in most of Europe, manual gear shift is the standard
This is one thing I miss from Germany... you could get just about *any* car of any make with a real... uh, I mean... MANUAL... transmission. Compare and contrast to the US, where I may have to buy a sports car or a truck to get a decent vehicle with standard in it.
I remember the old 68000 chips that were used too.
All ][ series (and the apple I) used the 6502 or variant. THe IIgs used a 65816, which was instruction-compatible with your 8-bit 65{,C}02 found in earlier ][ models. The Apple/// used a 6502 as well.
it envolved upgrading the 68000 and a few other chips.
The enhancer kit is composed of the 65C02, new CD and EF ROMs, and a new chargen ROM (to support uppercase inverse with mousetext, right...)... I also have an unenhanced ][e, and can't find a proper enhancer kit these days (I'm just out a couple of ROMs... but that CD and EF ROM are pretty important. But hey, with the chargen and 65C02 from a//c, I have "just enough enhancement" to run ProDOS 2.0!:o)
M$ are affraid a good OSS video viewer will emerge on Linux. Thus they announce an upcoming version of the MediaPlayer so no one will bother to write/perfect an OSS version.
I hardly think that the Open Source community is very vulnerable to this vaporware trick. There'll most likely be a free player for ages to come (ie, the xanim guy won't fold up his tents and go home just because MS is releasing something that plays the same media types).
Too bad Sorensen-compressed.mov files won't be supported. ..
Sometimes you just have to suck it up and pay for a product.
I only pay for products that meet these criteria:
works reasonably well
reasonable cost
exists (duh?)
works in the OS of my choice
Now, this excludes Windows, which is obviously required to use QT4. I could buy a Mac and end that controversy, but that's not a reasonable cost at this time.
I'm not demanding Apple release this as Open Source. It'd be real nice if they'd just port the player and a plugin (for all those damn "embedded QT" web pages) to Linux/SunOS/(your favourite Unix here). They don't have to open anything; just port the stuff over. If they charge fees for it, and I can verify that it works, here's my money... I did that with VMware and Xing MP3 encoder, and I'm prepared to pay for the Linux version of Opera (bought the win* version, tho I don't use win* much) when it comes out.
we serve only to perpetuate everyone's hatred / distrust / dislike / whatever of them
For the record, I hated, not trusted, and associated all sorts of creative profanity with MS years before discovering Linux. One day in July 1995, I became fed up (and I was bored), so I downloaded and transferred to 80 floppies a copy of Slackware 2.3... a couple months later, it was over for The Empire.
Also, I keep hearing how there're security holes in Linux. I don't think it's Linux itself that has the security holes. It's the apps that are available for or come with most distributions that contain security holes. Now that (for example) MSIE is "part of the OS" in win*, security flaws regarding that piece can rightfully be blamed on windows itself. %gt;:o)
I have seen a few security/DOS bugs that were the fault of the Linux kernel itself, but I can't even fill up a whole hand counting them. They've also been fixed within hours of being published.
After all these years, I should be practically numb to this all, however. ..
It's not enough that I feel rather under-appreciated at work (amongst other things), now I get the impression that I'm doing nothing with my life... hrrm... Congratulations are in order for everyone who's gotten the courage to marry. I know I'll *never* marry. I used to want to make something work, but I no longer think it's worth it to pursue even a relationship, much less marriage. I'd rather acknowledge that something is impossible rather than make an idiot out of myself trying to convince myself otherwise.
Hats off to those who at least try to make things work... I know I'd have no clue or patience for it.
(Oops... this was in reference to those who actually make this community thrive. My existence in that respect is debatable.)
so the software companies should no longer be able to get away with selling you things that are unfit for their proposed use, or charging you to fix problems that they know about when they ship.
HELL YES. I JUST got cable access thru Time-Warner Cable a month ago. I can only pray this doesn't screw it up. If it does, I'll have to battle the RBOC for DSL access *angst*
I truly HOPE AOL isn't gonna meddle with the DOCSIS setup I have... I've truly enjoyed it for the last month.
Any other Roadrunner users out there who may have more insight?
If you want to regulate speed, there're already programs that make this easy... simply increase the fines, increase points taken from licenses, increase insurance premiums, etc...
I thought in that part of the world, they already had camera-based speed monitoring, anyway. They should just stick with that, IMHO... because if this satellite thing happens here, there's NO WAY I'll buy a new car.:o)
No write permission to that directory. He had no clue what dr-xr-xr-x meant in ls(1) output.
