomes popular, your name might be the first one to come up when someone searches for "molester" and if people use the app to trade kiddie porn you are in even more trouble:p
Unfortunately there aren't any tools that I'm aware of to scan for Windows spyware under Linux. I've tried running Adaware and spybot and some others under Wine with no success.
You can at least do things like manually remove directories that have known spyware, and edit the registry from within Linux/Knoppix.
My point was that while everyone was saying how he got ripped off because he no longer gets royalties for this use, I was saying that is how patents should work, he got a few million for it, and now it's in the public domain so everyone can use it.
It seems to me that maybe one of the reasons RFID tags are in such widespread use now is the fact that the patent did expire so other companies were free to implement their own uses for it. He got $3 million, which isn't bad, and now it goes into the public domain, as it should.
This is why we have patents, everyone is just so used to predatory patents nowadays that someone not making money hand-over-fist from a patent seems strange.
Am I the only one that remembered them quoting $149 for this watch back last fall when slashdot did the original story on it?
It could simply have been a mixup on the part of whoever submitted the story, since their old pda watches (non-Palm) were $149, but still, I got my hopes up until I saw the $300 price tag.
For those of you who *don't* remember that, the negative worlds were an easter egg of sorts in Super Mario 1 that I believe the developers put in there to test the water levels.
You go to level 1-2, which is underground, and go to the very end of the level, but not through the final pipe, if you stand on top of the pipe and knock out all the blocks to the left of it (but not to the right) and jump backwards a special way, you can walk through the wall and jump in one of the warp zone pipes before they list worlds 3, 4, and 5. If you do that you will warp to a negatively numbered world which is an water level that keeps going.
Then it was Red Hat's turn. I inserted the first installation CD and rebooted Windows. I chose to manually partition the disk using fdisk.
First, I deleted the partition I had originally created for Linux. Then I created a 256-megabyte swap partition and gave the rest of the drive to Red Hat, choosing the ext3 journaling filesystem.
Ok ok, let's stop right here at the first paragraph. So, he already had his drive partitioned from a previous install (meaning he didn't have to mess with fips, partition magic, etc.) and he used fdisk to partition. And exactly how is this easier than a Windows install?
Granted, I've used Linux for years, and fdisk isn't difficult for me to use, but having to use fdisk raises the difficulty of an install considerably. I know that RedHat doesn't require the use of fdisk in their install, but this reviewer should have known better.
I make it a point to try out the various latest Linux installations on a spare machine here just to see how far they've come, and when one compares Redhat to something like SuSE or Mandrake, it still lags behind. RedHat is competing in the Windows NT/2k/XP Workstation/Server market, and isn't apparently too interested in the home desktop market, and their installer reflects this. There are still many questions asked throughout a Redhat install that would require some sort of background in Linux to answer.
Something like SuSE's install would work better for such a comparison, as it best combines ease of use with configurability. The SuSE install tries to autodetect and autoconfigure everything the best it can, and then presents you with a summary of everything it has done, along with the option to change anything if you want to. The new Linux user would probably just click the "Next" and accept these defaults, while the experienced Linux user still has the option to change anything he wants.
Of course you realize this isn't whether the browser can handle the page, but what browser it says it is (people have gotten these browsers to work fine just by claiming to be IE).
To go with your analogy, it would be like a craftsman 10mm nut refusing to fit a socket wrench if it didn't say Craftsman, but the moment you put a Craftsman label on your generic socket, it would let it fit.
"I was warned if I didn't shut down my laptop I had to leave by some girl that worked for the theater. The world's first Cyber-Theater my ass. Nice try, but apparently wireless users are absolutely not welcomed there when a movie is playing. I'm very disappointed. I couldn't even have my PocketPC with wireless NIC on while the movie was on. Was I taking off down the runway on an airplane? What's the point?"
Good. If I'm watching a movie, I don't want the backlight from your laptop or PocketPC glaring at me, the clunking of your keyboard or beeping (or worse) from your laptop.
Cellphones have shown that there are plenty of people who have no concept of others in public places, and who can't be bothered to turn it off.
If you arrive early at a movie, and want to browse the web to pass the time, fine. Once the movie starts though, I want everything (including your mouth) shut off.
Just watch the movie. That's what you paid $10 for anyway.
One thing to be careful with WRT running Quickbooks over a samba share is to make sure that you don't upgrade/restart samba while someone is running Quickbooks over the network. Quickbooks is VERY touchy about this and will end up crashing if this happens.
Of course, it sounds like in your case you just set it up and let it be, but this is more for others who are considering a similar setup.
Nice and small... not quite as small as my libretto I don't think but still small enough to make it easy to take around. Plus I've noticed that the small sony keyboard layouts are much roomier than the Libretto layout (especially the one on my 50CT).
