I have pretty much the same problem, and it looks from the posts so far that there isn't any existing solution to do queueing/shaping on XP... Does anyone know where to look for documentation for how you would write a program to do this? What API do windows software firewalls use to intercept packets? I've looked around MSDN a bit, but didn't find anything, is there an unofficial guide somewhere?
Police said they used the same computer from which the Web sites were uploaded to remove the offensive material and replace it with the crest of the special police unit involved.
They did not say whether they informed the Internet providers that hosted the sites. Nor did they name the providers.
Does anybody know of other free (either or both) X servers are for Windows?
The only other one i've been able to find is the GPLed WeirdX, which has a usable but slightly buggy rootless mode (where you use Windows as your window manager). I've been pretty happy using it to run my linux boxes (mostly xterm), and I could run some things (like xscreensaver) locally using U/WIN...
Oh, come on, if you're going to criticize Bush for cowardice, you should bring up how he went into hiding and had his staff claim Air Force One was being targeted by terrorists during Sept. 11 (and for some time afterward)
If you are foreigner, then treaty applies. If you are a foreigner and part of regular army, treaty plus international law applies.
The Constitution applies to people within the United States, including non-citizens, illegal aliens, and enemy soldiers (but military law applies to that last group too).
You're not supposed to use tinfoil in a microwave--put your balls in a glass dish instead, and cover them with a cloth if you don't want them to dry out too much.
A few broken programs aside,.mp3 being bound to media player only means media player runs when you "run" a.mp3 (like double clicking on it in explorer). It wouldn't keep you from playing mp3s in winamp, particularly if you're like me and do add->add dir in the playlist to load music.
The band plan in Minnesota has absolutely zero impact on me here in California. Heck, where I am neither does the bandplan in Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona or Mexico. Why is it that a bunch of beaurocrats in Washington DC should have complete and total say over issues involving strictly local transmission and reception of radio signals?
It would be rather complicated to manufacture TVs, radios, etc. if the RF bandwidth weren't standardized... 50 different tv tuners in one would be complicated today, and probably impractical around the time they added the UHF system...
A laser printer I bought several (8, I'd guess) years ago came with a toner cartridge that would only print 1/3 as many pages as a new replacement cartridge, this was explained deep in the manual somewhere...
Think about it, you pay for the movie BEFORE you are satisfied with it, and you really don't have a whole lot of choice if the movie sucks. (Yeah, you could get your money back, but how often does that happen?) [...] Don't like a movie you bought on DVD or saw in the theater? Tough shit. You already had your service provided.
I have gotten free passes for seeing a movie with sound problems that didn't even bother me--because other people complained, and they gave them to everyone as we left after the show. I have gotten free soda and popcorn from the concession because the film broke and the audience had to wait an hour to see the rest of the film. (and anyone who chose to leave got their money back)
I have never, ever gotten the "tough shit" reaction when there was something wrong at a theater.
I have not traveled by air since returning from Europe on September 19 (delayed from Sept. 12).
In the past, I would have flown between the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles area (a 1-hour flight, using any of the airports on either end), but now it's actually likely to be faster to drive (around six hours each way), after including all the "waiting in line time," the increased flight delays, and of course the time to get into and out of the airports (park here, rent a car there).
I've flown a couple of times since Sept. 11, and the only noticible slowdown i've experienced is the removal of curbside check-in. The LAX security checkpoint is faster now than before, more security goons + more metal detectors = better throughput.
Oh, and btw, when the check-in person asks you if you packed your own luggage and watched it at all times, "I didn't bring any luggage" is not the answer they want to hear... I'd try "mu" next time, but I think they'd be even less amused.
Nitrogen in the air isn't consumed by humans, so the same volume of nitrogen brought from home could be used forever (as long as it doesn't leak, of course) with the oxygen being replinished by the water and the co2 being filtered out. I don't know if it would work in practice, tho.
And yeah, Mars' atmosphere is a tiny fraction of the pressure of Earth's, so you'd have to have space suits or a pressurized building or something to live.
If its still hard to see this, you're not alone. It isn't obvious to most people (even programmers) that software fullfills the same role for electronic computing machines as drawings do for other machines.
That's not true at all. Computers are patentable machines just like anything else, but software does not describe the operation of a computer, it is data which is input into the computer.
Patenting software is equivalent to patenting the words cut into a printing press roll.