Oopsie... more likely had the auomountd going and couldn't write to/home that way. I'd look in sun-managers queue myself, but it's backed up like 5000 messages:o)
Hrrmm... perhaps I should post my "hme driver keeps allocating static kmem until minfree is exceeded" problem. It's been open with Sun Service for like 3 weeks.
It's generally required to alter a default config, tho... and I would expect it, actually. Sure, OpenBSD is secure out of the box, but it may not fit user X as shipped... but it's generally accepted that "OpenBSD is more secure than Linux."
"Secure" is a rather subjective term amongst all OSs anyway... depends on who set it up, what other stuff they installed, etc... etc...
I have 3 trackman marble devices (2 with the wheel), and absolutely love them. The First Mouse+ I have pales in comparison (because half my fingers are off-device... same with any other mouse.)
So, I guess I second(? third? forty-third?) others' recommendations here.:o)
if the whitehouse folks are (or were) using something blatantly insecure in the first place, like FrontPage extensions... From what I've read about others' experiences with this, getting cracked as a result is not only trivial, but arguably deserved imho:o)
Also, if this is indeed the case, it doesn't take a web page defacement to gather that they're stupid anyway.
Truly amazing. However, I must learn C++ to do this. This won't happen before I learn Perl (and probably a bit more C)... Perl's already trying to teach me to be somewhat object-oriented... we'll see how this goes for someone staunchly procedure-oriented.
I do have to comment, though, that this example goes counter to the paradigm that using C++ to program makes for bloat.
My experience with gnome/E was so bad with the version that shipped with RH6.0 that, even though I loved the way it looked, I probably won't try it again for quite a while.
This brokenness of GNOME in RHS 6.0 is the reason I went to Mandrake. Not only did their GNOME implementation actually work for me, I got to try KDE as well. I'm using KDE on a system here at work, and it works ok... I've really got to get afterstep 1.7 whipped into shape (the WM I use at home), tho, since it does a lot of weird things that 1.0 never did.
*sigh* I've had little time to do anything with as, tho
And of course YOU are the authority on what is frivolous.
Shoot me. Shoot me now. That was my opinion, and I assumed everyone here knew that. I should've known better. Also note the "otherwise useful" part... a given piece becomes frivolous when it's used just "because it can be used." It's not frivolous in its own right; just when folks abuse it. Hell no, I'm no authority on anything... except I do have control over what I download.
Why this country would be in an artistic golden age if they only painted art I liked, right?
If they only did stuff I liked... uh... it'd be rather boring, to say the safest.
I defy you to even tell me what ActiveX is, BTW, and the similarities to plugins.
I'm going to tell you what ActiveX *isn't*, because I don't use it, let alone IE.
It isn't something that runs in any other browser except IE. It isn't something that's cross-platform. From what I've seen in the security department, it isn't secure, either.
There. With the exception of that 3rd statement, those're about all the true facts I know about it. (and since I never use IE or ActiveX, I'm not qualified in the least to speculate on controls' similarities to plugins)
Mozilla won't make it up the steps if it doesn't work with Shockwave. end of story.
(1) You call perl progress? Even basic has a more readable syntax.
So what? In my experience, perl does a much better job than BASIC:o)
(2)I don't see how lynx helps you find something that you forgot the URL of...
Sorry... I meant "when I'm too lazy to use the command-line ftp to get files." Until a decent ftp client comes along that'll let me tag files and which works. . . (yes, there's gftp, IglooFTP and mc... but each has various bugs relating to listing/getting files, may be fixed now... I'll have to try again, etc...)
(3) Try running your browser locally...
That's fine (and usually what I do), but when the route from my house to something I need doesn't work, but it works from Boston, it'll do.
I noticed surfing the web is not in your list.
... simply because web "surfing" isn't the bulk of what I do... and you're right; I don't do it with lynx when netscape is right there. (I arguably "retard progress" by disabling things like java*, cookies, using junkbuster, turning images off, etc... but that's me and my "phat" 28.8k of bandwidth talking:o)
definitely not something that can be qualified as progress.
lynx doesn't really have to progress, in the usual sense of the word, in order to remain functional. Table support could use some improvement, tho.
