They do not even ship the same day your return is received anymore. It used to be that way, but I they receive a returned movie on say Monday, they won't ship the next one till Tuesday. At least in my case.
>(oh yeah, *prove* that we wrote/publishedt hat...)
Guess it depends on how quickly they 'revise' but maybe the Way Back Machine could help here. Not sure if this would be "proof" from a legal standpoint.
I use Linux on my main desktop machine (and a good handful of servers) and I certainly prefer Linux (even on the desktop) to anything MS has produced so far...
However, is this not supposed to be about choice? If someone wants to use an MS solution, let them. Or MAC/OSX, Sun, Amiga or a TRS80 for all I care. Last time I checked, my Red Hat T-shirt said "revolution of choice", not "zealots will conquer the earth" nor "MS must fall".
Don't care about modding, this is getting stupid. Zealots (any cause) usually don't help the "cause".
GPG does have frontends and such, however you can also use the --openpgp flag to make output compatible with the vast majority of newer PGP software. This allows people to use their current PGP software without a problem.
GPG with the above flag powers encryption for the shopping cart technology we provide without any compatibility issues to date.
>So how hard would it be to make a linux box
>have really funky skinned windows with a >tech-looking background? I vaguely remember
I've seen some very funky stuff at themes.org.
Some of that would get close to the MovieOS.
Most of it would make sure I never get any
work done. I keep telling myself to download
some themes and create a user to play around
with them.
Maybe someday...
Something most people here seem to forget is the simple fact that many (if not most) large server farms do not run on MS based products.
The whole 'open source will be made illegal' or 'Microsoft will control anything computer related' arguements are simply not going to fly.
No 'power that be' will all of sudden make anything non-MS illegal. That would pretty much shut down the net as we know it. Simply not going to happen IMHO.
What if you tried to compress your 8 digit and 9 digit numbers (in your example) using more conventional compression methods? Could those (either both or at least one) be compressible so that your decompress routine decompresses the 8 & 9 digit numbers back to their original values before you apply n=a^2 + b
Or will a & b always be very random also when this is applied to a highly randomized n, thus making them also equally hard to compress?
Seems like if a & b are long enough, you might get lucky.
>
Unfortunately, it's so customized and woven into my hosting system, I don't know that I could ever pull it out into a package that other people could install and use. But it works for me.
>
We rolled out our own too and I really don't think of that as being a bad thing in any way.
Sure, it's not something that could be installed on other machines without major modifications, but we're not in the business of selling control panel software.
IMHO rolling your own is indeed the way to go. If something breaks (either bug in the control panel, or change in server config/software), you can correct it in-house very quickly. No need to wait on a vendor patch.
What if you add some new software (be it new or an upgrade which has new features) to servers... you can have your own control panel take advantage of that right away.
The person asking the question is just setting up shop, so a canned solution may appear very tempting. What if the wrong choice is made... Imagine going through changing control panel software. That tech support nightmare alone is well worth the time spend developing something "home brew".
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They do not even ship the same day your return is received anymore. It used to be that way, but I they receive a returned movie on say Monday, they won't ship the next one till Tuesday. At least in my case.
Quality of service has most certainly decreased.
Sharks with friggin lasers on their head!
The ODP/dmoz would probably be a good place to start.
Some actual web logs for these spammers :
adsl-64-173-20-67.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net - - [22/Oct/2002:04:04:33 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4636 "http://www.successmath.com/viral.shtml" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.5; Windows 98; 518.5546875)"
adsl-64-161-26-73.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net - - [27/Oct/2002:17:10:24 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 4636 "http://www.datashaping.com" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.5; Windows 98; 147.5830078125)"
There's plenty more, those are the domain names I could remember.
Marc
Guess it depends on how quickly they 'revise' but maybe the Way Back Machine could help here. Not sure if this would be "proof" from a legal standpoint.
I use Linux on my main desktop machine (and a good handful of servers) and I certainly prefer Linux (even on the desktop) to anything MS has produced so far...
However, is this not supposed to be about choice? If someone wants to use an MS solution, let them. Or MAC/OSX, Sun, Amiga or a TRS80 for all I care. Last time I checked, my Red Hat T-shirt said "revolution of choice", not "zealots will conquer the earth" nor "MS must fall".
Don't care about modding, this is getting stupid. Zealots (any cause) usually don't help the "cause".
GPG does have frontends and such, however you can also use the --openpgp flag to make output compatible with the vast majority of newer PGP software. This allows people to use their current PGP software without a problem.
GPG with the above flag powers encryption for the shopping cart technology we provide without any compatibility issues to date.
Check
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http://www.incidents.org/archives/intrusions/ms
Scroll down to 'Wanadoo.fr ISP Unresponsiveness Prompts Political Action' for more info. Action is being taken...
>So how hard would it be to make a linux box
>have really funky skinned windows with a >tech-looking background? I vaguely remember
I've seen some very funky stuff at themes.org.
Some of that would get close to the MovieOS.
Most of it would make sure I never get any
work done. I keep telling myself to download
some themes and create a user to play around
with them. Maybe someday...
Marc
Agreed.
Something most people here seem to forget is the simple fact that many (if not most) large server farms do not run on MS based products.
The whole 'open source will be made illegal' or 'Microsoft will control anything computer related' arguements are simply not going to fly.
No 'power that be' will all of sudden make anything non-MS illegal. That would pretty much shut down the net as we know it. Simply not going to happen IMHO.
>he's found a way to convert himself into a wave function.
Uh, oh, he best not get observed and have his wave function collapse...
Sure, until some script kiddie owns your brain :)
How is this "Insightful"?
What if you tried to compress your 8 digit and 9 digit numbers (in your example) using more conventional compression methods? Could those (either both or at least one) be compressible so that your decompress routine decompresses the 8 & 9 digit numbers back to their original values before you apply n=a^2 + b
Or will a & b always be very random also when this is applied to a highly randomized n, thus making them also equally hard to compress?
Seems like if a & b are long enough, you might get lucky.
>
Unfortunately, it's so customized and woven into my hosting system, I don't know that I could ever pull it out into a package that other people could install and use. But it works for me.
>
We rolled out our own too and I really don't think of that as being a bad thing in any way.
Sure, it's not something that could be installed on other machines without major modifications, but we're not in the business of selling control panel software.
IMHO rolling your own is indeed the way to go. If something breaks (either bug in the control panel, or change in server config/software), you can correct it in-house very quickly. No need to wait on a vendor patch.
What if you add some new software (be it new or an upgrade which has new features) to servers... you can have your own control panel take advantage of that right away.
The person asking the question is just setting up shop, so a canned solution may appear very tempting. What if the wrong choice is made... Imagine going through changing control panel software. That tech support nightmare alone is well worth the time spend developing something "home brew".
Just my two little copper colored coins...