>Sorry, but no. First...They get all the power of exchange viruses coupled with the ease of IIS viruses for an optimal user experience...
Ximian connector is great for those of us in large (28,000 (MS licenced) seat companies, in my case) where Windows file sharing was dealt with years ago by the lovely SAMBA folks,.doc and.xls compatability was dealt with by the lovely openoffice.org/kword people, but who couldn't ditch the MS desktop (without going to Exchange over Web) interface, for calendaring, address lookup and mail.
Connector let me run an under-the-radar Free desktop, and *still* accept those 3 hour meetings about 'the future of the department' (woot)
It does *not* allow 'exchange viruses coupled with the ease of IIS viruses', as I am running a UNIX-like OS
Connector doesn't make Windows-using-colleagues *more* prone to these, or me *in any way* prone to these, it just allows (Exchange based) mail and calendar sharing across platforms that previously couldn't do this
It isn't a Brave Gnu world, but it sure as hell doesn't make 'exchange viruses' (what on earth are those? since when did a virus *run* in an MTA?) do anything at all to my GNU/Linux/ Solaris desktop
It just makes it play nice with the 99.98% of my company that are running (possibly prone to virus infection) other OSs.
You *obviously* aren't the target market. I am, and I am happy, as now I don't either have to pay for it myself, or try to persuade an AR (authorised requestor) to pay for it for me.
Still doesn't run 'exchange viruses' in evolution, though!
>Why isn't there a Slashbox that lets me ignore all "reviews" written by Eugenia Loli-Queru. She's proved time and time again that she couldn't review herself out of a paper cup.
Too fscking right
OSnews - for when you're interested in:
* randomly changing distros (every *day*?)
* not bothering to do any googling whatsoever ('flash doesn't work out of the box! neither does java! neither does Real! - er, just like it doesn't on windows out of the box)
* not caring at all about 'free' - ('why don't Redhat distribute xmms with mp3?)
* not doing any real work, or running benchmarks, or anything that says anything more than 'cool, good eye candy, boot up logo's a bit old though')
also,their modding down system is based on whether or not she likes what you say
it's an appalling site that i avoid where possible
All good stuff, and I'm sure you mean well, except for the last bit:
' Personally I think you should have to pass an exam before you can vote.... if you can't answer questions... you don't fucking deserve to be able to vote'
Sounds like David Blunkett speaking, to me at least. Has his charming tone, his hatred of civil liberties and his 'tests' for 'citizenship' nonsense, all in one simple idea.
you say ''Cox is quoted in the article as saying, 'I think it's implicit in the way that a Web site is produced that our standards of accuracy are lower. Besides, immediacy is more important than accuracy, and humor is more important than accuracy.'''
Well, when I started using linux, I couldn't get on the 'Net with it (winmodem grrr) - so *that's* secure, yeah:P
In all seriousness, usability and power do not have to come with inbuilt insecurities - look at a pro knife (Stanley, or something)
It's both more powerful, and more safe, compared to an ordinary kitchen knife
Moving away from metaphors, to take something like a MUA (Evolution?) or a browser (moz?), what are the points of failure? Most of these - surely - ar at points that end users don't actually want to use -, say, loading images from other sites, or randomly executing a random attachment
Enabling these holes isn't what makes something easier to use - modifying, say, 'add sender to address book' *whilst* ensuring that that isn't itslef a new vuln. is what counts
> But does invading two countries really make you conclude that Bush wants to invade the world, making it into one country, like Hitler?
Hitler didn't want to do that ('invade the world, making it into one country').
You've watched too many SF/ horror films, and don't know your history.
He wanted 'lebensraum' (room to live) and wanted expansion on the Eastern front, appeasement on the Western Front, non-aggression pacts with others, to exterminate 'races' he considered 'impure', but did NOT want to 'invade the world, making it one country'
> Does anybody know why they stopped putting Talkback into the OS X pre-release versions since 1.6 alpha
'cos OS X users don't bother reporting bugs - why bother when you can shell out 100 GBP/ 180 USD/ year, and have someone else fix them for you in the next OSX point release
it's *exceedingly unlikely* that the Mark Maughan who's currently top of the google search is the same guy - a (US-based?) 'South Bay accountant' - who's suing google
> those countries are either state sponsors of terrorism, genocidal regimes, or rogue nations pursuing WMD. If that's not evil, I'd love to see how you define "good."
