Fat lot of good that did. I was expecting something more like YaST. The last thing I need is for the damn package system to get in the way...either it should be easy-to-use so that you'll use it (YaST does a much better job here, and it deals with RPMs...you pick the packages you want from a menu and it installs/uninstalls as requested) or it should be non-existent (like with Slackware or LFS).
And the only reason people from slack like to compile from source... SIMPLE... you _can_ compile from source on slack... try outta the box compiling on RH or Mandrake...
I compiled a2ps from source yesterday on a Redh*t box at work as I haven't yet figured out how Redh*t's package-management system works from a command line (never installed Redh*t on any of my systems; I've only used SLS, Slackware, and SuSE). One of these days, I'll blow Redh*t off of it and build up Linux From Scratch on it, just like I did with the other Redh*t box that the previous admin allowed to be 0wn3d.
I suppose that it really is about the apps, but the one I'm thinking of is the Novell Client logon application. I understand that it was working back in Linux 2.0, but it's been broken as long as I've been using Linux. This means that I can use Linux at home, but not at the office. No printer, not network server, etc. (TCP/IP gets through though). So periodically I try out a new distribution at work, and then I go back to using Win95.
It's been a while since I did anything with NetWare, but with NCP and IPX support compiled into the kernel and IPX support enabled in NetWare 5, I was able to mount NetWare volumes under Linux. Your server username and password get passed in the parameters to mount in the same way you'd access an SMB share on an NT or Win2K box...it should be something like this:
mount -t ncp -o username=foo,password=bar//nwserver/vol1/mnt
Can't help with the printer problem, though, as I've never tried tackling that.
Plus I can't guarantee that any remote PC I may want to use will have SSH/VNC/RDC capabilities either.
PuTTY is small enough that you could stick the binary on your webserver and run it from anywhere. It won't do tunnelling, though...for that, you would need OpenSSH under Cygwin, which is a hefty download. (You don't need VNC to read mail or news, but you already knew that.)
That still doesn't solve your problem with SSH from your phone, though...
Having had cygwin installed on two boxes for the past six months, I find it to be more useless than a five-assed monkey and porting more stuff to it will not add any measure of usefulness.
That's odd...I've found sox and id3ed more useful than any equivalent native Win32 apps, and bash does more than cmd.exe (more powerful scripting, longer command lines for controlling stuff like vcdimager, etc.). OpenSSH under Cygwin is also useful for tunnelling through firewalls so you can use VNC to control Win32 boxen on remote networks...it works better here than pcAnywhere.
Ouch... you'll need to do some level-matching first. I don't recommend the ol' RadioShack patch cable approach.
"Speaker out" on most computers is really line-out. Ancient soundcards had onboard amplifiers that would drive 8-ohm loads directly, but next to nothing made in the past three or four years has been like that.
Another consideration, though, is that some soundcards will loop line-out to line-in on the card...no patch cable required. My work machine's equipped with a Conexant Riptide-based soundcard; two of the channels available under the recording level controls are "mono mixer" and "stereo mixer." If one of these two are selected, I can begin playing in Windows Media Player (or whatever) and start recording in Acoustica (or whatever) and capture whatever comes in.
I don't know if this connection is in the analog section of the soundcard or the digital section. I suspect it's in the analog part...but even if it is, looping the audio back in the mixer has to be at least a little bit better than having to loop it through a patch cable.
I tell you, I just don't understand the animosity toward this amazing technology. I was hoping the subject would come up again today after people had actually SEEN it, but no such luck.
Speaking of seeing it (or It?), Fox News has video (300 kbps Windows Media; other formats available through their main page). Interesting, but its speed and range are too limited for it to be useful.
Seriously, though...can anyone else see that this is a fairly desperate attempt at driving traffic to two VERY obscure websites?
Another question: how is a website not getting traffic construed as censorship? Either someone doesn't have a clue as to what really constitutes censorship or he's taking advantage of the almost-guaranteed knee-jerk reaction to cries of "censorship" that will come from certain individuals.
