1. ~/.login 2. c:\Users and Computers\myname\Start Menu\Startup
Um...yeah. So let me get this straight. Before we're done loading all of the system daemons, we're going to start processing the individual user's startup items.
Have you ever spent 6 hours or more removing spyware from a Windows computer?
Ever done it multiple times in one week?
I describe the above as a 'repetitive stress injury on the brain'.
Sure, the time's billable, but still. I hate MS as much as the next guy, but when it comes right down to it, I recommend more useable solutions, and useability includes not being infected to the gills.
By the way, nice troll for clickthroughs. Amazon would be impressed.:P
Here's the latest info from apple regarding the G5. It mentions "two double-precision floating-point units", but I don't think that's marketing-speak for cpu cores.:\
Um...says whom? I'm not arguing, but I haven't seen the specs on these G5 chips. I would need to match up a part number to know if these are the dual core POWER chips we've heard about or not.:\
That's what I've heard as well. The thing I keep wondering is exactly how underpowered is the MIPS cpu in the HD Tivo? If it had a powerful enough CPU (highly unlikely) it could do it in software.:(
Anyhoo, pipedream anyway. FYI, I believe it is "this obsolesces the HD Tivo". Then again, my spelling is probably wrong.:P
The problem is that most cell phones aren't sold at what they're worth. They are sold at a loss, the price being subsidised by the major carriers. This is why the iPod phone between Apple and Motorola is being delayed. No one wants to subsidize it, becase the carriers are being greedy.
As I see it right now, Apple could sell a GPRS phone outright with no problems. Plug in a sim card and you're good to go. The problem is, most people aren't willing to shell out $600 for a phone. $300, maybe, but not $600.
Sprint ("The first to build our own, all digital network from the ground up.") and CDMA technology is stagnating, and to make matters worse, you can't use just any CDMA phone, you have to use one they've approved.
The main reason I'm looking to move to a GPRS carrier when my contract is up. I want a bluetooth phone that will nicely sync with iSync, and for extra credit I want either a native imap client (not a java one, that's what I use now) or native ssh. My Sony-Ericson, Sprint forsaken phone is buggy as all get out. I can't even answer a phone call while in hands-free mode. The call gets garbled.:(
I began learning ASL many years ago in church. I haven't looked online, so I can't help you there, but I can give you some basic pointers.
DO NOT learn the alphabet in order. Learn by hand shapes instead. I made this mistake. If you learn them in order, your fingerspelling will suffer horrendously, and this is a big, big deal doing tech work, as there are no signs (at least last I used it) for most technical jargon, so you'll be relying on fingerspelling often.
What I mean by this is for example the letters A, T, N, M, and S. I typed them in that order due to hand-shape. E and O have similar shapings, as do R and Q.
Another is the cardinal sin of those learning ASL: NEVER sign 'is', as in the letter I, held to your mouth and then move it away. That's sign-english, and will drive bonkers a deaf person who speak ASL.:P I should know, I had enough people teaching me that went nuts.
Now, for a little side-story:
There was a girl that I liked, A LOT, when I was in high school. She was very cute, and her mother was deaf, so she and her mother helped teach the class.
One of the exercises was to sign "Hello, my name is ___, I am happy to meet you."
The sign goes as thus:
Hello (wave hello) my (right hand placed against chest) name (letter N draped over opposite arm) (fingerspell your name here) ----- I (point to yourself) happy (open hand, pat chest) meet (more on this in a moment) you (point to the person you're speaking to)
Now, above you'll notice I didn't define "meet". Well, I was bad the previous week, and didn't attend, so I read up in a book how to do the signs, and of course I paired up with cute girl in question.
The problem with the drawing in the book is that they weren't that great. What I saw for "meet" was the sign for the letter K on both hands, and draw them together. The letter K is pointer and middle fingers pointed out, the rest of your fingers bent, and your thumb pointed forward, resting naturally between the pointer and middle fingers.
Well, the mother of this girl was standing there, and about the time I signed "meet", her eyes went wide and looked wild and almost angry.
"What??? What did I do wrong??" She and her daughter started dying laughing....
They finally explained that people usually "meet" standing up.
Those weren't letter K's, they were supposed to be representative of people...
Perhaps, but I'm also willing to bet you're not listed in any of the spyware removal apps as an offender and getting your cookies automatically removed as a result.
If you play clean, the world will let you be. Play dirty, and the world will blacklist you. Just the way it is.
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I have two things to say about this.
1. ~/.login
2. c:\Users and Computers\myname\Start Menu\Startup
Um...yeah. So let me get this straight. Before we're done loading all of the system daemons, we're going to start processing the individual user's startup items.
Right...that will speed things right up.
Have you ever spent 6 hours or more removing spyware from a Windows computer?
:P
Ever done it multiple times in one week?
I describe the above as a 'repetitive stress injury on the brain'.
Sure, the time's billable, but still. I hate MS as much as the next guy, but when it comes right down to it, I recommend more useable solutions, and useability includes not being infected to the gills.
By the way, nice troll for clickthroughs. Amazon would be impressed.
*shrugs*
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Here's the latest info from apple regarding the G5. It mentions "two double-precision floating-point units", but I don't think that's marketing-speak for cpu cores.
Um...says whom? I'm not arguing, but I haven't seen the specs on these G5 chips. I would need to match up a part number to know if these are the dual core POWER chips we've heard about or not. :\
That's what I've heard as well. The thing I keep wondering is exactly how underpowered is the MIPS cpu in the HD Tivo? If it had a powerful enough CPU (highly unlikely) it could do it in software. :(
:P
Anyhoo, pipedream anyway. FYI, I believe it is "this obsolesces the HD Tivo". Then again, my spelling is probably wrong.
