You're a moron, as others have already pointed out.
Establish immunity from credit card charges for sites classified as obscene.
This would have to be something passed by Congress. What exactly does Congress stand to gain?
The porn customers would go hog wild at the opportunity.
Is that why you're suggesting it?
It's not restraint of trade to prevent people selling illegal materials from collecting their revenue.
If pornography were illegal material, there would be no need for this nonsense about immunity from charges. The operators of those sites could simply be arrested and their sites shut down. It's not illegal. Immoral perhaps, depending on your personal view, and really damned annoying to many of us (especially the JavaScript code that pops up another handful of windows whenever you close one, which should be illegal, and I seem to remember that they were thinking of making it illegal in this state).
um, you do know that you can just use a swap file, instead of a partition? It's a bit less efficient, but works in a pinch, and obviously swap files can be created and deleted at any time. You can have multiple swap files active, so if your 400MB swap partition isn't enough, just make a 600MB swap file, run swapon, and you've got that gig of swap you needed.
A new spiffy filesystem can't change the fact that your hard drive is partitioned. Within each partition lives a filesystem. You can't just simply change partition sizes on the fly. I don't know how Partition Magic works, and half the people I've heard from who've used it said it wiped their hard drive.
The standards that the dominant linux distro makes should be followed.
Um, what if the standards set by the dominant distro happen to be retarded? One of the reasons I don't use RedHat is because of the awkward standards they try to set.
Microsoft makes the dominant operating system. Shouldn't we all just use Windows?
Intel makes the dominant PC processor. Shouldn't we all just use Pentium IIIs?
Nike is the dominant producer of athletic shoes. If we oppose their labor practices, we should just sit down and keep quiet about it, because they're number one, and we should buy their shoes.
McDonald's has more fast-food restaurants than anybody else in the world. What do we need Burger King for?
Coca-Cola is king of the soft drink industry. RC Cola should just give up.
OK, what about when the solution to the problem is repairing Internet Explorer? (Go to Control Panels, Add/Remove Programs, select Internet Explorer 5.x and Internet Tools, click Add/Remove, select Repair Internet Explorer, click OK.)
Would you call that working around the problem, or fixing the problem?
The problem was, Internet Explorer was corrupt, and wasn't displaying pages. The solution was to repair it; it's no longer corrupt.
The deeper problem is, Windows sucks ass. For this, there is no fix. No, switching to another OS is not an option I can suggest to a customer. Is Microsoft aware of the problem? Sure, that's why they put the Repair feature in there.
Don't assume that every problem has a real solution. In the world of Windows, that's simply not the case. And the people who call in with problems are usually stuck in the world of Windows.
running Mac OS X PB at home. I installed it on Saturday, I haven't rebooted since. Even running my kids' games, MS Office 98, IE, Netscape, OmniWeb Beta, I can't make this fucker crash! (although several minor bugs have manifested). My ancient G3 beige desktop actually goes to sleep and wakes up correctly!
Really? I've had it crash a few times, and locked the GUI a couple of times (although I was able to telnet in and kill the hung process). And of course Classic blows up every now and then.
It's definitely very stable overall, though. My biggest complaint is that the user interface sucks ass. It's not very well thought out, and goes against years of user interface research.
Some WMs have good aesthetics (e.g. WindowMaker, BlackBox), but they're sorely lacking as user interfaces, from the basic "What are the standard keyboard shortcuts for copy, cut, and paste?" to generally providing a coherent system and not a mish-mosh of applications that look like they belong in different universes.
Note that this is not the fault of the window managers themselves. In the X world, there are few standards for applications to try to adhere to - like, what button do I hit to close a program? Is that command Close, Exit or Quit? If I haven't saved my work yet, it should prompt me to do so - how is that prompt worded? When some programs say "Quit without saving changes? Yes/No" and others say "Save changes before quitting? Yes/No", the chance of the user (who may be very tired and slightly drunk at the time) clicking the wrong button.
To this, the hacker has traditionally said, any clear-headed person should be able to stop, read the plain-English dialog box, and figure out what to do. True enough, but a Mac user doesn't have to, and that's what makes the Mac OS better.
People familliar with the open source operating systems would be in more demand and the "Shut up and reboot" technique of tech support would die.
