That is the biggest piece of crap I've seen in a LONG time. Giving that to your kids would do them a great disservice. Keys in alphabetical order? How much more anti-ergonomical can you get?
I just switched a few minutes ago on my Windows 2000 box:
start->settings->control panel->regional options.
Go to "input locals tab" and hit ADD. Now add US Dvorak (or whatever other type of keyboard you want)
At the bottom, you'll see the key combination to toggle between QWERTY and Dvorak--*left alt+shift*.
I can type using one, hit *left alt+shift*, and then the keyboard switches to the other. When I have problems figuring out the keyboard, I simply look at this layout.
While my knee jerk reaction is to always say "fuck anything that doesn't give me complete control over my hardware," I'll have to say...that's the best godamn defense I've heard in a long time.
..."What percentage of Lindows boxen do you think that the public buys just to install another OS on? And of those boxen, how many do you think have pirated versions of Windows on them?"
I actually installed Windows 98 on one of the Nokia IP440s. They have CD drives (unlike the IP330s) and are really nothing more than a souped up version of the PC you have at home.
On the Nokia series, you pay a premium for A) Nokia's OS (NetBSD-based, I believe, which has VRRP for failover), B) it's interoperability w/programs like CheckPoint and ISS, and C) being able to rack it.
WAY too much of a premium, in my opinion. When the sales guys at the VAR I was at tried to push them on all our customers, I quietly directed them all to PIXen or OpenBSD.
Licensing and pricing suck, but it sure is nice to quickly push a firewall policy to several endpoints at once. Failover solutions are hella easy also.
A federal judge in Los Angeles has handed a stunning court victory to file-swapping services Streamcast Networks and Grokster, dismissing much of the record industry and movie studios' lawsuit against the two companies.
Stunning? I'm not sure I'd use that word. It's a small victory, though...
Stop measuring Zombo against the linear logical requirements of society! It's a fucking koan lesson, for crying out loud. It's supposed to disorient, upset, and dislocate the mind....ultimately breaking down the barriers for enlightenment.
I find it ironic that some of the same people who'd normally have a shit fit over their personal information being centralized (TIA, etc.) actually *volunteer* to disclose their buddy lists (not to mention make it *accessible* to the general public)...
The graceful curve of handle of the Big Dipper (the Plough in Great Britain), among the most famed of celestial sights, represents the tail of Ursa Major, the Greater Bear. Third star in from the end, "Alioth" relates not to a bear, but to a "black horse," the name corrupted from the original and mis- assigned to the naked-eye companion of Mizar, which took on the vaguely similar name "Alcor." Bayer's rough rule of assigning Greek-letter names more or less in order of brightness is quite violated here, as the Bear's bright stars are named from west to east, hence "Epsilon" for Ursa Major's brightest (bright second magnitude, 1.77) star, indeed for the 31st brightest star in the whole sky. A white class A (A0) star with a measured temperature of 9400 Kelvin, Alioth shines at us from a distance of 81 light years with a luminosity 108 times that of the Sun, from which we derive a diameter of four times solar and a mass close to triple that of the Sun. Large and luminous for its class, Alioth is probably ageing, and is nearing the end of its main sequence hydrogen-fusing lifetime. Of greater significance, Alioth is the brightest of the "peculiar A (Ap) stars," magnetic stars in which a variety of chemical elements are either depleted or enhanced, and in addition appear to change with great regularity as the star rotates. "Chemically peculiar" behavior in class A and B stars generally comes not from creation of elements, but from their separation in the relatively thin stellar atmospheres, some falling downward within the star's gravitational field, others lofted upward as a result of an outward push by radiation. Here, they are also apparently related to the Alioth's magnetic field. Alioth is classed as an "Alpha Canum Venaticorum" star (after the prototype, Cor Caroli). Its magnetic field -- and the chemical composition -- change from our perspective during the star's 5.1-day stellar rotation period. Some elements are highly concentrated into distinct regions that swing in and out of sight as the star spins. For example, the abundance of oxygen is 100,000 times greater near the magnetic equator than near the magnetic poles (which are displaced from the rotational equator and poles); chromium behaves similarly. Heavier elements, such as the rare earth europium, also display strong variations. Though visually the brightest of the peculiar A stars, Alioth is also noted for having one of the weakest magnetic fields among its class, only about 100 times that of the Earth, 15 times weaker than that observed for Cor Caroli.
