> Whenever I receive a Word document I immediately > sent it right back to them and ask that they > send it in a standard format
Way to go! Isn't it possible to do this with procmail? Like, rejecting.exe files (for the viruses, and being otherwise useless) and.doc files. One could even send automatically a nice error message
"Error: unsupported attachment format".
After all, it IS an error to mail these things around;-)
They're gonna be sorry still, mark my words. (I wonder if it takes a colour copier to bluescreen?:)
As Count Axel Oxenstierna wrote already in the 17th century in a letter, "You do not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is ruled". Little has changed.
Yeah... we can say now "Unix -- a Linux-like OS family".
And about "World domination", always found that kind of... well, why not "World liberation?" A "monopoly" of freedom is qualitatively different from any other monopoly. A commonwealth is not an empire.
I would rather guess that what is meant is 10% of the code's monetary value. That's what usually applies when stating any product's ``home-grown-ness''. But I may be wrong; read the treaty/regulation text.
If it is 10% of money value, it's simple: The code itself if worth 0,00 Sch. on the free market. It's the packaging that adds monetary value. So use a non-US distribution, like SuSE or PHT.
Anyway, best is probably to teach the Iranians to burn their own distro's. It's about time they learned it, and might even be the start of a good business!
Of all the hundreds of comments, just *three* even play with the idea that there may be a cause-and-effect relationship between lax gun laws and kid serial killers.
...here in Linux's Own Country it's just as bad. Wherever you go, windows flying in your face.
One colleague, a highly competent professional scientist, even managed to give me an MS Word file where the section headers had been written using "finger paint" -- write section number, press space bar, type header text, paint header with mouse and make it bold. All in "normal" style, of course.
two products I read about for Unix/emacs. OK so they are not Web browsers... but AsTeR reads LaTeX in a structured way. The idea is not new... of course the implementation may well be.
Why would you want to go to the server room to do things with your server? You can have your own GUI on your own PC with Netscape... to administrate Samba remotely, a possibility now standard included.
So, no need to run X on the server. Just Apache, which one probably would do anyway. Or an X-server on your PC. There's many ways to do a thing. But bolting a GUI to a server OS is *really* crazy.
The French have a national informatics and automation research institute. How many countries have that? AND it participates actively in the w3c work. AND it has produced some great free software, such as Scilab, Toth, LyX (contributing),.... and LOTS, LOTS more.
Actually it's not so bad. The drag comes from the same material as the fuel you're collecting -- probably by a magnetic field system of kinds. It would have to be ionized (UV source?) to be effectively collected.
The energy that hydrogen fuel can release is of order 0.1% of rest mass. This means
v^2 / 2c^2 = 0.001 ==> v = 0.04 c or 4% of the speed of light. Alpha Centauri in 100 years. No relativistic time dilatation yet to speak of... probably a job for robots. Which will be culturally indistinguishable from biological humans by the time this becomes actual:-)
(A little practical problem is that ordinary hydrogen fusion is a weak interaction, not like the deuterium fusion in our test installations here on Earth. Hopefully they'll find some suitable catalytic process:-)
The UNAVCO (University Navstar Consortium) has prepared a programme package TEQC (Translation, Editing, Quality Control) for reading and formatting to RINEX (the open standard for geodetic GPS data) from a considerable number of both geodetic and simpler GPS receivers. It can read both stored data files and input from the serial port.
This software is (currently) binary only, but free and Linux is one of the primary platforms supported.
Hmmm. Granted that it's not about state rights, then what is it about? It's there for a reason. No other statement of individuals' rights contains such an elaborate justification, a preamble the size of half the article. Not e.g. the freedom of speech stated in the first article.
What is this "well-regulated militia..." thing, if it isn't intended as a restriction/qualification? The writers of the Constitution are otherwise so exquisitely economical with words. If the 2nd Amendment is intended to just give individuals the right to bear arms whenever and wherever they please -- why not just say so? Just wondering, I am no law man.
And why is it, that in quotes of the 2nd Amendment by NRA folks, this preamble commonly is forgotten? What do their lawyers know that I don't?
