1. This is not a bug in effect. If you want to see the deleted messages, you can go in the Wiew menu and uncheck "Hide deleted messages". This feature is meant to allow you to un-delete messages. If you want to permanently delete these message you can use the Expugne command from the Actions menu' (you can use the shortcut (CTRL+e)
Exactly. This is how IMAP is supposed to work. Go and use PINE again for a while to re-familiarize yourselves with this fact.
Now we just need to get Exchange to treat IMAP clients are first-class citizens instead of randomly munging the content of messages (and other objects) retrieved via this protocol
I found another one from IP Australia that's better yet! If Geetha Premaratne grants this one then we might as well all pack up and go home.
Word: WINDOWS Image: Lodgement Date: 01-APR-2005 Acceptance Due: 27-SEP-2006 First Report: 27-JUN-2005 Class/es: 6 Status: Under Examination - Extension Fees Not Required Kind: n/a Type of Mark: Word Examiner: Geetha PREMARATNE
Owner/s: Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, Washington 98052-6399
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Address for Service: Davies Collison Cave
GPO Box 3876
SYDNEY
2001,NSW
Goods & Services
Class: 6 Metal building materials; common metals and their alloys; doors; screens
Yes folks, they are trying to trademark the windows that go in the walls of your house.
Actually, you can manage MSDE just fine with Enterprise Manager, which can be installed without an SQL Server license. Just download the evaluation version of SQL Server 2000, and during the installation process choose to install "client tools only" (no server install). It's a bit of a waste of a 200MB download just to get the client tools, but it works. In fact, IIRC, it is the "blessed" method according to the MSDN website.
If you want to administer your MSDE installation remotely, you have to remember to enable network protocols when you install it, or hunt through the registry for the appropriate keys (useful links here).
Too right. You're going to have to pry my G400 from my cold, dead fingers. I was sad when I had to retire it from my main box because it wouldn't run ePSXe and Quake III decently. But then I was overjoyed when I used it to build my MythTV box. The TV-out is so sweet, especially with my home-made SCART (component) adapter. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd get MPlayer working with its built-in MGA framebuffer driver instead of the standard xv-on-X-on-framebuffer setup and revel in the glory of tripple-buffering and hardware vsync.
Magic wand with a threshold that you can adjust AFTER you have clicked.
Well, the GIMP can do this at least. If you click in the image and hold the mouse button down, then dragging towards the top left will reduce the tollerance, and dragging towards the bottom right increase it, with the marching-ants updating in real time. I must say I'm a bit stunned if PhotoShop really doesn't have this feature. It's very useful.
1)All copyrights for any source code, computer programs, scripts, etc written by you stay with you. 2)Company has a license in perpetuity to use, alter, and distribute them internally.
I would add that the company has a non exclusive license. Just to covery all the bases.
You might also win points with your boss if you include a clause saying that you won't sell the same code or solution to a direct competitor for X months after termination of the contract. It's not as restrictive as a standard non-compete agreement, but it will give your current employer a lot of peace of mind (which will make them like you more).
Is is just me, or is this site sorely lacking a "filter by platform" control. There's no way of telling if a game is for mobile phone, Java, Flash, Windows-only or whatever before you click on it.
Actually, the real danger of methanol's ability to permeate the skin is when it acts as a carrier for other highly toxic substances. You would be hard put to absorb a toxic quantity of methanol through your skin. However, if you spilled a significant quantity on your clothes then it could leach out toxic dyes and carry them through your skin causing a potentially serious poisoning.
There is an apocryphal story (which unfortunately I cannot find any hard evidence for), of a man who died after using a home-remedy ointment containing DMSO (which has similar skin-penetrating properties to methanol). The DMSO carried blue dye from his jeans across his skin and poisoned him.
I think your idea would be very hard to implement in general, and very tedious to use. If a grammar checker made me validate each sentence against what it thinks I mean then the process is going to take far too long. Some way of flagging potentially bad grammar is necessary. Perhaps a "double translation" could be employed. The checker could parse the sentence for meaning, and then attempt to express the same meaning using the same root words. If it finds this task impossible, or if the resulting sentence is significantly different from the original, then it flags the sentence. Still a difficult task, but perhaps more manageable.