Since when did Paramount stop handing the SFX over to ILM?
Long ago in a galaxy far...um, waitaminit...
IIRC, it was either TVH or TUC...probably TVH, as I know they didn't do the FX for TFF (and that was one of the complaints I remember hearing leveled against that movie).
For that matter
Nielsen's own site looks kind of like it was created by somebody who just set up their first MSN dialup account a few days ago...:)
It wasn't that bad...my biggest complaint would be the godawful HUGE text size used. If you change your browser's text size from "medium" to "smaller," it looks much better.
(Freshmeat has had the same problem ever since it switched to its new software a few months back.)
Jakob seems to be stuck on information delivery in its distilled form
...as opposed to the flashy (or should that be Flashy?), content-free design that is becoming more and more common? If it's not useful (no content) or usable (difficult to navigate), what good is it?
he suggested the RIGHT side of the page for a navbar?
It could've been worse...he could've suggested moving the vertical scrollbar to the left side of the window (don't laugh...I've seen sites that do that), or changing the color of the scrollbar. Site designers who do those should be taken out back and shot.:-P
I haven't touched CSS much at all, I like what it does, so i'll probably have to sit down and learn it one day... It it something that can be coded by hand usually, or is there alot involved with CSS that you really need to have a program generate the code?
This site is an example of CSS done by hand (HTML too, while we're at it). I also did the redesign of this site in a similar manner (actually, I took the work I did on that site and reworked my personal site into a similar framework).
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Another thing most web designer seam to dislike is to write correct HTML code.
Many lusers think that because they know how to use FrontPage, they're "Web programmers" (as if the WWW is something that's "programmed"). They've probably never seen a line of HTML and wouldn't know it from shinola. Given these facts, do you think they would even recognize producing correct HTML as a goal at all, let alone a desirable goal when designing a website? As long as IE and Nutscrape (or maybe even just IE) display it, they figure they've done their jobs.
...one thing you can do is put two plugs on each end of the cable. Each run uses only two of the four pairs in the cable, so you're normally using only half of the cable. At home, I have two runs from the server closet that do this. One run goes to the TiVo (yes, it's on the network) and the cable modem in the living room and the other run goes to a 10/100 hub and one of the computers in the bedroom. I don't know if I'd do this in a business setting, but it's worked well enough for me for home use.
If you need >2 network runs on one cable, though, the coolness factor of this product can't be denied.:-)
I'd have to characterize that as a Nutscrape problem [..] Ditto for Eudora.
It's a Rogers problem: it breaks RFC 822.
RFC 822 governs the formatting of email messages (besides, it's been superseded by RFC 2822). In what way does RFC 822 (or 2822) have any bearing on authentication with a POP3 server? RFC 1939 describes POP3; the argument passed with the USER command is described as "a string identifying a mailbox (required), which is of significance ONLY to the server." No limit is set as to what goes there; as long as the server accepts it, it's valid. I could associate "euidfje@uitsjl.dslj.tep" with my mailbox and it would be perfectly valid under RFC 1939. Are you suggesting that all of the POP3 servers that take this form of authentication are broken?
(Gratuitous slams at Microsoft don't constitute an argument. Besides, ESR would be surprised to find that MS owns fetchmail.:-) )
but it sucks for actually reading news...the interface is rather cumbersome for moving through the messages.
What problem did you encountered while moving between messages?
Keyboard navigation didn't work for the most part. I'll admit that I haven't put a whole lot of time into it, so I might be missing something. Since I mainly use Agent only for snarfing mp3z and such, the interface annoyances are tolerable to that extent.
Furthermore, why the hell is my LOGIN USERNAME for the pop3 email server have to have the full email address (ie myaddy@rogers.com)? The '@' symbol in the login name broke 90% of the email clients out there including older versions of Eudora and ALL versions of Netscape
Back when I was using dial-up, Mindspring did the same thing...your POP3 login was $USERNAME@mindspring.com (or $USERNAME@$ISP_ACQUIRED_BY_MINDSPRING. Neither Lookout Express nor fetchmail had problems with it. If Nutscrape has problems with it, then I'd have to characterize that as a Nutscrape problem (one of thousands). Ditto for Eudora.
