I'm holding out for a SVG enabled Firebird build. Firebird is a lot nicer for me than the vanilla Mozilla, but compiling my own is, right now, not an option. I'm stuck on windows, which doesn't have the Gentoo ports system or anything!
Are you using "porn" synonymously with "child porn"? If you're not, it's pretty easy to find it. I mean, just go to google and search. Child porn, OTOH, is a lot harder to find. The closest I've ever come to finding any is seeing a few links on The Freedom Engine (the oldest freenet portal) to sites that claimed to have child porn. I never found out if they actually did (I'm not tasteless), but they were there.
The journalism on the subject ranks right up there in terms of reliability as the articles that use the terms "computer" and "hard drive" interchangably. My hard drive, by the way, has an 850 MHz Duron processor and 128 megabytes (128 million bytes) of memory.
That just shows how little you know about Windows Enterprise five nines reliability. You're just a typicall slashbot troll. You only need to hit the reset button once a day, and you have a modern enterprise server operating system with the GUI tightly integrated. Beat that, slashbot!
Yes, Franklin does have some ideas of which RMS and friends would wholeheartedly approve. Here's a quote from the autobiography you mentioned:
Gov'r. Thomas was so pleas'd with the construction of this stove,
as described in it, that he offered to give me a patent for the sole
vending of them for a term of years; but I declin'd it from a principle
which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., That, as we
enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours;
and this we should do freely and generously.
It turned out that someone in London made some modifications to his stove (and not really good ones either), got a patent, and made a small fortune.
I'm not really up on how SMTP works (except that I have sent some email via telnet), but wouldn't insecure formmails or open relays involve an smtp connection to the recieveing server somewhere along the line? I would think that the connections made by any mail server to a tarpitted server would be throttled, so it wouldn't matter if it was sent by a spammer's server or by even didgier means.
Normally tact can accomplish the same result if your user base is small enough. Call someone up and get them to run an anti-virus program, or turn Kazaa off, or something. If that fails to work, charging extra in the bills usually helps.
Here's an interesting thought experiment: imagine a program that would listen on a bunch of ports and spew random binary garbage back to any client that connected. Would it be detected as a P2P app if it listened on the ports that Kazaa listens on? Would the student have his/her internet connection automatically toyed with for what is essentially a prank pulled on anyone presumptious enough to try to connect to ports identified as open by a port scan? Would this be ethical?
/me goes off to write such a program. It would probably be trivial.
There are some very nice programs that are great for managing bandwidth. The one I'm most familiar with is ET/BWMGR, which can throttle bandwidth for Gnutella, Kazaa, Audiogalaxy, Morpheus and iMesh. I think that it's a much nicer idea to peacefully limit the bandwidth If it's bandwidth that you're worried about.
Of course, this doesn't work for, say, IRC fserves or eDonkey2000, but in those cases it is still possible to limit a student's total bandwidth, just not with the same amount of precision. After all, practicality is certainly the point, but that's no reason to be mean.
I like the TarProxy idea better: some major ISPs install software that will incrementally classify emails as they are recieved and throttle the bandwidth according to the spamminess of the message, in effect creating an artificial shortage of bandwidth for spammers.
Sometimes white noise in the background can help you get to sleep. However, I won't presume to tell you what sort of noise you want, so I'm just thinking: if you have large desk cabinet type things in your room it might be possible to have the noisy part of the computer in there, and maybe put some foam in there to deaden the sound some. Just a half-assed idea, but I suppose it might help.
Yeah, wordpad is nicer---but I hate all the "what format do you want to save as (default is.doc)?" stuff. I want something for plain text only. Oh well.
I went back to my room and stared lovingly into the login prompt on my FreeBSD machine for an hour after that experience.
It is beautiful, isn't it. Similarly, notepad makes me look lovingly at nano (or pico, or even emacs; not much experience with vi, but I'm sure I'd think of it lovingly too). Nano can do unix and dos line ending changes automatically; that alone sets it apart from the underfeatured abomination (to people who use \n and \r\n interchangeably) that is notepad. That "image manipulation software" that various printer makers dump on their unfortunate users makes me open the Gimp, as does Microsoft Picture It, which has got to be one of MS's worst blunders yet.
When I was first doing the main layout for my web site, I tried using fixed positioning for the sidebar. Unfortunately, it doesn't work in IE, so I had to scrap it. Similar things have happened when I used other perfectly valid HTML constructs that weren't supported by the web browser that delivers "The Web the Way You Want It".
The question is this: who do you want to view your pages: 95% of people (the IE users) or 99% of people (the users of IE or any other browser that supports the standards)? And if you go with the standards-based design, there's another advantage: you don't have to worry about browsers shifting beneath you and having to catch up. The standards are designed with future-proofing in mind, even if that makes them look more complicated than they should be.
Second rate support for hardware you bought happens on windows, too. For example, a certain piece of crap "printer" from HP comes with an installer that truly gives you the meaning of "unintuitive GUI design", documentation with numerous gramatical errors, a bunch of annoying superfluous software, a console program that is run at startup (in the annoying "put console programs on the taskbar" way that windows has), and a driver that doesn't work.
I actually found myself wishing for a decent printer and linux. I remembered the hoops I had to jump through on Gentoo to figure out how to use the LNE100TX drivers (I just hadn't figured out kernel modules, it was pretty straightforward) and found myself becoming nostalgic.