Biofeedback it a fine idea though. Currently the best machine for grammar checking is the human brain. Make some software which learns. Most of my grammatical errors are not made because I don't know how to write English. Most of them are caused by typos which happen to be real words, or by rewording sentences but forgetting to fix the verb agreement or some such.
If a grammar checker popped up and said "This sentence looks a bit odd. Is it correct?" then I could probably give it a sensible answer about 95% of the time. If it learned from those answers then I'd end up with a good grammar checker that knows my writing style.
Combine this with a collaborative back-end to stop idiosyncratic incorrectness from corrupting individual versions, and you have some seriously useful software.
The other option is, well ironic. We need fuel cells to free ourselves from foreign oil. So we'll get the hydrogen from hydrocarbons. We'll call them hydrocarbons, so that Susie Homemaker won't immediately pick up on the problem that hydrocarbons are foreign oil.
And they have a Linux and a Mac client so the Missus and I can both play. Maybe I can get her back into online gaming. She was a hard-core MUDder for a few months, but the griefers drove her away.
One request that has often been asked but hardly answered is the free-game-with-subscription model.
How about the pay-game-no-subscription model? There's no way I'm going to fork out $50 for a game that requires me to pay a monthly tax to prevent it from becoming a shiny coaster.
I propose a game which comes with server software, a basic generic world, and specifications/tools for creating new mobs, zones, items, etc.* The pubisher can still set up "premium" servers, where you pay-to-play and get a great professionally-crafted experience just like WoW. However, you could also get a group of friends together, create your own world just the way you like it, and play for as long as you like without forking over ransom money to keep you character. There could even be clauses in the license that prevent you from taking any money from people -- even donations for server hosting -- just like Diku-based MUD codebases.
I have purchased exactly 1 new game in my life -- Quake III for Linux -- but if someone makes a good game with this model then I'll buy it for sure.
A better option, with less chance of getting you locked up for murder is this:
1) Install security cameras and hook them up to an image analysis system and your TV set.
2) When the software detects an intruder, turn on the TV set with an IR blaster and bring up a picture of the room and the intruder.
3) Overlay two circles with cross-hairs and flash the text "MISSILE DEFENCE SYSTEM - ACQUIRING LOCK". Move the cross-hairs around like they do in the movies.
4) Eventually bring the cross-hairs together over the intruder, make a nice loud chime sound and flash "LOCK ACQUIRED - FIRE WHEN READY" in big letters.
5) If the crims are still in the house at this point they deserve to have your stuff.
Hear, hear! If I was in the market for a CPU upgrade, I'd be looking very seriously at one of the the low-end Pentium D models.
The sorts of things that I do with my workstation (video processing and compiling software) would really benefit from going to a dual core at the cost of a little GHz. However, AMD have limited the choices and priced themselves out of this market. All of the X2 chips are a "step up" from the Athlon64 range, with no direct choice of "would I rather have a faster clock or two cores?". A serious gamer would take the faster clock (given the current crop of games), but I would take the dual core.
Now I'm assuming, based on the benchmarks and recommendations that I've read, tthat he core market for Athlon64 is gamers, so perhaps this explains the otherwise baffling hole in AMD's processor range.
So, does anyone know a good way for me to identify binaries on my system which are statically linked to zlib?
Will this work? Is "zlib" a good enough string to search for?
#!/bin/bash grep -rl zlib/{,usr/,usr/X11R6/,usr/local/}{s,}bin 2>/dev/null | while read FILE ; do
if ! (ldd ${FILE} | grep libz >/dev/null); then
echo ${FILE}
fi done
And yeah, I know there are other locations where I have binaries (e.g. ~/bin,/opt/*). This is just a proof-of-concept.
It burns me all the time. Try maintaining websites with a Windows system, then uploading everything via FTP or rsync. You end up with random thumbs.db files all over your website. This is: a) A waste of space b) A potential security risk becuase it provides an index for directories which you may not have wanted indexed c) A PITA when you couple it with a CMS which indexes image directories to provide a nice interface for users, but ends up throwing annoying warnings about unrecognized file types.
