I'll be honest about this...Using the google search feature from mozilla, I've press enter (to load the address) instead of selecting search google on more than one occasion.
This type of error could result in some of the bogus queries depending on how mozilla handles it. I'm actually not sure if this type of mistake is passed off to the resolver libraries or not...I should check out my DNS logs.
In all of these SCO is (not) going to sue stories, the jist is the same. Linux (and now apparently other OS's) are using some SCO IP somehow. What any of these stories fail to mention is which SCO IP this is.
SCO would like us to 'license' this IP from them, and that's all fine and good. Personally, I'd rather remove the code, give SCO the big FU, and carry on.
Does anyone know which libraries are being contested here? Just curious.
I think the point you make is exactly why Linux should be adopted in a lot of cases. Although VB itself isn't (legally) free, companies use VB for quick onc-off type apps. The reason: it's cheap to develop junk with VB. This is the same reason that so many business' have horrendous Access databases attempting to do things Access was never made to do. It's _cheaper_ to have Office Joe create an Access database than to get someone to build a real one using MS SQL Server.
Now, if you buy my point that companies are (understandably) trying to be cheap by using these RAD tools, I'd like to offer my solution.
Linux and it's associated tools are _FREE_!! Instead of developing a rinky-dink little DB in Access that will tie you to Access forever, why not use phpMyAdmin and build a MySQL database on a standard technology. A little php/perl/(asp?) and you can build a nice web front end. Can Office Joe do this? Not likely. Should Office Joe be creating your corporate databases? Most definitely not. There is a reason people have specialized knowledge...It's so that they know how to do things _properly_! A multi-user database with replication is not the proper use for Access no matter what anybody tries to tell you!
Now, I freely admit that there is no VB for Linux. Again, although tools like VB will be developed over time for Linux, why not pay someone a little more up front to develop a more robust solution in the first place. (Note that a lack of VB doesn't mean that the linux desktop is non-scriptable.) When you're not paying for the tools, you can afford a little more for the staff! In this case, you'll likely end up with a (slightly?) more portable solution!
I took a business (MIS) course as an elective during my last semester at University. I had a man with a PhD swear up and down that UML was a programming language...of course, he also had some strange ideas about how TCP/IP packets are chopped up for delivery.
Although I agree with your sentiment, I think that this is where the line is crossed. You've switched from passive to active. Even though your intentions are good, you've _modified_ the machine at that point...
I like the idea, I just think I'd stop at killing the process.
Ok, so they're found guilty of price fixing. That's good. This seems like the legal system working properly.
The problem?
While these people were able to gouge customers on music purchases for years, said customers may claim only $20 as part of this class action. Seems to me that if I was hosed on X purchases, I should be able to file X separate claims...obvoiusly not at $20/claim, but up to and including X * Y (where Y is the retribution amount)!!
Not using mandrake here, but on RH8 (2.4.18-19.8.0) using NVidia drivers, I have had issues where grip causes some instabilities...seems to be a problems with the ide-scsi emulation. On exit, it sends a message that fails, and then a loop occurs.
I thought it was something to do with my hardware (got a real cheap burner here), but maybe it's a combination of kernel + software + ??
Food for thought anyway. I've (for now...) solved the grip problem by killing it's process instead of exiting the program.
I wondered why their (MS) broadband routers and wireless broadband routers were so much cheaper than the competing linksys, 3com and d-link products...now it's all clear!
At my last job, that is exactly the conversation I had. My boss said: We get too much spam here, do whatever it takes to stop it. I said: Sure, I'll have qmail do some rbl polling before accepting mail. Worked great for about a month...cut roughly 50% of the spam that network received. Then, boss says: Why can't I get email from ebay seller X? I say: Oh he's rbl'd...we don't take mail from there. He says: Ok, turn off the rbl.
After that, I turned on my own bayesian filtering and said F the rest of the network/users.
I think that even though they've been worried about virus' disguised as mp3's (read: the.vbs files that plague file swapping networks) your point still stands.