I don't mind people keeping Kalashnikovs for hunting rifles, or hand guns for target practice. It's OK with me, Eric, you're safely on the other side of the ocean;-) But think about it!
Back to topic, your newest piece was good for a smile. But I didn't like the name. I think the "Hallowe'en theme" has been milked enough by now.
"Viable" means: making a living. Like in staying alive and fed. Bill Gates is not typical of a successful business. Creating employment for lots of competent, hard working people is success, in my book, not exploiting a fulcrum of discretionary control to amass billions.
As Bob Young of Red Hat puts it: He doesn't want to conquer the Microsoft OS market, but cut it down to size -- by destroying the scope for monopolistic exploitation and creating service opportunities instead.
And by the way: if you don't see a way to make money out of open source, too bad for you. Others do!
1. GPS (Global Positioning System) gives you your position to within \pm 100 m.
2. A local correction system broadcasting via the FM radio band (modulated on an existing carrier) transmits corrections which are regionally valid. As a result, you get positioning accuracy to \pm 1...2 m. This is called D-GPS (Differential GPS).
3. You have a computer with CD-ROM and display screen. The CD-ROM contains a digital map (hopefully in the same coordinate frame as the GPS system, WGS-84 -- that's where we geodesists come in). The computer places you into the map and displays your surroundings.
4. If the CD-ROM is old (and they age quickly due to building etc.!) you won't get your surroundings displayed correctly.
5. The system does not know about other cars. That's YOUR problem!
In other words, RTFM. Or get wet!
Martin (a geodesist = someone who knows about knowing where you are:-)
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> one notable exponent of this view lived 2000 years ago.
Someone needs glasses, sure...
> Whenever I receive a Word document I immediately
.exe files (for the viruses, and being otherwise useless) and .doc files. One could even send automatically a nice error message
;-)
> sent it right back to them and ask that they
> send it in a standard format
Way to go! Isn't it possible to do this with procmail? Like, rejecting
"Error: unsupported attachment format".
After all, it IS an error to mail these things around
"pretty well"? It's darn great!
Didn't your mother teach you that?
:)
They're gonna be sorry still, mark my words. (I wonder if it takes a colour copier to bluescreen?
As Count Axel Oxenstierna wrote already in the 17th century in a letter, "You do not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is ruled". Little has changed.
Yeah... we can say now "Unix -- a Linux-like OS family".
And about "World domination", always found that kind of... well, why not "World liberation?" A "monopoly" of freedom is qualitatively different from any other monopoly. A commonwealth is not an empire.
"First they ignore you...
...then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you... ----- HERE
...and then you win.
We're just doing fine -- look at the slope of the curve, not its level.
...source lines? Binary bytes? Directory entries?
I would rather guess that what is meant is 10% of the code's monetary value. That's what usually applies when stating any product's ``home-grown-ness''. But I may be wrong; read the treaty/regulation text.
If it is 10% of money value, it's simple: The code itself if worth 0,00 Sch. on the free market. It's the packaging that adds monetary value. So use a non-US distribution, like SuSE or PHT.
Anyway, best is probably to teach the Iranians to burn their own distro's. It's about time they learned it, and might even be the start of a good business!
...which actually works quite nicely as a firearm filter.
Borders have their uses. But true, all too often they get in the way. Good thing we have the Internet!
...I am dependent upon AltaVista!
Of all the hundreds of comments, just *three* even play with the idea that there may be a cause-and-effect relationship between lax gun laws and kid serial killers.
Puke.
Wait until you see our LICC -- Linux Internet Coffee Cooker(tm)!
;-)
Sort of enjoy this. But good it's over tomorrow
...here in Linux's Own Country it's just as bad. Wherever you go, windows flying in your face.
One colleague, a highly competent professional scientist, even managed to give me an MS Word file where the section headers had been written using "finger paint" -- write section number, press space bar, type header text, paint header with mouse and make it bold. All in "normal" style, of course.
Yuck.
...who needs Gates?
T-shirt text, came immediately to my mind upon seeing this article. Surely I'm not the only one.
two products I read about for Unix/emacs.
OK so they are not Web browsers... but AsTeR
reads LaTeX in a structured way. The idea is not
new... of course the implementation may well be.