I'd love to see you define 'state sponsors of terrorism', 'genocidal regimes' and (especially nice) 'rogue nations pursuing WMD'
As far as I'm concerned, many of the countries of the world fall into these categories. You probably disagree, but I'm sure (I hope) that you agree that even by those (babyish) definitions, many more countries could also fit into that definition - so why those 3?
> going around the UN was arguably the right thing to do.
Right. Just like going round the League of Nations was right? Jesus you don't know your history
> If those "rules" include reining in WMD proliferators and demolishing terrorist states, screw the opposition; The Right Thing (TM) isn't always the easy or popular thing. If finding and killing terrorists before they can strike is wrong, I don't want to be right.
Good thing - because you're not.
> If they're terrorists, they have almost no rights.
Look, you don't understand. Anyone (not many) left in Britain that didn't hate America now hates it, as you have just released from captivity at Camp X-Ray some poor British guy (web designer) who you held hostage for 2 years, tortured, starved, and beat, ritually - and then let him go, with no charges, no apology, no nothing
I can *just* about accept (if not agree with) your attitude if the guy was guilty, but if he was, why let him go? If he wasn't, then, um, isn't that (2 years torture and false imprisonment) a real 'war crime'
> It's OK that you hate Bush... really.
Yeah, it is. really.
Hating America, and Americans, is increasingly easy these days. Because of fuckers like you. We know we shouldn't, but jesus, you're loud obnoxious pricks.
The US bleats about its place as the global policeman, and is happy to remove right after right of its own citizens. That's up to you - but don't fuck with the rest of the world.
Introduce sane security checks on your aircraft (still pathetic, btw), stop monitoring every-useless-bit-of-net/cell-traffic you think *may* be important, and focus on *why* other countries want to blow you to smithereens.
Oh, btw, there was a bomb in Spain this week. Spain aren't planning on locking up random Americans because they 'might' have had something to do with it
> Anyone know if these things are good places to pick up chicks?
no, they're not
> Mind if I take a peek at your code?"
you don't wanna see their 'code'
helix is great
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The recent Helix milestones are great
Clean looking player, no bloat, great quality, plugin gets even the most troublesome pages (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod, for example) working just sweet
There's a 0.2.1 Milestone (crack out the party hats - we got a 0.2.1 milestone!, but I digress..) out. There are Solaris, Symbian (!), GNU/ Linux RPMs and tars with installer, as well as the src, obviously
There are still shed loads of forms to click and agree to, you gotta signup, etc, etc. but they *say* this is part of their new, GPL-friendly and OSI-certified ways.
the important bit of the quote is 'any televisions operated by their own internal batteries'
basically, one licence covers all TVs *in* that property, all TVs used at a temporary location (say, on a caravan holiday) by members of that property if they're not *in* that property and *all* mobile TVs without mains power
I assume your cell-with-sat-receiver has some sort of battery power, god knows about the battery life though:)
> here is, however, a very good reason for this mindset. At my job, if the spec isn't clear, the programmer fires off an email and the owner of the spec sees it and replies pretty much immediately. Since the Indian programmer is working essentially the opposite hours as the spec owner, his questions have a full day turn around time.
Yep, this all makes sense. What's it got to do with "Indians"?
If the OP had said
"telecomuting/ outsourced programmers have to work without direct supervision, so often proceed without checking things Back At the Office" that would have made sense too.
But they didn't. So it read like dumb, casual racism.
DVR vendor/service provider, TiVo, generated a fair amount of news at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas:
TiVo's technology-licensing business seems to be becoming an increasingly important element of the company's overall strategy. It announced that Korean consumer-electronics manufacturer, Humax, which is seeking to establish a foothold for itself in the US, will later this year unveil 2 TiVo- powered DVD recorders for the US market (the devices, which will offer home-networking capabilities, progressive scan output, and DV input, are scheduled to be available in retail by the fall), as well as 2 new TiVo Series2 DVR's, featuring 80 hours and 250 hours of storage respectively (these are scheduled to be available in retail at the beginning of the 2nd quarter). TiVo also revealed that it has extended its existing licensing agreement with Toshiba, which plans to launch a number of new TiVo- powered devices later this year, including a DVD recorder that is expected to be available in the fall: last year, Toshiba introduced a TiVo-powered product, the SD-H400, which combines a DVD player with a DVR, and which offers around 80 hours of storage. (Note: Pioneer also has a licensing agreement in place with TiVo, and last year introduced 2 DVD recorder/VCR hybrid products, the DVR-810H and the Elite DVR-57H.) In addition, TiVo said that Hughes, Philips, RCA and Samsung will this year all offer products which combine satellite receivers with TiVo-powered DVR's, and which are designed to support the "DirecTV with TiVo" service offered by satellite-TV provider, DirecTV. (Note: the "DirecTV with TiVo" service is becoming increasingly important to TiVo's bottom line: in its most recent fiscal quarter, TiVo added 150,000 net new subscriptions through DirecTV--representing growth of nearly 100% over the previous quarter and nearly 10 times the number of DirecTV with TiVo subscriptions added during the year-ago quarter--compared to only 59,000 net new stand-alone TiVo service subscriptions.)
