I don't see why emmett's so upset with it. he may not like AOL, but hey, it's a megacorp that officially released one of their little programs for that "other" operating system. Sure, it's not a "killer" app, but it's better than having to find some obscure-named-beta AIM client on freshmean for a Linux newbie who just converted from Windows.
Now he/she doesn't have to reboot to windows to talk to their teeny-bopper friends.
Now only if they had Photoshop and hundreds of other apps by the original company making it for Linux. Woohoo!
>Sorry, but you've got no defense here. Balsa, Mutt, even emacs will read mail. Gnome folks are even building an Outlook clone.
>4. Editor. Uhh, I use vi and emacs when there is absolutely, positively, nothing else available. Don't get me wrong, I first learned emacs over 8 years ago. But there are some basic functions which I rely upon that don't exist in emacs. Give me something like HomeSite on a linux box and you've got a convert.
Try Screem.
That's whatI liked about the redhat distro. It came with Pico and pine. 2 great tastes that taste great together. If Corel Linux was made for the native win95 users for its fancy interface, why was pico and pine left out? Those to me are the easiest to use console mail/editor apps that I have used since 1993.
Just my 2 cents.
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That's probably what's stopping of spam difficult.
Let's think about this. When you spam, you are advertising a product/service. YOu have to leave some sort of legitimate contact info so people can buy YOUR stuff., SO, logical choice would be to call their 1-800 order number and bitch the hell out of them, right? What if the spammer was advertising someone else?
So I guess that would leave it to go directly after the spammers themselves, whether it is a legitimate or a competitor's phone number/mailing addy. Argh.
I want an old TI-994/A PEB box. It already has the slots, 2 5 1/4 drive bays (can you use a CD-ROM drive sidewys?) and a cooling fan. ONly downside is that it just weighs a TON, but it would be SOO retro.
A friend of mine made a case from scratch with transparent plastic. Works nicely, but he's going to paint it a rust color.
Reminds me of an old SNL commercial in the 70s where they had an LED wristwatch. It took 4 buttons to be simultaneously pressed to see the time. It took 2 people to press all the buttons together.
If SVG takes off and made hardware for SVG, I would recommend they focus on speeding up the filter effects. Everything I've seen for editing/viewing of SVG graphics WITH filter effects slows down, a LOT. Of course you can do all sorts of neat things with the filter effects, but it is complicated(i once made a rather complicated flowchart form one of the w3c's examples).
Imagine someday counterstrike/quake 3 like graphics made on the fly from a server in SVG. It would be mind boggling. Wait, would that be VRML then?
Oh well, still good for quick and dirty vector graphics. You can make your insignia in a few lines and still have the XML be human-readable. It's the path statements that get a bit complicated to read, and that's best left to software to do that.
heh, I can now surf to here and not slack off at work. The company I work for is working on SVG, and i must say you can really impress the programmers when you can do/edit SVG by hand just to get things right.
In response to asteroids, yes, someone did make an SVG/ECMAscript asteroids game. I couldn't make more than 1 function in ECMA script until IE conked out on me with bizarre error messages(I was doing functions for moving the SVG-rendered ship around).
I would like to see this format take off though. Even though there is no sound support like Flash, it makes up for it in many other ways. I can't wait until I can scroll through blueprints on a web browser with all sorts of attention to detail.
Back when i was VERY young, our house had a rec room in the basement, complete with bar and.....
an arcade game.
It was a very old one, Car Polo(made in 1977) to be exact. it was like a cocktail cabinet(monitor faced up), but 4 people stood up and had steering wheels and a gas pedal. Basically, it was playing Tennis with cars.
I have no idea how anyone got it downstairs since this cabinet was H U G E. Eventually the game died, but for some reason we kept the monitor after for awhile.
I would love to have one of those mini-cabinets like they had at the Minnesota State fair, but would be more than happy with a used cocktail for MAME. Now getting it situiated in my apartment would be a problem. Oh well, it would make a nice dining table.
I'd be happy with just a pre-83 marquee to stick on top of my monitor at work.
Let's face it, there are a billion ad-banner flooded porn sites out on the net. Practically all of these are just there to show you naked girls and grab your credit card number. Many of them do dirty tricks such as slightly-misspelled domain names.
For god's sake let them have their own TLD like they were some sort of country.
And if there happens to be nudity on a few non.sex sites(paintings, etc), judge on a case-by-case basis. Obviously, the Venus De Milo isn't smut.
What about if you consistenly use the same bogus info to several websites? perhaps some company is compiling info about "Hugh Jass" someday hoping to get his/her real info and send them TONS of junk mail.
Can junkbuster filter out useless 1x1 images completely? I mean, I can live without a 1 pixel image or three on a web page.