I can remember the first time I started using the Internet my freshman year in college. Wow...here was the perfect manifestation of all my libertarian (then Randroid-ian) ideals. How could unfettered access to information NOT topple over all oppressive regimes?
It took me a long time to realize this, but the Internet qua Internet will NOT change the world for the better.
If you were part of the upper echelon in the Soviet Union, would YOU want democracy? Would you give up the security--your nice apartment, caviar dinners, and KGB contacts--to live in a country where you didn't know what your lot/role in life would be?
Once you look at it this way, everything from the way that closed regimes limit netizens' access to information makes to the way cable and software companies (namely, Microsoft) "act strategically" makes sense.
People/governments/regimes have worked hard to make their way to the top. They're not about to put in place policies or architectures in place that threaten that hegemony.
My question to the/. community is: what do we do to change this? We are arguably the biggest nerd gathering on the planet. Individually we might not have clout, but with the right direction, collectively we might...
Wired reported that the GOBBLES group posted a bogus security advisory regarding the RIAA contracting the hacking group to develop a "hydra-like computer worm that has already spread widely by exploiting security vulnerabilities in several popular music programs." (/. thread here)
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I just switched a few minutes ago on my Windows 2000 box:
start->settings->control panel->regional options.
Go to "input locals tab" and hit ADD. Now add US Dvorak (or whatever other type of keyboard you want)
At the bottom, you'll see the key combination to toggle between QWERTY and Dvorak--*left alt+shift*.
I can type using one, hit *left alt+shift*, and then the keyboard switches to the other. When I have problems figuring out the keyboard, I simply look at this layout.
I agree--it has a lot of shortcomings...
Tom and Jerry are talking now! Just WTF is THAT all about?!?
Just tried it, and it DOES crash on the latest fully patched version of IE.
/. crowd hasn't yet embedded these 5 lines into the slash code!
Anyone actually *look* at those lines of code? It's just:
<html>
<form>
<input type crash>
</form>
</html>
I'm surprised that the
On the Nokia series, you pay a premium for A) Nokia's OS (NetBSD-based, I believe, which has VRRP for failover), B) it's interoperability w/programs like CheckPoint and ISS, and C) being able to rack it.
WAY too much of a premium, in my opinion. When the sales guys at the VAR I was at tried to push them on all our customers, I quietly directed them all to PIXen or OpenBSD.
Licensing and pricing suck , but it sure is nice to quickly push a firewall policy to several endpoints at once. Failover solutions are hella easy also.
(Although typing in "failover" on PIX is hella nice)
A federal judge in Los Angeles has handed a stunning court victory to file-swapping services Streamcast Networks and Grokster, dismissing much of the record industry and movie studios' lawsuit against the two companies.
Stunning? I'm not sure I'd use that word. It's a small victory, though...
(duh!)
That could be your base...
[evil laugh] muhahahahahahahaha [/evil laugh]
Look in the Sci/Tech section.
It took me a long time to realize this, but the Internet qua Internet will NOT change the world for the better.
If you were part of the upper echelon in the Soviet Union, would YOU want democracy? Would you give up the security--your nice apartment, caviar dinners, and KGB contacts--to live in a country where you didn't know what your lot/role in life would be?
Once you look at it this way, everything from the way that closed regimes limit netizens' access to information makes to the way cable and software companies (namely, Microsoft) "act strategically" makes sense.
People/governments/regimes have worked hard to make their way to the top. They're not about to put in place policies or architectures in place that threaten that hegemony.
My question to the
How much bandwidth is
Wired reported that the GOBBLES group posted a bogus security advisory regarding the RIAA contracting the hacking group to develop a "hydra-like computer worm that has already spread widely by exploiting security vulnerabilities in several popular music programs." (/. thread here)
Thanks for the wakeup call, GOBBLES.