Best admin prank I ever saw was someone who put this in the crontab of a test server which was sitting in the middle of the office: 3 20 * * * eject 19 20 * * * eject -t
The pinnacle of computing was the MicroBee. Powered by the mighty Zilog Z80 (and what a great name for a CPU that is). State-of-the-art CP/M operating system, a choice of green OR amber screen, some kind of strange, proprietary multi-wire-bus networking, WordStar (king of word processors) available as a ROM chip (beat that load time!) and best of all DESIGNED AND BUILT RIGHT HERE IN AUSTRALIA*.
:)
*Except that I think the company was in Melbourne, and we all know that Melbourne sucks.:*)
When you download something via BitTorrent, it's downloaded in random order, as pieces become available. While this works, it means you've got a huge file on your hard disk, but it's completely useless because random pieces are utter garbage bytes. For example, unlike with a straight download, you can't start watching a video file that's still being saved to disk.
I would contest this on three grounds
1) If you use an operating system and filesystem which support sparse files then the missing blocks will be zeros, not random garbage, and the file will only be as big as the data downloaded.
2) A media file or archive with random chunks missing is far from useless. So long as the file header is available (see next point), you should be able to preview a media file for content or quality; and view the listing of an indexed archive or extract some of the contained files.
3) Advanced Bittorrent clients such as Azureus can prioritise specific parts of files -- i.e. the beginnings of files where the metadata usually live.
That said, I have to agree that having "I want this bit" built in to the protocol would have to be an advantage. Imagine having this "swarmstreaming" built into an archive manager or media editor. Download the header/metadata, then grab just the archived files or sample clip that you want. Awesome!
Also, if you're serving DNS, get a good secondary DNS provider. Put them in as both your primary and secondary NS records. Then firewall port 53 and only let their hosts connect.
Give that man a New! (aussie beer joke) If you don't have one handy, give him a mod point. This really is an excellent thing to do.
<suit type="flameproof">If you don't mind being a bit of a bad nettizen, you can do something similar with your mail too. Firewall your priority 10 MX server and only allow connections from you backup mail servers (i.e. your ISP). I know this is not very friendly, but if you are worried about the security of your MTA (and can't fix it because of company policy or whatever) it will help.</suit>
the police (read: taxpayers) also have to pay the BBC's mega legal fees
Yes the police are funded by the taxpayer, but Joe Random Public also pays for the BBC (through taxes and TV licenses). That's right, two-fifths of British free-to-air television is public television.
I think the BBC will do a better job of making money off the trademark than the police ever would, thus more money goes back into a public service. I put this one down as a good outcome for the British public.
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Exactly. This is how IMAP is supposed to work. Go and use PINE again for a while to re-familiarize yourselves with this fact.
Now we just need to get Exchange to treat IMAP clients are first-class citizens instead of randomly munging the content of messages (and other objects) retrieved via this protocol
It doesn't count unless one of those languages is the original Quenya.
I found another one from IP Australia that's better yet!
If Geetha Premaratne grants this one then we might as well all pack up and go home.
Word: WINDOWS
Image:
Lodgement Date: 01-APR-2005
Acceptance Due: 27-SEP-2006
First Report: 27-JUN-2005
Class/es: 6
Status: Under Examination - Extension Fees Not Required
Kind: n/a
Type of Mark: Word
Examiner: Geetha PREMARATNE
Owner/s: Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, Washington 98052-6399
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Address for Service: Davies Collison Cave
GPO Box 3876
SYDNEY
2001,NSW
Goods & Services
Class: 6 Metal building materials; common metals and their alloys; doors; screens
Yes folks, they are trying to trademark the windows that go in the walls of your house.
Actually, you can manage MSDE just fine with Enterprise Manager, which can be installed without an SQL Server license. Just download the evaluation version of SQL Server 2000, and during the installation process choose to install "client tools only" (no server install). It's a bit of a waste of a 200MB download just to get the client tools, but it works. In fact, IIRC, it is the "blessed" method according to the MSDN website.
If you want to administer your MSDE installation remotely, you have to remember to enable network protocols when you install it, or hunt through the registry for the appropriate keys (useful links here).