Cool, I could put this in my primitive Triumph and put in all sorts of neat-o diagnostic equipment. I could type in commands like "tune -l/dev/carburettor" or run top to see how the vital stats of the engine, temprature and other things are doing. No, wait, I'm just asking for something else to break down on my car.
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As a QA tester person, I can understand the anger somewhat over what's going on with Mozilla.
But I realize all I can do in my role with testing software is of course, reporting and verifying bugs. It's not my role to fix 'em, nor have really any say on new features.
In fact, the most I can do is reject a build if it is way super-unstable, and wait for a better one(acceptance testing).
But in my job I have seen more-important bugs go by that i have reported, but the programmers don't feel like fixing. With some I am a bit more zealous about, knowing that the users of the soon-to-be software would be screaming bloody murder about it.
SO, after my whining, what do I see? Bug not fixed, and they added in some stupid feature nobody will really make use of.
Trust me, a Napster for ROMs(whether they be arcade, console, etc) would be a blessing. Finding MAME ROMs(that aren't corrupted or for earlier versions of MAME) are difficult to find. I find myself going through 20 pop-up ad windows, "top 100 sites" and referral sites(meaning they don't have anything but links to sites that may have it), and end up at a dead-end with a 404. With the harassment of Dave's Classics that prompted them to remove the ROMs, and video game companies that won't wake up(or are out of business), a Napster for ROMs is much needed for those who wanna play some old-school games.
I dunno. She's 44 and she doesn't look that good in the pictures I've scoured for. I'd rather go out with the Helen Hunt look-alike operator in the MicroWarehouse ads.
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Uhh, wasn't Netscape making netscape for linux? Don't confuse corporate buyouts for who made what.
I don't see why emmett's so upset with it. he may not like AOL, but hey, it's a megacorp that officially released one of their little programs for that "other" operating system. Sure, it's not a "killer" app, but it's better than having to find some obscure-named-beta AIM client on freshmean for a Linux newbie who just converted from Windows.
Now he/she doesn't have to reboot to windows to talk to their teeny-bopper friends.
Now only if they had Photoshop and hundreds of other apps by the original company making it for Linux. Woohoo!
>3. Mail Client.
>Sorry, but you've got no defense here. Balsa, Mutt, even emacs will read mail. Gnome folks are even building an Outlook clone.
>4. Editor. Uhh, I use vi and emacs when there is absolutely, positively, nothing else available. Don't get me wrong, I first learned emacs over 8 years ago. But there are some basic functions which I rely upon that don't exist in emacs. Give me something like HomeSite on a linux box and you've got a convert.
Try Screem.
That's whatI liked about the redhat distro. It came with Pico and pine. 2 great tastes that taste great together. If Corel Linux was made for the native win95 users for its fancy interface, why was pico and pine left out? Those to me are the easiest to use console mail/editor apps that I have used since 1993.
Just my 2 cents.
That's probably what's stopping of spam difficult.
Let's think about this. When you spam, you are advertising a product/service. YOu have to leave some sort of legitimate contact info so people can buy YOUR stuff., SO, logical choice would be to call their 1-800 order number and bitch the hell out of them, right? What if the spammer was advertising someone else?
So I guess that would leave it to go directly after the spammers themselves, whether it is a legitimate or a competitor's phone number/mailing addy. Argh.
I want an old TI-994/A PEB box. It already has the slots, 2 5 1/4 drive bays (can you use a CD-ROM drive sidewys?) and a cooling fan. ONly downside is that it just weighs a TON, but it would be SOO retro.
A friend of mine made a case from scratch with transparent plastic. Works nicely, but he's going to paint it a rust color.
Reminds me of an old SNL commercial in the 70s where they had an LED wristwatch. It took 4 buttons to be simultaneously pressed to see the time. It took 2 people to press all the buttons together.
Yeah, but for some reason it won't listen to constructive criticism about Linux. :)
Ahh yes, Edison Carter. About every month, there's always 1 slashdot story that a Max Headroom episode covered 14 years ago.
I haven't have the time to digest all the SVG docs yet, so, please permit me to ask this question :
>Is it possible that SOUND is added as an add-on - sort of like a plugin or tag-on thing - for SVG ?
That I do not know for sure. I know with javascript you can stick in sounds(I think, I forgot the gory details).
>In other words, is the SVG implementation flexible enough to allow other types of addons ?
IIRC, you can stick in foreign namespaces, such as HTML into svg documents, so i don't see why not.
Yes, I've seen it done before. You can turn landmarks on/off and zoom in/out to your heart's content. You could make mapquest go really fast! heh
If SVG takes off and made hardware for SVG, I would recommend they focus on speeding up the filter effects. Everything I've seen for editing/viewing of SVG graphics WITH filter effects slows down, a LOT. Of course you can do all sorts of neat things with the filter effects, but it is complicated(i once made a rather complicated flowchart form one of the w3c's examples).