This trend starts in Highschool. At least in Ontario Canada, anyway.
The Ontario curriculum mandates that all students take 5 english courses while only taking 2 math courses. This has always really annoyed me...more for the fact that I found the english as useless as an english major would find math courses.
I agree with your point. If 'math/science people' have to take arts courses, 'arts people' should have to take the same amount of math/science courses. It's only fair...and it does lead to being more rounded. I can honestly say that I enjoyed the History courses I chose for my arts credit.
I've got a comic that says otherwise. I forget what the series was called, but it was 4 Batman comics in one specially bound comic. They were set when Bruce Wayne was of retirement age.
Anyway, he nuked Superman, and then kicked the crap out of him while he was in a weakened condition. He didn't kill him, but he won the fight.
Just a FYI. If I remember what the series was called, I'll post it here too.
If only my English teacher could be as easily duped as the U.S. Patent Office.
Your English teacher likely can be duped just as easily...if they're anything like the ones I had. Just fill your pages with what they want to hear...not what you actually think. Most english teachers I ever had started docking marks the second an original thought occurred...this may or may not have started me on the path to a life-long distaste for that subject!
Try explaining that to 9 out of 10 people walking down the street.
Even most (in my experience) IT employers think 'Computer Science ~= Programming`...it really annoys me some days.
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I'll be honest about this...Using the google search feature from mozilla, I've press enter (to load the address) instead of selecting search google on more than one occasion.
This type of error could result in some of the bogus queries depending on how mozilla handles it. I'm actually not sure if this type of mistake is passed off to the resolver libraries or not...I should check out my DNS logs.
-Ben
In all of these SCO is (not) going to sue stories, the jist is the same. Linux (and now apparently other OS's) are using some SCO IP somehow. What any of these stories fail to mention is which SCO IP this is.
SCO would like us to 'license' this IP from them, and that's all fine and good. Personally, I'd rather remove the code, give SCO the big FU, and carry on.
Does anyone know which libraries are being contested here? Just curious.
-Ben
I think the point you make is exactly why Linux should be adopted in a lot of cases. Although VB itself isn't (legally) free, companies use VB for quick onc-off type apps. The reason: it's cheap to develop junk with VB. This is the same reason that so many business' have horrendous Access databases attempting to do things Access was never made to do. It's _cheaper_ to have Office Joe create an Access database than to get someone to build a real one using MS SQL Server.
Now, if you buy my point that companies are (understandably) trying to be cheap by using these RAD tools, I'd like to offer my solution.
Linux and it's associated tools are _FREE_!! Instead of developing a rinky-dink little DB in Access that will tie you to Access forever, why not use phpMyAdmin and build a MySQL database on a standard technology. A little php/perl/(asp?) and you can build a nice web front end. Can Office Joe do this? Not likely. Should Office Joe be creating your corporate databases? Most definitely not. There is a reason people have specialized knowledge...It's so that they know how to do things _properly_! A multi-user database with replication is not the proper use for Access no matter what anybody tries to tell you!
Now, I freely admit that there is no VB for Linux. Again, although tools like VB will be developed over time for Linux, why not pay someone a little more up front to develop a more robust solution in the first place. (Note that a lack of VB doesn't mean that the linux desktop is non-scriptable.) When you're not paying for the tools, you can afford a little more for the staff! In this case, you'll likely end up with a (slightly?) more portable solution!
-Ben
Nope, 3 dimensional space reservation!
-Ben
I took a business (MIS) course as an elective during my last semester at University. I had a man with a PhD swear up and down that UML was a programming language...of course, he also had some strange ideas about how TCP/IP packets are chopped up for delivery.
-Ben
Although I agree with your sentiment, I think that this is where the line is crossed. You've switched from passive to active. Even though your intentions are good, you've _modified_ the machine at that point...
I like the idea, I just think I'd stop at killing the process.
-Ben
Ok, so they're found guilty of price fixing. That's good. This seems like the legal system working properly.
The problem?