Cox@home is staying up, they're just going to be dropping the "@home" part.
Here in Las Vegas, they've always been Cox Express (well, that's the name they used after Cox acquired Prime Cable, anyway). There's a newer service they've been pushing lately called Interact that seems aimed at converting the AOLers (256 kbps down, 64 kbps up starting at $22), but I've had good luck with what they now consider commercial-grade service: $50 for 512 kbps down, 128 kbps up, one static IP, and no complaints if I run a webserver or mail server on it. The only time it's acted squirrelly was when Code Red and Nimda first hit, and those killed everybody. In any case, @Home has never had any involvement with cable-modem service here.
It was good enough for me to give up nn (and rn, and trn).
Agent does a pretty good job of downloading binaries, but it sucks for actually reading news...the interface is rather cumbersome for moving through the messages. For reading news, I haven't run across a WIMP newsreader that I like...they're barely tolerable at best.
trn rocks...always has (it and its predecessors), always will. Besides, if Windows eats itself, I don't have to worry about losing my killfiles and.newsrc since I run trn (and mutt) on a separate box that runs Linux.
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You forgot DESQview...with the right hardware, you could multitask under DOS on an XT! I used it with DR DOS 6 back in '91 on a 286-12 with 2 megs of RAM and EMS 4 support on the motherboard to run my BBS and let me do other stuff at the same time. Ran like a champ...never crashed, unlike certain other DOS shells that were somewhat common at the time... (...mumble...mumble...Windows 3.1...mumble...mumble...)
The truth of that matter is that you're paying for bandwidth, not the number of PCs connected. Bandwidth is easily controlled by existing head-end routing hardware. The incremental costs in providing service are running the connection to a house and then providing the bandwidth. Extra PCs all sharing the same amount of bandwidth have zero additional cost. Does the author understand the difference between packet switching and circuit switching?
Hmm...given that the author's an AOLer ("Press any key...where the hell's the 'Any' key?"), I kinda doubt that she would have a clue about the finer points of network operations.
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That still doesn't solve your problem with SSH from your phone, though...
Another consideration, though, is that some soundcards will loop line-out to line-in on the card...no patch cable required. My work machine's equipped with a Conexant Riptide-based soundcard; two of the channels available under the recording level controls are "mono mixer" and "stereo mixer." If one of these two are selected, I can begin playing in Windows Media Player (or whatever) and start recording in Acoustica (or whatever) and capture whatever comes in.
I don't know if this connection is in the analog section of the soundcard or the digital section. I suspect it's in the analog part...but even if it is, looping the audio back in the mixer has to be at least a little bit better than having to loop it through a patch cable.
IIRC, it was either TVH or TUC...probably TVH, as I know they didn't do the FX for TFF (and that was one of the complaints I remember hearing leveled against that movie).
(Freshmeat has had the same problem ever since it switched to its new software a few months back.)
If you need >2 network runs on one cable, though, the coolness factor of this product can't be denied. :-)
(Gratuitous slams at Microsoft don't constitute an argument. Besides, ESR would be surprised to find that MS owns fetchmail. :-) )
trn rocks...always has (it and its predecessors), always will. Besides, if Windows eats itself, I don't have to worry about losing my killfiles and .newsrc since I run trn (and mutt) on a separate box that runs Linux.
You forgot DESQview...with the right hardware, you could multitask under DOS on an XT! I used it with DR DOS 6 back in '91 on a 286-12 with 2 megs of RAM and EMS 4 support on the motherboard to run my BBS and let me do other stuff at the same time. Ran like a champ...never crashed, unlike certain other DOS shells that were somewhat common at the time... (...mumble...mumble...Windows 3.1...mumble...mumble...)