Do keep in mind that the reason we tell people that is, a very large percentage of the time, it fixes the problem. It's an easy thing to do, and often works. If that doesn't fix it, we'll go from there.
Becuase AIM is infinitely more secure, and has a much different user base. Most of the people I know who use ICQ or IRC, that I'm actually interested in talking to, also have AIM; the reverse is not true. ICQ and IRC have historically been open to security holes, while AIM has been very secure - you can't even get my IP address if I don't want you to have it.
everyone know that NT can not support heavy traffic, everyone remember Hotmail when M$ changed server for NT? it was crap.
Yes, but apparently Win2k is less crap, because Microsoft has finally successfully migrated Hotmail from FreeBSD to Win2k. So while NT4 can't handle it, 2k probably could. Of course, you'd probably need more powerful machines, and more of them, to do the same job, but that's fine; this is Microsoft.
He's not the first one to do this, ya know. Somebody posted the instructions in a chatroom about six months ago and I saved it in case I ever found myself running Windows and had a lot of free time on my hands (hasn't happened yet):
Here's how you disable AIM Advertisements:
Make sure AIM isn't running (not even the icon in the tray). Use notepad to open aim.odl. Scroll down to where there are two sections that have "advert" followed by "required". Remove the word required in both cases, and save the file. Now delete or rename your advert.ocm file (I renamed mine advert.bak). Now start AIM. When you sign on, no more annoying advertisements at the top of your buddy list.
Since the first article was posted on this, I kinda wondered what kind of a moron would not figure this one out before!!! Our shop buys machines with the OS preloaded, therefore, you are paying for that copy of the OS (eliminating the need for a group license). Installing the new image has no effect on licensing, since it would be the same as removing all the crap that the OEM installed, and installing your in house applications/settings, only quicker! Just keep your Cert. of authenticity (sp) in a safe place and you are ok.
That's what you'd think would make sense. If you had bothered to actually READ the original article, you would have noticed that this is exactly what Microsoft's legal department says is NOT allowed - which is why this is an issue at all.
Sorry, my quoting came out wrong, so you misunderstood me. The troll wrote:
Probably the best bet for now is to stick with LinuxPPC, something not blocked by Steve Jobs' arrogance (wait a minute, the hardware is still under his wrath. Damn!).
I replied:
Unless you run it on an RS-6000....
I was referring to the hardware being under Steve Jobs' wrath, which the RS6000 certainly is not. Sorry for the confusion.:-)
Hmm, so when Intel switched from the socket to the slot, there really was a technical advantage to it, and they weren't just trying to play dirty against AMD?
Seems pretty obvious, then, that going back to the socket was technically stupid, and therefore could only have been a political move.
The sad thing about that is that it's so true. I remember watching Clinton's 2000 State of the Union Address and the Republican rebuttal on TV. Clinton outlined several goals he had. The Republican senators (obviously reading from a teleprompter, and not doing a very good job of it) came on afterwards and basically said that the Democrats were trying to ruin the country and all of Clinton's proposals were crap, then proceeded to describe their goals - which for the most part were EXACTLY THE SAME as what Clinton had just finished speaking about.
When I turn on my television, though, who do I see holding Congressional hearings about Carnivore and its impacts on decent Americans? The Republican Congress, that's who.
Are you saying that the entire US Congress is Republican?
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Establish immunity from credit card charges for sites classified as obscene.
This would have to be something passed by Congress. What exactly does Congress stand to gain?
The porn customers would go hog wild at the opportunity.
Is that why you're suggesting it?
It's not restraint of trade to prevent people selling illegal materials from collecting their revenue.
If pornography were illegal material, there would be no need for this nonsense about immunity from charges. The operators of those sites could simply be arrested and their sites shut down. It's not illegal. Immoral perhaps, depending on your personal view, and really damned annoying to many of us (especially the JavaScript code that pops up another handful of windows whenever you close one, which should be illegal, and I seem to remember that they were thinking of making it illegal in this state).
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E-mail is also a verb; you can e-mail someone.
And whoever said something about uncountable nouns was right. Same as hair, though; can be either uncountable or singular (or with an s, plural).
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A new spiffy filesystem can't change the fact that your hard drive is partitioned. Within each partition lives a filesystem. You can't just simply change partition sizes on the fly. I don't know how Partition Magic works, and half the people I've heard from who've used it said it wiped their hard drive.