While these people were able to gouge customers on music purchases for years, said customers may claim only $20 as part of this class action. Seems to me that if I was hosed on X purchases, I should be able to file X separate claims...obvoiusly not at $20/claim, but up to and including X * Y (where Y is the retribution amount)!!
This is a step, but not enough of one...
-Ben
Not using mandrake here, but on RH8 (2.4.18-19.8.0) using NVidia drivers, I have had issues where grip causes some instabilities...seems to be a problems with the ide-scsi emulation. On exit, it sends a message that fails, and then a loop occurs.
I thought it was something to do with my hardware (got a real cheap burner here), but maybe it's a combination of kernel + software + ??
Food for thought anyway. I've (for now...) solved the grip problem by killing it's process instead of exiting the program.
-Ben
All I could think was: "Hey, G.I. Joe had vehicles like this in the 80's!!"
-Ben
I wondered why their (MS) broadband routers and wireless broadband routers were so much cheaper than the competing linksys, 3com and d-link products...now it's all clear!
Try it as root...
-Ben
Try in Nautilus: Ctrl+L and enter applications:///
It's not obvious, but it seems that menu editing and arrangement are done through Nautilus now, as opposed to a stand-along menu manager.
I could be wrong on this, so please correct me if I am.
-Ben
That's how Norton/McAffee/ push AV software these days. Not only do they defend you from virus' now, they also protect you from 'malicious code'!!
Same shit, different pile.
-Ben
At my last job, that is exactly the conversation I had. My boss said: We get too much spam here, do whatever it takes to stop it. I said: Sure, I'll have qmail do some rbl polling before accepting mail. Worked great for about a month...cut roughly 50% of the spam that network received. Then, boss says: Why can't I get email from ebay seller X? I say: Oh he's rbl'd...we don't take mail from there. He says: Ok, turn off the rbl.
After that, I turned on my own bayesian filtering and said F the rest of the network/users.
-Ben
I think that even though they've been worried about virus' disguised as mp3's (read: the .vbs files that plague file swapping networks) your point still stands.
-Ben
Given the day, I'd mod that "+1 Funny (Points for Effort)" !
-Ben
I believe that Morgoth created the Orcs from Elves, as per 'The Silmarillion'. Sauron was/is one of Morgoth's disciples.
/. hasn't touched on this yet.
With TTT out today, I'm surprised that every other Tolkien fan on
-Ben
I think a new more accurate moderation is in order: Sad
-Ben
This trend starts in Highschool. At least in Ontario Canada, anyway.
The Ontario curriculum mandates that all students take 5 english courses while only taking 2 math courses. This has always really annoyed me...more for the fact that I found the english as useless as an english major would find math courses.
I agree with your point. If 'math/science people' have to take arts courses, 'arts people' should have to take the same amount of math/science courses. It's only fair...and it does lead to being more rounded. I can honestly say that I enjoyed the History courses I chose for my arts credit.
-Ben
I've got a comic that says otherwise. I forget what the series was called, but it was 4 Batman comics in one specially bound comic. They were set when Bruce Wayne was of retirement age.
Anyway, he nuked Superman, and then kicked the crap out of him while he was in a weakened condition. He didn't kill him, but he won the fight.
Just a FYI. If I remember what the series was called, I'll post it here too.
-Ben
Oh for some mod points. That was brilliant!
-Ben
Well said! I think that hits the nail on the head.
-Ben
If only my English teacher could be as easily duped as the U.S. Patent Office.
...not what you actually think . Most english teachers I ever had started docking marks the second an original thought occurred...this may or may not have started me on the path to a life-long distaste for that subject!
Your English teacher likely can be duped just as easily...if they're anything like the ones I had. Just fill your pages with what they want to hear
-Ben
Try explaining that to 9 out of 10 people walking down the street.
Even most (in my experience) IT employers think 'Computer Science ~= Programming`...it really annoys me some days.
-Ben
How about paper towel inside a plastic cup. Invert, and submerse in water.
It'll make the younger crowd ooh, and ahh. It may even give the older ones something to think about.
-Ben