Too right. You're going to have to pry my G400 from my cold, dead fingers. I was sad when I had to retire it from my main box because it wouldn't run ePSXe and Quake III decently. But then I was overjoyed when I used it to build my MythTV box. The TV-out is so sweet, especially with my home-made SCART (component) adapter. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd get MPlayer working with its built-in MGA framebuffer driver instead of the standard xv-on-X-on-framebuffer setup and revel in the glory of tripple-buffering and hardware vsync.
Magic wand with a threshold that you can adjust AFTER you have clicked.
Well, the GIMP can do this at least. If you click in the image and hold the mouse button down, then dragging towards the top left will reduce the tollerance, and dragging towards the bottom right increase it, with the marching-ants updating in real time. I must say I'm a bit stunned if PhotoShop really doesn't have this feature. It's very useful.
...with the Electric Universe theory?
I would add that the company has a non exclusive license. Just to covery all the bases.
You might also win points with your boss if you include a clause saying that you won't sell the same code or solution to a direct competitor for X months after termination of the contract. It's not as restrictive as a standard non-compete agreement, but it will give your current employer a lot of peace of mind (which will make them like you more).
Is is just me, or is this site sorely lacking a "filter by platform" control. There's no way of telling if a game is for mobile phone, Java, Flash, Windows-only or whatever before you click on it.
That detracts a lot from its usefulness for me.
Actually, the real danger of methanol's ability to permeate the skin is when it acts as a carrier for other highly toxic substances. You would be hard put to absorb a toxic quantity of methanol through your skin. However, if you spilled a significant quantity on your clothes then it could leach out toxic dyes and carry them through your skin causing a potentially serious poisoning.
There is an apocryphal story (which unfortunately I cannot find any hard evidence for), of a man who died after using a home-remedy ointment containing DMSO (which has similar skin-penetrating properties to methanol). The DMSO carried blue dye from his jeans across his skin and poisoned him.
I think your idea would be very hard to implement in general, and very tedious to use. If a grammar checker made me validate each sentence against what it thinks I mean then the process is going to take far too long. Some way of flagging potentially bad grammar is necessary. Perhaps a "double translation" could be employed. The checker could parse the sentence for meaning, and then attempt to express the same meaning using the same root words. If it finds this task impossible, or if the resulting sentence is significantly different from the original, then it flags the sentence. Still a difficult task, but perhaps more manageable.
Biofeedback it a fine idea though. Currently the best machine for grammar checking is the human brain. Make some software which learns. Most of my grammatical errors are not made because I don't know how to write English. Most of them are caused by typos which happen to be real words, or by rewording sentences but forgetting to fix the verb agreement or some such.
If a grammar checker popped up and said "This sentence looks a bit odd. Is it correct?" then I could probably give it a sensible answer about 95% of the time. If it learned from those answers then I'd end up with a good grammar checker that knows my writing style.
Combine this with a collaborative back-end to stop idiosyncratic incorrectness from corrupting individual versions, and you have some seriously useful software.
What on Earth do you want an e-meter on there for?
Yeah! It's not as if hydrocarbons grow on trees.
Oh, wait...
And they have a Linux and a Mac client so the Missus and I can both play. Maybe I can get her back into online gaming. She was a hard-core MUDder for a few months, but the griefers drove her away.
Thanks for the tip.
How about the pay-game-no-subscription model? There's no way I'm going to fork out $50 for a game that requires me to pay a monthly tax to prevent it from becoming a shiny coaster.
I propose a game which comes with server software, a basic generic world, and specifications/tools for creating new mobs, zones, items, etc.* The pubisher can still set up "premium" servers, where you pay-to-play and get a great professionally-crafted experience just like WoW. However, you could also get a group of friends together, create your own world just the way you like it, and play for as long as you like without forking over ransom money to keep you character. There could even be clauses in the license that prevent you from taking any money from people -- even donations for server hosting -- just like Diku-based MUD codebases.
I have purchased exactly 1 new game in my life -- Quake III for Linux -- but if someone makes a good game with this model then I'll buy it for sure.
* Yes, I'm a MUD denizen.
A better option, with less chance of getting you locked up for murder is this:
1) Install security cameras and hook them up to an image analysis system and your TV set.
2) When the software detects an intruder, turn on the TV set with an IR blaster and bring up a picture of the room and the intruder.