It showcased a new product of its own that is targeted at "DirecTV with TiVo" customers, and that combines an HD satellite receiver with an HDTV DVR. The new product, which is called simply the "DirecTV HD DVR," will be commercially available during the current quarter. It features 4 tuners, and can automatically detect whether an incoming signal is satellite- based or off-air, and then engage the appropriate tuner for recording.
It said that it plans to launch a mobile version of its service next fall, dubbed "TiVoToGo." Among other things, the new service will allow TiVo subscribers who have purchased the company's "Home Media Option" (note: the TiVo Home Media Option, which was unveiled at the 2003 Consumer Electronics Show, is designed to transform the company's Series2 box into an "entertainment center." Among other things, it allows consumers to
use their TiVo remote control to stream video, music and photos stored on their PC directly to their TV,
schedule recordings on their DVR remotely via the Internet, and
access a library of digital content which TiVo is able to offer its subscribers through various partnerships) to transfer programs stored on their DVR's hard drive to any PC or laptop: if their computer is equipped with a DVD burner, they will then also be able to transfer those programs to DVD.
According to TiVo, TiVoToGo will be made possible by a "TiVo Content Security Key" (a small piece of hardware which viewers must plug into their PC whenever they are watching or recording TiVo content) and by TiVo-enabled versions of the MyDVD and CinePlayer applications from DVD-creation-software specialist, Sonic Solutions: the Sonic Solutions apps, which will be installed on the customer's computer, are designed not only to allow recorded programs to be played back on a computer or burned to a D
What is it with these guys and their fvwm love, eh?
esr
I used to use fvwm2, and tuned my desktop design very carefully to get maximum use out of the screen space. (Now I use GNOME + Sawfish, which is just as effective but harder to bundle up a configuration for).
This Fvwm2 setup file provides the basic emacs-centered environment that I have found most comfortable on my standalone machine at home. Basically it gives me a big Emacs window at the left and a slightly smaller XTerm at the right, together with a clock and CPU monitor and a few buttons for accessing independent desktops.
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>Sorry, but no. First...They get all the power of exchange viruses coupled with the ease of IIS viruses for an optimal user experience...
.doc and .xls compatability was dealt with by the lovely openoffice.org/kword people, but who couldn't ditch the MS desktop (without going to Exchange over Web) interface, for calendaring, address lookup and mail.
Ximian connector is great for those of us in large (28,000 (MS licenced) seat companies, in my case) where Windows file sharing was dealt with years ago by the lovely SAMBA folks,
Connector let me run an under-the-radar Free desktop, and *still* accept those 3 hour meetings about 'the future of the department' (woot)
It does *not* allow 'exchange viruses coupled with the ease of IIS viruses', as I am running a UNIX-like OS
Connector doesn't make Windows-using-colleagues *more* prone to these, or me *in any way* prone to these, it just allows (Exchange based) mail and calendar sharing across platforms that previously couldn't do this
It isn't a Brave Gnu world, but it sure as hell doesn't make 'exchange viruses' (what on earth are those? since when did a virus *run* in an MTA?) do anything at all to my GNU/Linux/ Solaris desktop
It just makes it play nice with the 99.98% of my company that are running (possibly prone to virus infection) other OSs.
You *obviously* aren't the target market. I am, and I am happy, as now I don't either have to pay for it myself, or try to persuade an AR (authorised requestor) to pay for it for me.
Still doesn't run 'exchange viruses' in evolution, though!
>Why isn't there a Slashbox that lets me ignore all "reviews" written by Eugenia Loli-Queru. She's proved time and time again that she couldn't review herself out of a paper cup.
,their modding down system is based on whether or not she likes what you say
Too fscking right
OSnews - for when you're interested in:
* randomly changing distros (every *day*?)
* not bothering to do any googling whatsoever ('flash doesn't work out of the box! neither does java! neither does Real! - er, just like it doesn't on windows out of the box)
* not caring at all about 'free' - ('why don't Redhat distribute xmms with mp3?)