Now would the biased person who moderated me down please restore my karma,
eh... I don't see why you would've been moderated down... you don't think that lynx is "progress," that's all... no biggie. There're lots of others who don't use progress to gague functionality, tho.
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There is the Xing MP3 encoder for Linux that should work with RHS 6.1. For the $20 I spent on it, it's well worth it (and very FAST!)
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This is one thing I miss from Germany... you could get just about *any* car of any make with a real... uh, I mean... MANUAL... transmission. Compare and contrast to the US, where I may have to buy a sports car or a truck to get a decent vehicle with standard in it.
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All ][ series (and the apple I) used the 6502 or variant. THe IIgs used a 65816, which was instruction-compatible with your 8-bit 65{,C}02 found in earlier ][ models. The Apple /// used a 6502 as well.
it envolved upgrading the 68000 and a few other chips.
The enhancer kit is composed of the 65C02, new CD and EF ROMs, and a new chargen ROM (to support uppercase inverse with mousetext, right...) ... I also have an unenhanced ][e, and can't find a proper enhancer kit these days (I'm just out a couple of ROMs... but that CD and EF ROM are pretty important. But hey, with the chargen and 65C02 from a //c, I have "just enough enhancement" to run ProDOS 2.0! :o)
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Not really. I believe Open Source is really synonymous with anti-stupidity.
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Last time I checked, I had to purchase my privilege to take these bastards to court. Unfortunately, my cash flow is less than the fee required.
Oh well... the upshot of not having the cash to do anything is conveniently "not being able" to exercise my privilege to buy their equipment.
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So, they're paying a lot of money to crash spectacularly? (I can safely assume they use Windows :o)
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I hardly think that the Open Source community is very vulnerable to this vaporware trick. There'll most likely be a free player for ages to come (ie, the xanim guy won't fold up his tents and go home just because MS is releasing something that plays the same media types).
Too bad Sorensen-compressed .mov files won't be supported. . .
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I only pay for products that meet these criteria:
- works reasonably well
- reasonable cost
- exists (duh?)
- works in the OS of my choice
Now, this excludes Windows, which is obviously required to use QT4. I could buy a Mac and end that controversy, but that's not a reasonable cost at this time.I'm not demanding Apple release this as Open Source. It'd be real nice if they'd just port the player and a plugin (for all those damn "embedded QT" web pages) to Linux/SunOS/(your favourite Unix here). They don't have to open anything; just port the stuff over. If they charge fees for it, and I can verify that it works, here's my money... I did that with VMware and Xing MP3 encoder, and I'm prepared to pay for the Linux version of Opera (bought the win* version, tho I don't use win* much) when it comes out.
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For the record, I hated, not trusted, and associated all sorts of creative profanity with MS years before discovering Linux. One day in July 1995, I became fed up (and I was bored), so I downloaded and transferred to 80 floppies a copy of Slackware 2.3 ... a couple months later, it was over for The Empire.
Also, I keep hearing how there're security holes in Linux. I don't think it's Linux itself that has the security holes. It's the apps that are available for or come with most distributions that contain security holes. Now that (for example) MSIE is "part of the OS" in win*, security flaws regarding that piece can rightfully be blamed on windows itself. %gt;:o)
I have seen a few security/DOS bugs that were the fault of the Linux kernel itself, but I can't even fill up a whole hand counting them. They've also been fixed within hours of being published.
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It's not enough that I feel rather under-appreciated at work (amongst other things), now I get the impression that I'm doing nothing with my life... hrrm... Congratulations are in order for everyone who's gotten the courage to marry. I know I'll *never* marry. I used to want to make something work, but I no longer think it's worth it to pursue even a relationship, much less marriage. I'd rather acknowledge that something is impossible rather than make an idiot out of myself trying to convince myself otherwise.
Hats off to those who at least try to make things work... I know I'd have no clue or patience for it.
(Oops... this was in reference to those who actually make this community thrive. My existence in that respect is debatable.)
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So, everyone in the UK got Win98 for free?
(ok, it was a nice thought, anyway :o)
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Used this heavily in the win3x days when I had to be in windows.
office apps years before "Microsoft Office" came out.
I was using Appleworks in 1986...
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HELL YES. I JUST got cable access thru Time-Warner Cable a month ago. I can only pray this doesn't screw it up. If it does, I'll have to battle the RBOC for DSL access *angst*
I truly HOPE AOL isn't gonna meddle with the DOCSIS setup I have... I've truly enjoyed it for the last month.