Of you break off a download in the middle, you can go to the same toorent file and dave it in the same location you did last time, it will check that this is, in fact, a partial download of the file you want, and it will resume.
If I were a reporter, I'd see how much I could politely portray the spammer as spamming rationalizing scum. For example, emphasize choice phrases like "'bulk marketing'" and say things like "nine computers spewing out spam in all directions as fast as the fast internet connection can carry it". Then I might have a few quotes from people running ISP's mail servers talking about how this really does cost other people money.
The NeXT people used the NX prefix a lot. Their string class was NXString, you had NXThis and NXThat, and it seemed like every Objective C class that they provided had NX in front of it. They later changed this to NS in a bunch of places, leading to code examples in older books becoming out of date.
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I'm holding out for a SVG enabled Firebird build. Firebird is a lot nicer for me than the vanilla Mozilla, but compiling my own is, right now, not an option. I'm stuck on windows, which doesn't have the Gentoo ports system or anything!
The journalism on the subject ranks right up there in terms of reliability as the articles that use the terms "computer" and "hard drive" interchangably. My hard drive, by the way, has an 850 MHz Duron processor and 128 megabytes (128 million bytes) of memory.
That just shows how little you know about Windows Enterprise five nines reliability. You're just a typicall slashbot troll. You only need to hit the reset button once a day, and you have a modern enterprise server operating system with the GUI tightly integrated. Beat that, slashbot!
I'm not really up on how SMTP works (except that I have sent some email via telnet), but wouldn't insecure formmails or open relays involve an smtp connection to the recieveing server somewhere along the line? I would think that the connections made by any mail server to a tarpitted server would be throttled, so it wouldn't matter if it was sent by a spammer's server or by even didgier means.
Normally tact can accomplish the same result if your user base is small enough. Call someone up and get them to run an anti-virus program, or turn Kazaa off, or something. If that fails to work, charging extra in the bills usually helps.
Hey, maybe it was just random.
/me goes off to write such a program. It would probably be trivial.
It would be a good idea, though, to tell all students to please install software like Ad-Aware and an anti-virus program.
Of course, this doesn't work for, say, IRC fserves or eDonkey2000, but in those cases it is still possible to limit a student's total bandwidth, just not with the same amount of precision. After all, practicality is certainly the point, but that's no reason to be mean.
I like the TarProxy idea better: some major ISPs install software that will incrementally classify emails as they are recieved and throttle the bandwidth according to the spamminess of the message, in effect creating an artificial shortage of bandwidth for spammers.
Sometimes white noise in the background can help you get to sleep. However, I won't presume to tell you what sort of noise you want, so I'm just thinking: if you have large desk cabinet type things in your room it might be possible to have the noisy part of the computer in there, and maybe put some foam in there to deaden the sound some. Just a half-assed idea, but I suppose it might help.
That's a nice word: "uniquity". Unique and ubiquitous. I like it. :-)
As for what you were actually saying, I agree completely. Shell scripts are easy (for simple things), though.
Yeah, wordpad is nicer---but I hate all the "what format do you want to save as (default is .doc)?" stuff. I want something for plain text only. Oh well.
It is beautiful, isn't it. Similarly, notepad makes me look lovingly at nano (or pico, or even emacs; not much experience with vi, but I'm sure I'd think of it lovingly too). Nano can do unix and dos line ending changes automatically; that alone sets it apart from the underfeatured abomination (to people who use \n and \r\n interchangeably) that is notepad. That "image manipulation software" that various printer makers dump on their unfortunate users makes me open the Gimp, as does Microsoft Picture It, which has got to be one of MS's worst blunders yet.
login:
Come on, I thought it was spelled fhqwghads!
That should work, but it raises another issue: can we namespace our identifiers, like I did with unix:info?
When I was first doing the main layout for my web site, I tried using fixed positioning for the sidebar. Unfortunately, it doesn't work in IE, so I had to scrap it. Similar things have happened when I used other perfectly valid HTML constructs that weren't supported by the web browser that delivers "The Web the Way You Want It".
The question is this: who do you want to view your pages: 95% of people (the IE users) or 99% of people (the users of IE or any other browser that supports the standards)? And if you go with the standards-based design, there's another advantage: you don't have to worry about browsers shifting beneath you and having to catch up. The standards are designed with future-proofing in mind, even if that makes them look more complicated than they should be.
I actually found myself wishing for a decent printer and linux. I remembered the hoops I had to jump through on Gentoo to figure out how to use the LNE100TX drivers (I just hadn't figured out kernel modules, it was pretty straightforward) and found myself becoming nostalgic.
Google, man!
If I were a reporter, I'd see how much I could politely portray the spammer as spamming rationalizing scum. For example, emphasize choice phrases like "'bulk marketing'" and say things like "nine computers spewing out spam in all directions as fast as the fast internet connection can carry it". Then I might have a few quotes from people running ISP's mail servers talking about how this really does cost other people money.
That's good. I might even consider changing its name from "Outhouse" to something a little closer to the official name, like "Outhook". ;-)
Of course, this is all IIRC.
They'd send out the same amount of email and get more money. But my filter will still get it. Bwahahahaha!