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I'm not suggesting anything of the sort. I'm only saying that RedHat's lead should not be followed blindly just because RedHat is popular.
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Um, what if the standards set by the dominant distro happen to be retarded? One of the reasons I don't use RedHat is because of the awkward standards they try to set.
Microsoft makes the dominant operating system. Shouldn't we all just use Windows?
Intel makes the dominant PC processor. Shouldn't we all just use Pentium IIIs?
Nike is the dominant producer of athletic shoes. If we oppose their labor practices, we should just sit down and keep quiet about it, because they're number one, and we should buy their shoes.
McDonald's has more fast-food restaurants than anybody else in the world. What do we need Burger King for?
Coca-Cola is king of the soft drink industry. RC Cola should just give up.
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Would you call that working around the problem, or fixing the problem?
The problem was, Internet Explorer was corrupt, and wasn't displaying pages. The solution was to repair it; it's no longer corrupt.
The deeper problem is, Windows sucks ass. For this, there is no fix. No, switching to another OS is not an option I can suggest to a customer. Is Microsoft aware of the problem? Sure, that's why they put the Repair feature in there.
Don't assume that every problem has a real solution. In the world of Windows, that's simply not the case. And the people who call in with problems are usually stuck in the world of Windows.
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Really? I've had it crash a few times, and locked the GUI a couple of times (although I was able to telnet in and kill the hung process). And of course Classic blows up every now and then.
It's definitely very stable overall, though. My biggest complaint is that the user interface sucks ass. It's not very well thought out, and goes against years of user interface research.
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Note that this is not the fault of the window managers themselves. In the X world, there are few standards for applications to try to adhere to - like, what button do I hit to close a program? Is that command Close, Exit or Quit? If I haven't saved my work yet, it should prompt me to do so - how is that prompt worded? When some programs say "Quit without saving changes? Yes/No" and others say "Save changes before quitting? Yes/No", the chance of the user (who may be very tired and slightly drunk at the time) clicking the wrong button.
To this, the hacker has traditionally said, any clear-headed person should be able to stop, read the plain-English dialog box, and figure out what to do. True enough, but a Mac user doesn't have to, and that's what makes the Mac OS better.
Deveoper documentation from Apple:
Mac OS 8 Human Interface Guidelines
Adopting the Aqua Interface
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How much marketing has Transmeta done?
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Do keep in mind that the reason we tell people that is, a very large percentage of the time, it fixes the problem. It's an easy thing to do, and often works. If that doesn't fix it, we'll go from there.
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Becuase AIM is infinitely more secure, and has a much different user base. Most of the people I know who use ICQ or IRC, that I'm actually interested in talking to, also have AIM; the reverse is not true. ICQ and IRC have historically been open to security holes, while AIM has been very secure - you can't even get my IP address if I don't want you to have it.
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Actually it's because it was a Kevin Smith film; it's been awhile since I've seen Indiana Jones.
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If that.
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Yes, but apparently Win2k is less crap, because Microsoft has finally successfully migrated Hotmail from FreeBSD to Win2k. So while NT4 can't handle it, 2k probably could. Of course, you'd probably need more powerful machines, and more of them, to do the same job, but that's fine; this is Microsoft.
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Here's how you disable AIM Advertisements:
Make sure AIM isn't running (not even the icon in the tray). Use notepad to open aim.odl. Scroll down to where there are two sections that have "advert" followed by "required". Remove the word required in both cases, and save the file. Now delete or rename your advert.ocm file (I renamed mine advert.bak). Now start AIM. When you sign on, no more annoying advertisements at the top of your buddy list.
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That's what you'd think would make sense. If you had bothered to actually READ the original article, you would have noticed that this is exactly what Microsoft's legal department says is NOT allowed - which is why this is an issue at all.
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Probably the best bet for now is to stick with LinuxPPC, something not blocked by Steve Jobs' arrogance (wait a minute, the hardware is still under his wrath. Damn!).
I replied:
Unless you run it on an RS-6000....
I was referring to the hardware being under Steve Jobs' wrath, which the RS6000 certainly is not. Sorry for the confusion.
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Seems pretty obvious, then, that going back to the socket was technically stupid, and therefore could only have been a political move.
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I wish the politicians would just grow up!
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Are you saying that the entire US Congress is Republican?
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