* not doing any real work, or running benchmarks, or anything that says anything more than 'cool, good eye candy, boot up logo's a bit old though')
also
it's an appalling site that i avoid where possible
They will if they've got a USB Flashdrive watch as well as the Pacman costumes, won't they?
All good stuff, and I'm sure you mean well, except for the last bit:
' Personally I think you should have to pass an exam before you can vote.... if you can't answer questions... you don't fucking deserve to be able to vote'
Sounds like David Blunkett speaking, to me at least. Has his charming tone, his hatred of civil liberties and his 'tests' for 'citizenship' nonsense, all in one simple idea.
brilliant:
... 'I think it's implicit in the way that a Web site is produced that our standards of accuracy are lower, he said. "Besides, immediacy is more important than accuracy, and humor is more important than accuracy."'
you say ''Cox is quoted in the article as saying, 'I think it's implicit in the way that a Web site is produced that our standards of accuracy are lower. Besides, immediacy is more important than accuracy, and humor is more important than accuracy.'''
No she ISN'T
From the article
'The rules of the blogosphere demand displaying corrections quickly and prominently, said Mr. Denton [the publisher of wonkette]
There'll be a regular showing of 'BSOD', followed by a film at 11
Real posters/ (billboards) don't crash
Well, when I started using linux, I couldn't get on the 'Net with it (winmodem grrr) - so *that's* secure, yeah :P
In all seriousness, usability and power do not have to come with inbuilt insecurities - look at a pro knife (Stanley, or something)
It's both more powerful, and more safe, compared to an ordinary kitchen knife
Moving away from metaphors, to take something like a MUA (Evolution?) or a browser (moz?), what are the points of failure? Most of these - surely - ar at points that end users don't actually want to use -, say, loading images from other sites, or randomly executing a random attachment
Enabling these holes isn't what makes something easier to use - modifying, say, 'add sender to address book' *whilst* ensuring that that isn't itslef a new vuln. is what counts
Tt does - it was the first thing i thought when i saw the headline
:)
It always makes me laugh when i see Sim newspaper/ 'event' style speech like that
> particularly in cultures where morality doesn't
> hold much sway -- read widespread corruption, AIDS.
wtf has AIDS got to do with morality, or corruption?
It's a disease. Oh, unless you mean 'dem homosexuals or 'dem drug addicts gone done something wrong
You don't mean that, surely.
so what did you mean?
> But does invading two countries really make you conclude that Bush wants to invade the world, making it into one country, like Hitler?
Hitler didn't want to do that ('invade the world, making it into one country').
You've watched too many SF/ horror films, and don't know your history.
He wanted 'lebensraum' (room to live) and wanted expansion on the Eastern front, appeasement on the Western Front, non-aggression pacts with others, to exterminate 'races' he considered 'impure', but did NOT want to 'invade the world, making it one country'
> Does anybody know why they stopped putting Talkback into the OS X pre-release versions since 1.6 alpha
'cos OS X users don't bother reporting bugs - why bother when you can shell out 100 GBP/ 180 USD/ year, and have someone else fix them for you in the next OSX point release
it's *exceedingly unlikely* that the Mark Maughan who's currently top of the google search is the same guy - a (US-based?) 'South Bay accountant' - who's suing google
The top link returned atm takes you here (http://www.polo-gt.co.uk/mk4/mmaughan.htm - a UK site about VW Polo cars
The UK Mark Maughan has a Mk 4 Polo, fyi.
He's probably not a 'litigious schmuck'
> After checking the Wikipedia...
woot, let's get straigh to the source, huh?
> those countries are either state sponsors of terrorism, genocidal regimes, or rogue nations pursuing WMD. If that's not evil, I'd love to see how you define "good."
I'd love to see you define 'state sponsors of terrorism', 'genocidal regimes' and (especially nice) 'rogue nations pursuing WMD'
As far as I'm concerned, many of the countries of the world fall into these categories. You probably disagree, but I'm sure (I hope) that you agree that even by those (babyish) definitions, many more countries could also fit into that definition - so why those 3?
> going around the UN was arguably the right thing to do.
Right. Just like going round the League of Nations was right? Jesus you don't know your history
> If those "rules" include reining in WMD proliferators and demolishing terrorist states, screw the opposition; The Right Thing (TM) isn't always the easy or popular thing. If finding and killing terrorists before they can strike is wrong, I don't want to be right.
