The members of the free world must act. We must dmonstrate that we are more prosperous and developed than this backward Communist threat. It is time for a new Cold War and we all must act if we are to beat back this Axis of Evil! I for one will gladly donate floor space in my basement and garage for the building of a super computer to help push their system off the top ten. I would also be willing to help in the development of a Quake client that would make good use of the resourses such a system could provide. Rise up free people of the world! Who's with me!
Wow. A lot of people are really confuse by "highlight = select". I love it. The huffman coding is excellent. I always get tripped up going back to windows frankly. I also get tripped up on some X apps at work that decided to no implement the standard mouse select stuff. (I mean the most basic highlight = select, middle click = paste)
It honestly hasn't been a problem for me in unix unless someone tries to over ride the behavior or screws up the primary/secondary buffer thing. For URLs in the browser, I just middle click in the window. For pasting 'over' text (like some have complained about) I just paste the new text when I want to go and then highlight the text I want to get rid of and delete it.
I know the select and pasting lacks consistency on unix , but I hope they never get rid of the simple highlight and paste mechanism. To me, doing it like Windows is not necessarily doing it right.
I like this site. What time do you go to bed and wake up? Are you a morning person or a night owl? When do you feel most alert? How easily do you wake up in the morning? How well do you sleep? etc.
Sort of like asking what card you are holding before before magically guessing what card you picked.
After asking all that, they draw a line graph that matches your answers. I didn't go on to the recommendation page, so I didn't get to see how many no-doze I need to take a day to be 'normal'.
For some reason, this brings to mind Winter Games on the Commadore 64. In the figure skating, I think you only had to get the first move right and then spend the rest of the run falling as much as possible. You'd get a perfect score and the Gold every time.
Wow! This green safe transportation is great and viable! I can get rid of my car and use one of these bikes to ride 30 miles to and from work each day!.... hmmm... Minnesota winters.... I-90 in the rain with 18 wheelers... Maybe not yet. I could use it here in town, but I walk here. It's the only exercise I get. Why kill it with a motor bike.
Heaven help us mid-westerners when the folks in the coastal cities realize that they can get by a lot of the time with lite transport like these bikes. They'll try and outlaw or oppresively tax the vehicles we still need just to get by out here in the sticks.
Personally, I've always wondered what you'd do if the bear rolled you over to the river....
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Holy cow. That is the most frightening GWB quotes I've ever read.
You didn't read closely, did ya. Or were you just looking for something to back up what you've already chosen to believe?
That wasn't dubbya. That was his dad. From what I've heard, (and mind you I haven't done a big investigation) this was pretty much an unsubstantiated comment credited to Bush (senior if you still weren't paying attention, just making sure) heard only by Robert I Sherman. Folks who favor Bush over this guy would tell you he's some sort of Atheist Crusader with an axe to grind. I don't like FUD, even when it's not directed at Linux.
What, exactly, does Microsoft have to offer in this area?
Maybe I'm wrong, but don't these devices need a computer to download music from the net and upload them onto the player? Probably a desktop box. Let's see, who's number 1 there....oh wait I know who!
Does Apple have good support for their player and format on Windows yet? (I'm asking, I don't run either.) Do they realize that their music business could be hurt if their software were to become flaky on windows for some unknown reason? Windows media player will ofcourse still work.
Now if both the Ipod software and Real's software goes casters up at the same time, that would be a little more fishy. (Not that I'm saying we've seen that happen on Windows before...) Plus Real could probably add Linux support easier. Then I might even care if either of those companies sink or swim.
Now my family won't have inthing special to do for the holiday week. I guess we need to turn the TV back on for now so it will mean something then.
Seriously though, I was hoping this was more of a boycott movement over the bad programming, overpriced networks, program length commercials and useless channels we are overwhelmed with. Ya ya, health is nice. But even us gluttons have reason to rebel.
Oh, and I was being serious about turning it off starting this week. TV has been right awful for quite some time now and we didn't feel the need to turn our children's brains to mush for it. My three year old son likes TV, but even he doesn't want his brain to turn to mush. I don't think he even knows what his brain is yet.
My wife can't even look towards the screen if I have a 3D program with a rotating camera view on screen. Think any first/third person shooter. Now her GUI can make her sick! Go windows!
Now that said, you have an interesting slant on ethics. By that mindset, a burglar is perfectly entitled to break into your apartment because your door could be kicked in. A theif can swipe your radio because, hey, it was only glass between him and what he wanted.
I like the glass analogy for pointing out that the hacker is still the one at fault. But I still think it valid to say the admins who weren't patching are still at some fault. At the very least it's more reasonable to blame them than the OS developers if the fix had been available.
To follow you analogy, blaming the developer for a break in via an old, known & fixed bug would be like blaiming the fellow who installed the window months ago because so thug put his fist through it.