Unfortunately Dynamism is charging $2000 to import it. Then again, the Libretto 50CT cost that much when it first got here too.
For those of you who like large notebooks, large screens etc. surprise! this isn't the laptop for you! Unfortunately "Texas size" laptops are more popular here in the US and small laptops like this one and the Libretto series have had to stay in Japan.
Well, the govt. used to care, and used to want to bring anti-trust charges against Microsoft, but then, Microsoft used to not donate money to any political party.
It's interesting to see how both policies changed around the same time.
Exactly. The setup I have here uses procmail and spamassassin and defangs any inappropriate html or word macros. On top of that, executables it knows are bad it quarrantines and notifies both the sender and receiver (in the off chance the attachment was legit, both parties would know it didn't go through and why). Otherwise it simply renames the attachment randomly and "defangs" the extension so one has to manually rename it to get it to even run.
We've had no problems since that is set up. Most places don't even need.exe,.pif, etc attachments in email. And even if you do, it's a simple matter to just zip it up.
Yeah, it seems like all the jokes are really blunt this season, and the "archaic pop culture references" are just random. Something like "Hi Hank," "Did someone say 'Mel Blanc'?" Stupid stuff like that.
It just seems like the current writers don't have a sense of subtlety, and so every joke is way overdone, and even sometimes replayed or drawn attention to just in case you missed it.
Older Simpsons seasons allowed subtlety, if you didn't get it, well, you didn't get it. That also added some rewatchability to episodes.
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Yeah, I've always felt the same way with, "If you have to *call* yourself the 'Bible' on the subject..." Tech books are titled "Bible" by the techs that use them... just seems like some marketer found out and said "hey we'll call this the Bible ahead of time and maybe techs will do the same!" Similar to how Howard Stern started saying he coined the phrase "King of all Media" so that people would start calling him that.
I'm not understanding what's wrong with having extra keys on the keyboard. I have my windows keys mapped to Meta and Multi_key, and it's nice to map the windows key to pop up my enlightenment menu.
I even mapped all of the new "internet" keys on the top of my keyboard, and have a few of the set for quick access to a terminal.
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I'd be careful. If this program becomes popular, your name might be the first one to come up when someone searches for "molester" and if people use the app to trade kiddie porn you are in even more trouble :p
Unfortunately there aren't any tools that I'm aware of to scan for Windows spyware under Linux. I've tried running Adaware and spybot and some others under Wine with no success.
You can at least do things like manually remove directories that have known spyware, and edit the registry from within Linux/Knoppix.
Heh, You're welcome Donnie :)
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My point was that while everyone was saying how he got ripped off because he no longer gets royalties for this use, I was saying that is how patents should work, he got a few million for it, and now it's in the public domain so everyone can use it.
This is why we have patents, everyone is just so used to predatory patents nowadays that someone not making money hand-over-fist from a patent seems strange.
You already can set up the iPod to automatically mount and umount upon access using autofs. I talk about it here
Am I the only one that remembered them quoting $149 for this watch back last fall when slashdot did the original story on it?
It could simply have been a mixup on the part of whoever submitted the story, since their old pda watches (non-Palm) were $149, but still, I got my hopes up until I saw the $300 price tag.
For those of you who *don't* remember that, the negative worlds were an easter egg of sorts in Super Mario 1 that I believe the developers put in there to test the water levels.
You go to level 1-2, which is underground, and go to the very end of the level, but not through the final pipe, if you stand on top of the pipe and knock out all the blocks to the left of it (but not to the right) and jump backwards a special way, you can walk through the wall and jump in one of the warp zone pipes before they list worlds 3, 4, and 5. If you do that you will warp to a negatively numbered world which is an water level that keeps going.
Then it was Red Hat's turn. I inserted the first installation CD and rebooted Windows. I chose to manually partition the disk using fdisk. First, I deleted the partition I had originally created for Linux. Then I created a 256-megabyte swap partition and gave the rest of the drive to Red Hat, choosing the ext3 journaling filesystem.
Ok ok, let's stop right here at the first paragraph. So, he already had his drive partitioned from a previous install (meaning he didn't have to mess with fips, partition magic, etc.) and he used fdisk to partition. And exactly how is this easier than a Windows install?
Granted, I've used Linux for years, and fdisk isn't difficult for me to use, but having to use fdisk raises the difficulty of an install considerably. I know that RedHat doesn't require the use of fdisk in their install, but this reviewer should have known better.
I make it a point to try out the various latest Linux installations on a spare machine here just to see how far they've come, and when one compares Redhat to something like SuSE or Mandrake, it still lags behind. RedHat is competing in the Windows NT/2k/XP Workstation/Server market, and isn't apparently too interested in the home desktop market, and their installer reflects this. There are still many questions asked throughout a Redhat install that would require some sort of background in Linux to answer.