Patent-wise, the situation has been quite unfair to programmers until recently [...]
It's not unfair to programmers because programmers aren't inventors, and they know it. Programmers create programs by taking a specification and translating it into machine-readable code. It's not a mechanical process, but there are well-known techniques and it's usually pretty straightforward. There is no invention going on here--any competent programmer could write any program given sufficient time.
otherwise patents would become enormous collections of huge diagrams showing the placement of charges in capacitors, or magnetic domains on a disk, or pits burned in a CD read by laser.
CD pit patterns aren't patentable, they aren't an invention, they're data and they have copyrights.
Do you believe that books should be patentable? How about literary "inventions"? There has been substantial change in the state of the art in writing over the years, isn't the denial of patents unfair to writers?
Well I say we need more software patents to be held by free software friendly parties as well as a legal mechanism to pool those patents and use them as bargaining chips.
Free software groups can fight that war if they want to, but they won't win. Do you seriously think RedHat or the FSF can out-litigate Microsoft, or IBM, or Sun, or any other big patentholder?
Besides, patent cross-licencing would be next to impossible to integrate with the GPL... The patentholder would have to not just allow Redhat or whatever to use the licenced patent, but everyone, which means that trading with a free software patent company means (effectively) surrendering your patents entirely. Not likely to get many offers on those terms...
Most big companies with patent portfolios don't necessarily license them out for money, they'll trade licensing rights with some other company that holds patents they want to use.
Not much use for open source, unless this other company RedHat's swapping patents with is willing to not just license it to RedHat, but to everybody else who gets a GPL copy...
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Sorry, this isn't a solution. The only current solution is to reduce the amount of fuel you use, by taking a bus or other mass transit, for instance.
Sorry, the vast majority of people (myself included) don't care enough to make lifestyle changes.
Technical solutions are the only thing that even stand a chance. In the absence of a technical solution, the problem will continue to go unsolved.
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I have pretty much the same problem, and it looks from the posts so far that there isn't any existing solution to do queueing/shaping on XP... Does anyone know where to look for documentation for how you would write a program to do this? What API do windows software firewalls use to intercept packets? I've looked around MSDN a bit, but didn't find anything, is there an unofficial guide somewhere?
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This does make it a federal offense, while "ordinary" murder is a violation of state law in most cases, so the law's not a total noop.
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Does anybody know of other free (either or both) X servers are for Windows?
The only other one i've been able to find is the GPLed WeirdX, which has a usable but slightly buggy rootless mode (where you use Windows as your window manager). I've been pretty happy using it to run my linux boxes (mostly xterm), and I could run some things (like xscreensaver) locally using U/WIN...
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I was off by one, it's 30.12120...
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3.14159265358979323846264....
You can't even use most of those digits in base pi.
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Might as well force pi to be 3 while you're at it. Or how about 10?
It's easy to make pi==10, just use base pi numbering instead of the archaic base 3.12120...
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Oh, come on, if you're going to criticize Bush for cowardice, you should bring up how he went into hiding and had his staff claim Air Force One was being targeted by terrorists during Sept. 11 (and for some time afterward)
That Vietnam business is older than I am...
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If you are foreigner, then treaty applies. If you are a foreigner and part of regular army, treaty plus international law applies.
The Constitution applies to people within the United States, including non-citizens, illegal aliens, and enemy soldiers (but military law applies to that last group too).
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ianal, imho, ymmv, dttah.
Oh, right, like that time in 1777 when colonists sneaked onto a ship to London and killed a 5-year-old girl.
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make sure you wrap your fucking balls in tin-foil
You're not supposed to use tinfoil in a microwave--put your balls in a glass dish instead, and cover them with a cloth if you don't want them to dry out too much.
A few broken programs aside, .mp3 being bound to media player only means media player runs when you "run" a .mp3 (like double clicking on it in explorer). It wouldn't keep you from playing mp3s in winamp, particularly if you're like me and do add->add dir in the playlist to load music.
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Benjamin Coates
The band plan in Minnesota has absolutely zero impact on me here in California. Heck, where I am neither does the bandplan in Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona or Mexico. Why is it that a bunch of beaurocrats in Washington DC should have complete and total say over issues involving strictly local transmission and reception of radio signals?
It would be rather complicated to manufacture TVs, radios, etc. if the RF bandwidth weren't standardized... 50 different tv tuners in one would be complicated today, and probably impractical around the time they added the UHF system...