Better analogy might be blaming Ford because your wheel fell off your car months after they sent you a recall notice for the problem. They made the initial mistake, but your at fault if they tell you and offer a fix that you ignore.
Granted, Microsoft takes a lot more heat than most vendors in these cases, but I think a healthy amount of that can be chalked up to social karma. They're big and a lot of people believe they did dirty things to get there. It takes decades and honest effort to live that sort of thing down. Also it appears to many that Microsoft has a greater number of severe vunerablities, that they have a history of treating it lightly and that it is too often a design flaw at the root of the problems.
Sounds like Gates and company are getting scared of the small players in the market now.
Gates and company used to be small players. It usually only takes a small player to stumble over the right idea to become suddenly important. Fools let those players become monopolies. Monopolies demolish those players before they become competition.
Apple could possibly become the company for computer music. Microsoft intends to be the company for computer anything. I assume you see their dilema.
I always though of a flanking manuver as being a subtle advance around on opponent to find a weak spot. Sounds to me like they're just firing up the ol' monopoly again to plow over some of the better alternatives.
Good Lord! This doesn't belong in an admin's tool bax. This is for script kiddies! I'm not sure who I should be more angry with. The folks STILL writing protocols that don't securely exchange passwords, the folks still using grossly insecure protocols or the folks who write all in one exploit kits like this.
Don't get me wrong, I want exploits published so venders get the kick in the arse they seem to need to actually fix something, but do they have to make password snagging so easy my grandmother could do it?
I look forward to the miniseries eagerly and I must admit I wonder how they'll write themselves out of the series finale where Crighton and Sun were literally vaporized.
I thought the fellow who shot them said something about them being 'condensed' or some such. There were the two piles of dust (and the engagement ring) left were they stood. I figure you just add water and shake. And what luck! They were in a boat on a lake.
I'm eager to see the series return too, but if it does, then that means I'll have to start watching TV again.
This is not a troll, but where was RMS and others?
It would seem that computer security would be important for the whole computing community , not just Microsoft, CA, and HP.
At the very least, you'd think they'd try to pull in some folks with a better security track record. Of course, that assumes their sincere.
Well, I don't know anyone who gambles online personally, but I do know that there must be at least one person. Who ever he was, he stole my brother's credit card number. Judging from the bill, he was very luck at online gambling. Now his luck with online theft on the other hand....
But I think it's obvious. They don't want your business. Mine either. So I don't buy from them. I concentrate on dealing with more ethical companies that demonstrate that they do want my business. To keep buying from the music cartel when in your position does not make you a consumer or even a fan. It makes you an abused junky.
After all the grief people get for wanting to protect their kids from an unsavory internet, and you have the nerve to ask how to protect you parents??!? If you can't trust them alone and you can't sit and watch every link they click on.....:-P
I guess it helps that microsoft has actively tried to blur the line between what's local and what on the network such that you can't tell if you are accepting a certificate or installing software. Either way, you can rest asured that it will be insecure either way.
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I keep seeing that the frame work and/or GUI is GPL, but not the codecs. Don't the codecs dynamically link in?
The members of the free world must act. We must dmonstrate that we are more prosperous and developed than this backward Communist threat. It is time for a new Cold War and we all must act if we are to beat back this Axis of Evil! I for one will gladly donate floor space in my basement and garage for the building of a super computer to help push their system off the top ten. I would also be willing to help in the development of a Quake client that would make good use of the resourses such a system could provide. Rise up free people of the world! Who's with me!
Wow. A lot of people are really confuse by "highlight = select". I love it. The huffman coding is excellent. I always get tripped up going back to windows frankly. I also get tripped up on some X apps at work that decided to no implement the standard mouse select stuff. (I mean the most basic highlight = select, middle click = paste)
It honestly hasn't been a problem for me in unix unless someone tries to over ride the behavior or screws up the primary/secondary buffer thing. For URLs in the browser, I just middle click in the window. For pasting 'over' text (like some have complained about) I just paste the new text when I want to go and then highlight the text I want to get rid of and delete it.
I know the select and pasting lacks consistency on unix , but I hope they never get rid of the simple highlight and paste mechanism. To me, doing it like Windows is not necessarily doing it right.
I like this site. What time do you go to bed and wake up? Are you a morning person or a night owl? When do you feel most alert? How easily do you wake up in the morning? How well do you sleep? etc.
Sort of like asking what card you are holding before before magically guessing what card you picked.
After asking all that, they draw a line graph that matches your answers. I didn't go on to the recommendation page, so I didn't get to see how many no-doze I need to take a day to be 'normal'.
For some reason, this brings to mind Winter Games on the Commadore 64. In the figure skating, I think you only had to get the first move right and then spend the rest of the run falling as much as possible. You'd get a perfect score and the Gold every time.