3) Overlay two circles with cross-hairs and flash the text "MISSILE DEFENCE SYSTEM - ACQUIRING LOCK". Move the cross-hairs around like they do in the movies.
4) Eventually bring the cross-hairs together over the intruder, make a nice loud chime sound and flash "LOCK ACQUIRED - FIRE WHEN READY" in big letters.
5) If the crims are still in the house at this point they deserve to have your stuff.
Hear, hear! If I was in the market for a CPU upgrade, I'd be looking very seriously at one of the the low-end Pentium D models.
The sorts of things that I do with my workstation (video processing and compiling software) would really benefit from going to a dual core at the cost of a little GHz. However, AMD have limited the choices and priced themselves out of this market. All of the X2 chips are a "step up" from the Athlon64 range, with no direct choice of "would I rather have a faster clock or two cores?". A serious gamer would take the faster clock (given the current crop of games), but I would take the dual core.
Now I'm assuming, based on the benchmarks and recommendations that I've read, tthat he core market for Athlon64 is gamers, so perhaps this explains the otherwise baffling hole in AMD's processor range.
So, does anyone know a good way for me to identify binaries on my system which are statically linked to zlib?
/{,usr/,usr/X11R6/,usr/local/}{s,}bin 2>/dev/null | while read FILE ; do
/opt/*). This is just a proof-of-concept.
Will this work? Is "zlib" a good enough string to search for?
#!/bin/bash
grep -rl zlib
if ! (ldd ${FILE} | grep libz >/dev/null); then
echo ${FILE}
fi
done
And yeah, I know there are other locations where I have binaries (e.g. ~/bin,
Don't be rediculous!
It burns me all the time. Try maintaining websites with a Windows system, then uploading everything via FTP or rsync. You end up with random thumbs.db files all over your website. This is:
a) A waste of space
b) A potential security risk becuase it provides an index for directories which you may not have wanted indexed
c) A PITA when you couple it with a CMS which indexes image directories to provide a nice interface for users, but ends up throwing annoying warnings about unrecognized file types.
Best admin prank I ever saw was someone who put this in the crontab of a test server which was sitting in the middle of the office:
;-)
3 20 * * * eject
19 20 * * * eject -t
Freaked the hell out of people working late
Commodore? COMMODORE?
Damn you American technologial imperialists!
The pinnacle of computing was the MicroBee. Powered by the mighty Zilog Z80 (and what a great name for a CPU that is). State-of-the-art CP/M operating system, a choice of green OR amber screen, some kind of strange, proprietary multi-wire-bus networking, WordStar (king of word processors) available as a ROM chip (beat that load time!) and best of all DESIGNED AND BUILT RIGHT HERE IN AUSTRALIA *.
:)
*Except that I think the company was in Melbourne, and we all know that Melbourne sucks. :*)
I would contest this on three grounds
1) If you use an operating system and filesystem which support sparse files then the missing blocks will be zeros, not random garbage, and the file will only be as big as the data downloaded.
2) A media file or archive with random chunks missing is far from useless. So long as the file header is available (see next point), you should be able to preview a media file for content or quality; and view the listing of an indexed archive or extract some of the contained files.
3) Advanced Bittorrent clients such as Azureus can prioritise specific parts of files -- i.e. the beginnings of files where the metadata usually live.
That said, I have to agree that having "I want this bit" built in to the protocol would have to be an advantage. Imagine having this "swarmstreaming" built into an archive manager or media editor. Download the header/metadata, then grab just the archived files or sample clip that you want. Awesome!
Give that man a New! (aussie beer joke) If you don't have one handy, give him a mod point. This really is an excellent thing to do.
<suit type="flameproof">If you don't mind being a bit of a bad nettizen, you can do something similar with your mail too. Firewall your priority 10 MX server and only allow connections from you backup mail servers (i.e. your ISP). I know this is not very friendly, but if you are worried about the security of your MTA (and can't fix it because of company policy or whatever) it will help.</suit>Yes the police are funded by the taxpayer, but Joe Random Public also pays for the BBC (through taxes and TV licenses). That's right, two-fifths of British free-to-air television is public television.
I think the BBC will do a better job of making money off the trademark than the police ever would, thus more money goes back into a public service. I put this one down as a good outcome for the British public.