Something like SuSE's install would work better for such a comparison, as it best combines ease of use with configurability. The SuSE install tries to autodetect and autoconfigure everything the best it can, and then presents you with a summary of everything it has done, along with the option to change anything if you want to. The new Linux user would probably just click the "Next" and accept these defaults, while the experienced Linux user still has the option to change anything he wants.
Of course you realize this isn't whether the browser can handle the page, but what browser it says it is (people have gotten these browsers to work fine just by claiming to be IE).
To go with your analogy, it would be like a craftsman 10mm nut refusing to fit a socket wrench if it didn't say Craftsman, but the moment you put a Craftsman label on your generic socket, it would let it fit.
"I was warned if I didn't shut down my laptop I had to leave by some girl that worked for the theater. The world's first Cyber-Theater my ass. Nice try, but apparently wireless users are absolutely not welcomed there when a movie is playing. I'm very disappointed. I couldn't even have my PocketPC with wireless NIC on while the movie was on. Was I taking off down the runway on an airplane? What's the point?"
Good. If I'm watching a movie, I don't want the backlight from your laptop or PocketPC glaring at me, the clunking of your keyboard or beeping (or worse) from your laptop.
Cellphones have shown that there are plenty of people who have no concept of others in public places, and who can't be bothered to turn it off.
If you arrive early at a movie, and want to browse the web to pass the time, fine. Once the movie starts though, I want everything (including your mouth) shut off.
Just watch the movie. That's what you paid $10 for anyway.
One thing to be careful with WRT running Quickbooks over a samba share is to make sure that you don't upgrade/restart samba while someone is running Quickbooks over the network. Quickbooks is VERY touchy about this and will end up crashing if this happens.
Of course, it sounds like in your case you just set it up and let it be, but this is more for others who are considering a similar setup.
Nice and small... not quite as small as my libretto I don't think but still small enough to make it easy to take around. Plus I've noticed that the small sony keyboard layouts are much roomier than the Libretto layout (especially the one on my 50CT).
Unfortunately Dynamism is charging $2000 to import it. Then again, the Libretto 50CT cost that much when it first got here too.
For those of you who like large notebooks, large screens etc. surprise! this isn't the laptop for you! Unfortunately "Texas size" laptops are more popular here in the US and small laptops like this one and the Libretto series have had to stay in Japan.
Well, the govt. used to care, and used to want to bring anti-trust charges against Microsoft, but then, Microsoft used to not donate money to any political party.
It's interesting to see how both policies changed around the same time.
Exactly. The setup I have here uses procmail and spamassassin and defangs any inappropriate html or word macros. On top of that, executables it knows are bad it quarrantines and notifies both the sender and receiver (in the off chance the attachment was legit, both parties would know it didn't go through and why). Otherwise it simply renames the attachment randomly and "defangs" the extension so one has to manually rename it to get it to even run.
.exe, .pif, etc attachments in email. And even if you do, it's a simple matter to just zip it up.
We've had no problems since that is set up. Most places don't even need
Yeah, it seems like all the jokes are really blunt this season, and the "archaic pop culture references" are just random. Something like "Hi Hank," "Did someone say 'Mel Blanc'?" Stupid stuff like that.
It just seems like the current writers don't have a sense of subtlety, and so every joke is way overdone, and even sometimes replayed or drawn attention to just in case you missed it.
Older Simpsons seasons allowed subtlety, if you didn't get it, well, you didn't get it. That also added some rewatchability to episodes.
Yeah, I've always felt the same way with, "If you have to *call* yourself the 'Bible' on the subject..." Tech books are titled "Bible" by the techs that use them... just seems like some marketer found out and said "hey we'll call this the Bible ahead of time and maybe techs will do the same!" Similar to how Howard Stern started saying he coined the phrase "King of all Media" so that people would start calling him that.
Heh, I would have expected something like "Duron-Duron" (which is what I call all the SMP Duron systems out there).
Unless up2date requires you to upgrade your kernel (which it would in a stock RH7.1 box at the moment). Then you will have to reboot.
Generally if you want to build a deb from source, the one-liner is apt-get --compile source
Eh, even if you forgot it's tax day, you can at least file for an extension which will buy you some more time. So all is not lost.
Exactly. The idea of something like a library would NEVER fly if it were proposed today. The book publishers would never allow it to happen.
Companies don't seem to understand that they don't have a *right* to make a profit.
I'm not understanding what's wrong with having extra keys on the keyboard. I have my windows keys mapped to Meta and Multi_key, and it's nice to map the windows key to pop up my enlightenment menu.
I even mapped all of the new "internet" keys on the top of my keyboard, and have a few of the set for quick access to a terminal.
Heh, so is it done compiling yet?
Then again, if you come to canada then you end up paying the RIAA for all of the CDRs you purchase, so maybe there's another country to move to?