Heaven help us mid-westerners when the folks in the coastal cities realize that they can get by a lot of the time with lite transport like these bikes. They'll try and outlaw or oppresively tax the vehicles we still need just to get by out here in the sticks.
Personally, I've always wondered what you'd do if the bear rolled you over to the river....
You didn't read closely, did ya. Or were you just looking for something to back up what you've already chosen to believe?
That wasn't dubbya. That was his dad. From what I've heard, (and mind you I haven't done a big investigation) this was pretty much an unsubstantiated comment credited to Bush (senior if you still weren't paying attention, just making sure) heard only by Robert I Sherman. Folks who favor Bush over this guy would tell you he's some sort of Atheist Crusader with an axe to grind. I don't like FUD, even when it's not directed at Linux.
Don't anyone tell him they use electricty too. Or oxygen. I don't think he'd be able to live with that one.
Maybe I'm wrong, but don't these devices need a computer to download music from the net and upload them onto the player? Probably a desktop box. Let's see, who's number 1 there....oh wait I know who!
Does Apple have good support for their player and format on Windows yet? (I'm asking, I don't run either.) Do they realize that their music business could be hurt if their software were to become flaky on windows for some unknown reason? Windows media player will ofcourse still work.
Now if both the Ipod software and Real's software goes casters up at the same time, that would be a little more fishy. (Not that I'm saying we've seen that happen on Windows before...) Plus Real could probably add Linux support easier. Then I might even care if either of those companies sink or swim.
God designed it. We call them dogs. They can find anything. If the desired object is not ment to be eaten, the an infant does pretty well too.
This story seems oddly familiar.
Now my family won't have inthing special to do for the holiday week. I guess we need to turn the TV back on for now so it will mean something then.
Seriously though, I was hoping this was more of a boycott movement over the bad programming, overpriced networks, program length commercials and useless channels we are overwhelmed with. Ya ya, health is nice. But even us gluttons have reason to rebel.
Oh, and I was being serious about turning it off starting this week. TV has been right awful for quite some time now and we didn't feel the need to turn our children's brains to mush for it. My three year old son likes TV, but even he doesn't want his brain to turn to mush. I don't think he even knows what his brain is yet.
My wife can't even look towards the screen if I have a 3D program with a rotating camera view on screen. Think any first/third person shooter. Now her GUI can make her sick! Go windows!
I like the glass analogy for pointing out that the hacker is still the one at fault. But I still think it valid to say the admins who weren't patching are still at some fault. At the very least it's more reasonable to blame them than the OS developers if the fix had been available.
To follow you analogy, blaming the developer for a break in via an old, known & fixed bug would be like blaiming the fellow who installed the window months ago because so thug put his fist through it.
Better analogy might be blaming Ford because your wheel fell off your car months after they sent you a recall notice for the problem. They made the initial mistake, but your at fault if they tell you and offer a fix that you ignore.
Granted, Microsoft takes a lot more heat than most vendors in these cases, but I think a healthy amount of that can be chalked up to social karma. They're big and a lot of people believe they did dirty things to get there. It takes decades and honest effort to live that sort of thing down. Also it appears to many that Microsoft has a greater number of severe vunerablities, that they have a history of treating it lightly and that it is too often a design flaw at the root of the problems.
Maybe now I can final run all of my Linux games on Windows.
Maybe now I can play all of my Linux games on Windows.
Gates and company used to be small players. It usually only takes a small player to stumble over the right idea to become suddenly important. Fools let those players become monopolies. Monopolies demolish those players before they become competition.
Apple could possibly become the company for computer music. Microsoft intends to be the company for computer anything. I assume you see their dilema.
I always though of a flanking manuver as being a subtle advance around on opponent to find a weak spot. Sounds to me like they're just firing up the ol' monopoly again to plow over some of the better alternatives.
Don't get me wrong, I want exploits published so venders get the kick in the arse they seem to need to actually fix something, but do they have to make password snagging so easy my grandmother could do it?
I'm eager to see the series return too, but if it does, then that means I'll have to start watching TV again.
Well, I don't know anyone who gambles online personally, but I do know that there must be at least one person. Who ever he was, he stole my brother's credit card number. Judging from the bill, he was very luck at online gambling. Now his luck with online theft on the other hand....
But I think it's obvious. They don't want your business. Mine either. So I don't buy from them. I concentrate on dealing with more ethical companies that demonstrate that they do want my business. To keep buying from the music cartel when in your position does not make you a consumer or even a fan. It makes you an abused junky.
After all the grief people get for wanting to protect their kids from an unsavory internet, and you have the nerve to ask how to protect you parents??!? If you can't trust them alone and you can't sit and watch every link they click on..... :-P
I guess it helps that microsoft has actively tried to blur the line between what's local and what on the network such that you can't tell if you are accepting a certificate or installing software. Either way, you can rest asured that it will be insecure either way.