The problem is that most cell phones aren't sold at what they're worth. They are sold at a loss, the price being subsidised by the major carriers. This is why the iPod phone between Apple and Motorola is being delayed. No one wants to subsidize it, becase the carriers are being greedy.
:(
As I see it right now, Apple could sell a GPRS phone outright with no problems. Plug in a sim card and you're good to go. The problem is, most people aren't willing to shell out $600 for a phone. $300, maybe, but not $600.
Sprint ("The first to build our own, all digital network from the ground up.") and CDMA technology is stagnating, and to make matters worse, you can't use just any CDMA phone, you have to use one they've approved.
The main reason I'm looking to move to a GPRS carrier when my contract is up. I want a bluetooth phone that will nicely sync with iSync, and for extra credit I want either a native imap client (not a java one, that's what I use now) or native ssh. My Sony-Ericson, Sprint forsaken phone is buggy as all get out. I can't even answer a phone call while in hands-free mode. The call gets garbled.
http://www.numbski.net/downloads/TLR20050417.mp3.t orrent
In case anyone is interested.
Yes, perhaps. But then, rm -rf'ing someone's home directory to get your point across is just a bit rude.
:P
Then again, using obfuscated perl to get your point across also gets brownie points, so I'd call it even, however a warning label would be nice.
http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/
Have you tried this by chance?
I haven't personally, but I keep hearing good things about it.
Everything feels peppier and more responsive! Doesn't take 15 minutes to copy a 20MB file anymore either.
;)
Haven't even run the update yet either.
Could you dumb it down a notch?
I began learning ASL many years ago in church. I haven't looked online, so I can't help you there, but I can give you some basic pointers.
:P I should know, I had enough people teaching me that went nuts.
DO NOT learn the alphabet in order. Learn by hand shapes instead. I made this mistake. If you learn them in order, your fingerspelling will suffer horrendously, and this is a big, big deal doing tech work, as there are no signs (at least last I used it) for most technical jargon, so you'll be relying on fingerspelling often.
What I mean by this is for example the letters A, T, N, M, and S. I typed them in that order due to hand-shape. E and O have similar shapings, as do R and Q.
Another is the cardinal sin of those learning ASL: NEVER sign 'is', as in the letter I, held to your mouth and then move it away. That's sign-english, and will drive bonkers a deaf person who speak ASL.
Now, for a little side-story:
There was a girl that I liked, A LOT, when I was in high school. She was very cute, and her mother was deaf, so she and her mother helped teach the class.
One of the exercises was to sign "Hello, my name is ___, I am happy to meet you."
The sign goes as thus:
Hello (wave hello)
my (right hand placed against chest)
name (letter N draped over opposite arm)
(fingerspell your name here)
-----
I (point to yourself)
happy (open hand, pat chest)
meet (more on this in a moment)
you (point to the person you're speaking to)
Now, above you'll notice I didn't define "meet". Well, I was bad the previous week, and didn't attend, so I read up in a book how to do the signs, and of course I paired up with cute girl in question.
The problem with the drawing in the book is that they weren't that great. What I saw for "meet" was the sign for the letter K on both hands, and draw them together. The letter K is pointer and middle fingers pointed out, the rest of your fingers bent, and your thumb pointed forward, resting naturally between the pointer and middle fingers.
Well, the mother of this girl was standing there, and about the time I signed "meet", her eyes went wide and looked wild and almost angry.
"What??? What did I do wrong??" She and her daughter started dying laughing....
They finally explained that people usually "meet" standing up.
Those weren't letter K's, they were supposed to be representative of people...
But I have to say this:
;)
The audiophile with the biggest flamethrower is going to win out on this article.
My wife owns over 500 cds. Her 40GB iPod no longer cuts it. I'm going to have to upgrade her to an iPod Photo. Eep.
Agreed. I'm a mac/freebsd user here, and I have to appreciate Apple's attitude toward user security.
Out of the box, the root account is locked out. You can't log in as root unless you type this:
sudo passwd root
Then it prompts you for your super user password, then asks you to reset root's password.
You can have sudoers on the system, but no root. Lin(are|dows|spire) could have done well to go with this model as well. Have no idea why they didn't.
Well, without an article it's a little hard to comment a lot.
You're new here, aren't you?
RealBasic 5.5+ does a large portion of the work involved for you. Simple applications port right over to Windows, Mac, and Linux (thus FreeBSD).
Makes UI development easy, and I do all of the 'hard working' code in perl.
Perhaps, but I'm also willing to bet you're not listed in any of the spyware removal apps as an offender and getting your cookies automatically removed as a result.
If you play clean, the world will let you be. Play dirty, and the world will blacklist you. Just the way it is.
If all the geeks would just stop having so much sex in Albion you wouldn't have this problem.
Oh wait...
Then no one would believe it. At least the rest of the year anything said on here is believed. ;)
Which is more lame, the story, or the fact that you knew Steve Jobs' salary off the top of your head? :p
The joke is in NOT READIBLE THE fscking ARTICLE BEFoRe POSTING.
:P Jokes on me. :)
Gawd I'm lame.
Yes.
Likely? No.
I'm sitting on top of a first post opportunity with nothing to say. Wow.
I need my hot swedish love!
The only benefit I see to this is that it allows dynamic content where an image would have been used before.
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I guess this is good, except I'm running flash click to play in Firefox, and have JavaScript pretty paired down.
This would count as a beneficial use of flash in my book. I've used WEFT and Bitstream's solution. Never did work in Mozilla.
If this will work well, then I'm all for it.