Imagine someday counterstrike/quake 3 like graphics made on the fly from a server in SVG. It would be mind boggling. Wait, would that be VRML then?
Oh well, still good for quick and dirty vector graphics. You can make your insignia in a few lines and still have the XML be human-readable. It's the path statements that get a bit complicated to read, and that's best left to software to do that.
heh, I can now surf to here and not slack off at work. The company I work for is working on SVG, and i must say you can really impress the programmers when you can do/edit SVG by hand just to get things right.
In response to asteroids, yes, someone did make an SVG/ECMAscript asteroids game. I couldn't make more than 1 function in ECMA script until IE conked out on me with bizarre error messages(I was doing functions for moving the SVG-rendered ship around).
I would like to see this format take off though. Even though there is no sound support like Flash, it makes up for it in many other ways. I can't wait until I can scroll through blueprints on a web browser with all sorts of attention to detail.
Back when i was VERY young, our house had a rec room in the basement, complete with bar and.....
an arcade game.
It was a very old one, Car Polo(made in 1977) to be exact. it was like a cocktail cabinet(monitor faced up), but 4 people stood up and had steering wheels and a gas pedal. Basically, it was playing Tennis with cars.
I have no idea how anyone got it downstairs since this cabinet was H U G E. Eventually the game died, but for some reason we kept the monitor after for awhile.
I would love to have one of those mini-cabinets like they had at the Minnesota State fair, but would be more than happy with a used cocktail for MAME. Now getting it situiated in my apartment would be a problem. Oh well, it would make a nice dining table.
I'd be happy with just a pre-83 marquee to stick on top of my monitor at work.
I am going to sue the next gun manufacturer the next time I get shot. The bullet ejected out of the barrel too fast!
Let's face it, there are a billion ad-banner flooded porn sites out on the net. Practically all of these are just there to show you naked girls and grab your credit card number. Many of them do dirty tricks such as slightly-misspelled domain names.
.sex sites(paintings, etc), judge on a case-by-case basis. Obviously, the Venus De Milo isn't smut.
For god's sake let them have their own TLD like they were some sort of country.
And if there happens to be nudity on a few non
Good idea but..
1. It's already behind schedule
2. Blacklisting certain companies could get you all sorts of legal harassment from said companies. Look at the whole Cyber Patrol/peacefire thing.
What about if you consistenly use the same bogus info to several websites? perhaps some company is compiling info about "Hugh Jass" someday hoping to get his/her real info and send them TONS of junk mail.
Can junkbuster filter out useless 1x1 images completely? I mean, I can live without a 1 pixel image or three on a web page.
Look closely under the article.
Obviously Carnivore is the 5-inch 486 cube!
Cool, I could put this in my primitive Triumph and put in all sorts of neat-o diagnostic equipment. I could type in commands like "tune -l /dev/carburettor" or run top to see how the vital stats of the engine, temprature and other things are doing. No, wait, I'm just asking for something else to break down on my car.
2000-08-02 14:28:18 Compromised Linux servers used in DOS attack (articles,news) (rejected)
Speak of the devil.....
I was a depived child. I had a TI-994/A so I didn't get to play all the hip modern games(ultima,etc) at the time.
My favorite game for the TI tho was always Tunnels of Doom. Took forever to load on cassette, but it was an aweseome RPG.
As a QA tester person, I can understand the anger somewhat over what's going on with Mozilla.
But I realize all I can do in my role with testing software is of course, reporting and verifying bugs. It's not my role to fix 'em, nor have really any say on new features.
In fact, the most I can do is reject a build if it is way super-unstable, and wait for a better one(acceptance testing).
But in my job I have seen more-important bugs go by that i have reported, but the programmers don't feel like fixing. With some I am a bit more zealous about, knowing that the users of the soon-to-be software would be screaming bloody murder about it.
SO, after my whining, what do I see? Bug not fixed, and they added in some stupid feature nobody will really make use of.
Oh well. I've done my part.
Just my 2 cents.
Trust me, a Napster for ROMs(whether they be arcade, console, etc) would be a blessing. Finding MAME ROMs(that aren't corrupted or for earlier versions of MAME) are difficult to find. I find myself going through 20 pop-up ad windows, "top 100 sites" and referral sites(meaning they don't have anything but links to sites that may have it), and end up at a dead-end with a 404. With the harassment of Dave's Classics that prompted them to remove the ROMs, and video game companies that won't wake up(or are out of business), a Napster for ROMs is much needed for those who wanna play some old-school games.
Why on earth would you do that? You open source zealots bash Microsoft hourly for such actions as those.
I dunno. She's 44 and she doesn't look that good in the pictures I've scoured for. I'd rather go out with the Helen Hunt look-alike operator in the MicroWarehouse ads.