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Benjamin Coates
So those checks are hush money, eh?
I thought AT&T was the death star?
A laser printer I bought several (8, I'd guess) years ago came with a toner cartridge that would only print 1/3 as many pages as a new replacement cartridge, this was explained deep in the manual somewhere...
I believe it was a Canon, but i'm not sure.
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Think about it, you pay for the movie BEFORE you are satisfied with it, and you really don't have a whole lot of choice if the movie sucks. (Yeah, you could get your money back, but how often does that happen?) [...] Don't like a movie you bought on DVD or saw in the theater? Tough shit. You already had your service provided.
I have gotten free passes for seeing a movie with sound problems that didn't even bother me--because other people complained, and they gave them to everyone as we left after the show. I have gotten free soda and popcorn from the concession because the film broke and the audience had to wait an hour to see the rest of the film. (and anyone who chose to leave got their money back)
I have never, ever gotten the "tough shit" reaction when there was something wrong at a theater.
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Benjamin Coates
How does this eliminate hijackings, even if it worked 100% perfectly?
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You can't do surrepitious (sp?), iris scans, it would take all day to iris scan people at an airport. Besides, they can be tricked too easily...
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I have not traveled by air since returning from Europe on September 19 (delayed from Sept. 12).
In the past, I would have flown between the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles area (a 1-hour flight, using any of the airports on either end), but now it's actually likely to be faster to drive (around six hours each way), after including all the "waiting in line time," the increased flight delays, and of course the time to get into and out of the airports (park here, rent a car there).
I've flown a couple of times since Sept. 11, and the only noticible slowdown i've experienced is the removal of curbside check-in. The LAX security checkpoint is faster now than before, more security goons + more metal detectors = better throughput.
Oh, and btw, when the check-in person asks you if you packed your own luggage and watched it at all times, "I didn't bring any luggage" is not the answer they want to hear... I'd try "mu" next time, but I think they'd be even less amused.
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Benjamin Coates
Nitrogen in the air isn't consumed by humans, so the same volume of nitrogen brought from home could be used forever (as long as it doesn't leak, of course) with the oxygen being replinished by the water and the co2 being filtered out. I don't know if it would work in practice, tho.
And yeah, Mars' atmosphere is a tiny fraction of the pressure of Earth's, so you'd have to have space suits or a pressurized building or something to live.
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Benjamin Coates
If its still hard to see this, you're not alone. It isn't obvious to most people (even programmers) that software fullfills the same role for electronic computing machines as drawings do for other machines.
That's not true at all. Computers are patentable machines just like anything else, but software does not describe the operation of a computer, it is data which is input into the computer.
Patenting software is equivalent to patenting the words cut into a printing press roll.
Patent-wise, the situation has been quite unfair to programmers until recently [...]
It's not unfair to programmers because programmers aren't inventors, and they know it. Programmers create programs by taking a specification and translating it into machine-readable code. It's not a mechanical process, but there are well-known techniques and it's usually pretty straightforward. There is no invention going on here--any competent programmer could write any program given sufficient time.
otherwise patents would become enormous collections of huge diagrams showing the placement of charges in capacitors, or magnetic domains on a disk, or pits burned in a CD read by laser.
CD pit patterns aren't patentable, they aren't an invention, they're data and they have copyrights.
Do you believe that books should be patentable? How about literary "inventions"? There has been substantial change in the state of the art in writing over the years, isn't the denial of patents unfair to writers?
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Benjamin Coates
Well I say we need more software patents to be held by free software friendly parties as well as a legal mechanism to pool those patents and use them as bargaining chips.
Free software groups can fight that war if they want to, but they won't win. Do you seriously think RedHat or the FSF can out-litigate Microsoft, or IBM, or Sun, or any other big patentholder?
Besides, patent cross-licencing would be next to impossible to integrate with the GPL... The patentholder would have to not just allow Redhat or whatever to use the licenced patent, but everyone, which means that trading with a free software patent company means (effectively) surrendering your patents entirely. Not likely to get many offers on those terms...
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Benjamin Coates
Most big companies with patent portfolios don't necessarily license them out for money, they'll trade licensing rights with some other company that holds patents they want to use.
Not much use for open source, unless this other company RedHat's swapping patents with is willing to not just license it to RedHat, but to everybody else who gets a GPL copy...
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