Why would you want to go to the server room to
do things with your server? You can have your own
GUI on your own PC with Netscape... to administrate Samba remotely, a possibility now standard included.
So, no need to run X on the server. Just Apache,
which one probably would do anyway. Or an X-server on your PC. There's many ways to do a thing. But bolting a GUI to a server OS is *really* crazy.
!
here.
Actually it's not so bad. The drag comes from the same material as the fuel you're collecting -- probably by a magnetic field system of kinds. It would have to be ionized (UV source?) to be effectively collected.
:-)
:-)
The energy that hydrogen fuel can release is of order 0.1% of rest mass. This means
v^2 / 2c^2 = 0.001 ==> v = 0.04 c or 4% of the speed of light. Alpha Centauri in 100 years. No relativistic time dilatation yet to speak of... probably a job for robots. Which will be culturally indistinguishable from biological humans by the time this becomes actual
(A little practical problem is that ordinary hydrogen fusion is a weak interaction, not like the deuterium fusion in our test installations here on Earth. Hopefully they'll find some suitable catalytic process
Napoleon hated them. Caesar did. Hitler did (IIRC). This was the only thing basically and fundamentally wrong with this editorial!
Cats are too independent. No herding them.
Linux people love cats. It's something you can bet on. I've seen it over and over again!
Someday someone should set up a web page about Linux and cats, Linux lovers and cat lovers. With pictures.
Or a strong coffee :-)
No, not from Dune ;-)
The UNAVCO (University Navstar Consortium) has prepared a programme package TEQC (Translation, Editing, Quality Control) for reading and formatting to RINEX (the open standard for geodetic GPS data) from a considerable number of both geodetic and simpler GPS receivers. It can read both stored data files and input from the serial port.
This software is (currently) binary only, but free and Linux is one of the primary platforms supported.
Here.
Hmmm. Granted that it's not about state rights, then what is it about? It's there for a reason. No other statement of individuals' rights contains such an elaborate justification, a preamble the size of half the article. Not e.g. the freedom of speech stated in the first article.
;-) But think about it!
What is this "well-regulated militia..." thing, if it isn't intended as a restriction/qualification? The writers of the Constitution are otherwise so exquisitely economical with words. If the 2nd Amendment is intended to just give individuals the right to bear arms whenever and wherever they please -- why not just say so? Just wondering, I am no law man.
And why is it, that in quotes of the 2nd Amendment by NRA folks, this preamble commonly is forgotten? What do their lawyers know that I don't?
I don't mind people keeping Kalashnikovs for hunting rifles, or hand guns for target practice. It's OK with me, Eric, you're safely on the other side of the ocean
Back to topic, your newest piece was good for a smile. But I didn't like the name. I think the "Hallowe'en theme" has been milked enough by now.
And I still like fetchmail more.
"Viable" means: making a living. Like in staying alive and fed. Bill Gates is not typical of a successful business. Creating employment for lots of competent, hard working people is success, in my book, not exploiting a fulcrum of discretionary control to amass billions.
As Bob Young of Red Hat puts it: He doesn't want to conquer the Microsoft OS market, but cut it down to size -- by destroying the scope for monopolistic exploitation and creating service opportunities instead.
And by the way: if you don't see a way to make money out of open source, too bad for you. Others do!
The system works as follows:
:-)
1. GPS (Global Positioning System) gives you your position to within \pm 100 m.
2. A local correction system broadcasting via the FM radio band (modulated on an existing carrier) transmits corrections which are regionally valid. As a result, you get positioning accuracy to \pm 1...2 m. This is called D-GPS (Differential GPS).
3. You have a computer with CD-ROM and display screen. The CD-ROM contains a digital map (hopefully in the same coordinate frame as the GPS system, WGS-84 -- that's where we geodesists come in). The computer places you into the map and displays your surroundings.
4. If the CD-ROM is old (and they age quickly due to building etc.!) you won't get your surroundings displayed correctly.
5. The system does not know about other cars. That's YOUR problem!
In other words, RTFM. Or get wet!
Martin (a geodesist = someone who knows about knowing where you are