Good thing - because you're not.
> If they're terrorists, they have almost no rights.
Look, you don't understand. Anyone (not many) left in Britain that didn't hate America now hates it, as you have just released from captivity at Camp X-Ray some poor British guy (web designer) who you held hostage for 2 years, tortured, starved, and beat, ritually - and then let him go, with no charges, no apology, no nothing
I can *just* about accept (if not agree with) your attitude if the guy was guilty, but if he was, why let him go? If he wasn't, then, um, isn't that (2 years torture and false imprisonment) a real 'war crime'
> It's OK that you hate Bush... really.
Yeah, it is. really.
Hating America, and Americans, is increasingly easy these days. Because of fuckers like you. We know we shouldn't, but jesus, you're loud obnoxious pricks.
The US bleats about its place as the global policeman, and is happy to remove right after right of its own citizens. That's up to you - but don't fuck with the rest of the world.
Introduce sane security checks on your aircraft (still pathetic, btw), stop monitoring every-useless-bit-of-net/cell-traffic you think *may* be important, and focus on *why* other countries want to blow you to smithereens.
Oh, btw, there was a bomb in Spain this week. Spain aren't planning on locking up random Americans because they 'might' have had something to do with it
Mandrake?
t y
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/10/communi
they just want to have more than 10 files open at once.
> Anyone know if these things are good places to pick up chicks?
no, they're not
> Mind if I take a peek at your code?"
you don't wanna see their 'code'
The recent Helix milestones are great
Clean looking player, no bloat, great quality, plugin gets even the most troublesome pages (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod, for example) working just sweet
There's a 0.2.1 Milestone (crack out the party hats - we got a 0.2.1 milestone!, but I digress..) out. There are Solaris, Symbian (!), GNU/ Linux RPMs and tars with installer, as well as the src, obviously
you can get it here
There are still shed loads of forms to click and agree to, you gotta signup, etc, etc. but they *say* this is part of their new, GPL-friendly and OSI-certified ways.
> How hard is it to use a bluetooth phone as a
> modem (you know, connect to the internet through
> it)?
Good clarification. thought you meant use it as a modem to...er..connect to the Internet
> Where can I find directions on that?
Google?
here
or even
Linux
Holy cow, there are rules here? For the love of God, tell me where to find them!
back and forth, like tennis :)
:)
the important bit of the quote is 'any televisions operated by their own internal batteries'
basically, one licence covers all TVs *in* that property, all TVs used at a temporary location (say, on a caravan holiday) by members of that property if they're not *in* that property and *all* mobile TVs without mains power
I assume your cell-with-sat-receiver has some sort of battery power, god knows about the battery life though
not true
'The TV Licence for your main address will, however, automatically cover any TV used in a touring caravan, vehicle or boat, or any televisions operated by their own internal batteries.'
> here is, however, a very good reason for this mindset. At my job, if the spec isn't clear, the programmer fires off an email and the owner of the spec sees it and replies pretty much immediately. Since the Indian programmer is working essentially the opposite hours as the spec owner, his questions have a full day turn around time.
Yep, this all makes sense. What's it got to do with "Indians"?
If the OP had said
"telecomuting/ outsourced programmers have to work without direct supervision, so often proceed without checking things Back At the Office" that would have made sense too.
But they didn't. So it read like dumb, casual racism.
> (anecdotally, from many accounts, Indians tend not to raise questions, or think independently when a design sucks, etc.)
jesus christ that's such a racist thing to say, 'from many accounts' or not.
> Worse still - with the decimation of these
> high-paying jobs, comes an overall lowering of the
> standard of living here in the US.
what a bad thing that is. i mean the US really needs to *raise* it's standard of living compared to, say, India, doesn't it
This is wealth redistribution in action, transferring (employee - the employer wealth stays in the US!) wealth from rich US to poor India.
If you don't like it, join a union.
DVR vendor/service provider, TiVo, generated a fair amount of news at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas:
What is it with these guys and their fvwm love, eh?
esr
I used to use fvwm2, and tuned my desktop design very carefully to get maximum use out of the screen space. (Now I use GNOME + Sawfish, which is just as effective but harder to bundle up a configuration for).
screenie
dotfile
D. Knuth
This Fvwm2 setup file provides the basic emacs-centered environment
that I have found most comfortable on my standalone machine at home.
Basically it gives me a big Emacs window at the left and a slightly
smaller XTerm at the right, together with a clock and CPU monitor
and a few buttons for accessing independent desktops.
screenie
dotfile