Any other Roadrunner users out there who may have more insight?
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Also to be wondered is how QT will be "built in" and open-sourced... will sorenson codec make this transition? Perhaps... perhaps not.
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My 1996 cavalier has these lights, and they're off when the gear selector is in Park or the handbrake is engaged.
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If you want to regulate speed, there're already programs that make this easy... simply increase the fines, increase points taken from licenses, increase insurance premiums, etc...
I thought in that part of the world, they already had camera-based speed monitoring, anyway. They should just stick with that, IMHO... because if this satellite thing happens here, there's NO WAY I'll buy a new car. :o)
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Oopsie... more likely had the auomountd going and couldn't write to /home that way. I'd look in sun-managers queue myself, but it's backed up like 5000 messages :o)
Hrrmm... perhaps I should post my "hme driver keeps allocating static kmem until minfree is exceeded" problem. It's been open with Sun Service for like 3 weeks.
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It's generally required to alter a default config, tho... and I would expect it, actually. Sure, OpenBSD is secure out of the box, but it may not fit user X as shipped... but it's generally accepted that "OpenBSD is more secure than Linux."
"Secure" is a rather subjective term amongst all OSs anyway... depends on who set it up, what other stuff they installed, etc... etc...
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According to Ken himself (sorry, I've forgotten the link into dejanews), it never left USG/AT&T research... and that one started as a trojan, IIRC
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So, I guess I second(? third? forty-third?) others' recommendations here. :o)
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Also, if this is indeed the case, it doesn't take a web page defacement to gather that they're stupid anyway.
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Truly amazing. However, I must learn C++ to do this. This won't happen before I learn Perl (and probably a bit more C)... Perl's already trying to teach me to be somewhat object-oriented... we'll see how this goes for someone staunchly procedure-oriented.
I do have to comment, though, that this example goes counter to the paradigm that using C++ to program makes for bloat.
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This brokenness of GNOME in RHS 6.0 is the reason I went to Mandrake. Not only did their GNOME implementation actually work for me, I got to try KDE as well. I'm using KDE on a system here at work, and it works ok... I've really got to get afterstep 1.7 whipped into shape (the WM I use at home), tho, since it does a lot of weird things that 1.0 never did.
*sigh* I've had little time to do anything with as, tho
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Shoot me. Shoot me now.
That was my opinion, and I assumed everyone here knew that. I should've known better. Also note the "otherwise useful" part... a given piece becomes frivolous when it's used just "because it can be used." It's not frivolous in its own right; just when folks abuse it.
Hell no, I'm no authority on anything... except I do have control over what I download.
Why this country would be in an artistic golden age if they only painted art I liked, right?
If they only did stuff I liked... uh... it'd be rather boring, to say the safest.
I defy you to even tell me what ActiveX is, BTW, and the similarities to plugins.
I'm going to tell you what ActiveX *isn't*, because I don't use it, let alone IE.
It isn't something that runs in any other browser except IE. It isn't something that's cross-platform. From what I've seen in the security department, it isn't secure, either.
There. With the exception of that 3rd statement, those're about all the true facts I know about it. (and since I never use IE or ActiveX, I'm not qualified in the least to speculate on controls' similarities to plugins)
Mozilla won't make it up the steps if it doesn't work with Shockwave. end of story.
I'm certain mozilla will support plugins
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So what? In my experience, perl does a much better job than BASIC :o)
(2)I don't see how lynx helps you find something that you forgot the URL of ...
Sorry... I meant "when I'm too lazy to use the command-line ftp to get files." Until a decent ftp client comes along that'll let me tag files and which works. . . (yes, there's gftp, IglooFTP and mc... but each has various bugs relating to listing/getting files, may be fixed now... I'll have to try again, etc...)
(3) Try running your browser locally ...
That's fine (and usually what I do), but when the route from my house to something I need doesn't work, but it works from Boston, it'll do.
I noticed surfing the web is not in your list.
definitely not something that can be qualified as progress.
lynx doesn't really have to progress, in the usual sense of the word, in order to remain functional. Table support could use some improvement, tho.
Now would the biased person who moderated me down please restore my karma,
eh... I don't see why you would've been moderated down... you don't think that lynx is "progress," that's all... no biggie. There're lots of others who don't use progress to gague functionality, tho.
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