ummmm... I suppose that's one way to do it. It tends to be more difficult than one alternative, though:
rename htm html *.htm
That said, I have to admit that your way will work better if you have files with 'htm' in the name (eg, htmltest.htm), but it doesn't work with whitespace (eg, 'my file.htm').
When you type instructions at a command line, you have to think about issues like grammar and syntax to get exactly what you want, in any given case. You can use different approaches, depending on what your underlying message is, and what you want to get out of it.
It's like using a spoken language, detailing exactly what you want, when and how you want it, and so on, rather than being limited to grunting and pointing, and hoping that what you are given is something similar to what you wanted.
The real question, I think, is how to get firewire under Linux out of the EXPERIMENTAL/UNSTABLE category. I know that I, for one, have to re-boot my machine immediately after using my firewire camera. If I don't, the machine will crash immediately when I try to burn the results to my USB CD-burner.
Both of these devices work beautifully, on their own; together, they remind me of my Windows days...
Two weeks ago, there was an article on slashdot about the
GPL's strength. In the referenced article, Eben Moglen, the General Counsel to the FSF, explains exactly why the GPL is in a stronger legal position than most licenses. In his second article on the subject, he explains why it has never gone to court. My favorite quote from this article is:
But perhaps we have succeeded too well. If I had used the courts to enforce the GPL years ago, Microsoft's whispering would now be falling on deaf ears. Just this month I have been working on a couple of moderately sticky situations. ``Look,'' I say, ``at how many people all over the world are pressuring me to enforce the GPL in court, just to prove I can. I really need to make an example of someone. Would you like to volunteer?''
Re:Anti-Semitic Advertisements on Google
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Google Juice
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One of the things I love most about Google is that it is so quick, easy, and inexpensive to publish an ad on it. Literally, anyone with a credit card can post an ad. With their new AdWords Select program, an advertiser just pays when someone clicks on the ad; the fee per click can be as low as 5 cents.
When a reader searches for words that the advertiser has selected as keywords, Google shows the ad. I think they might filter out obscene words, but I don't think they really have the ability to filter based on what the message in the advertiser is saying. It's a fully automated system.
I think it would be extremely difficult to filter out hate speech, or even to *define* hate speech in a way that could be filtered automatically. If you see a completely inappropriate ad, you may be able to convince the people at Google to remove it, by writing to their contact page.
Re:home movies:non-geeks::free software:geeks
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SSSCA Hearing
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According to IMDB, Metropolis was made in 1927. Sadly, the public domain only extends as far as 1923. Given that Steamboat Willie was produced one year later, in 1928, I don't think Metropolis will ever actually reach the public domain.:-(
I've been contemplating this for a while now. The existing heirarchical file system breaks down in a lot of cases. Having a keyword-based filesystem has the potential of working a lot better, especially if the computer is capable of generating most of the keywords. For instance, "pictures" would get all of the image files on the computer, while "my pictures" would get all image files under ~, "my pictures 2000" would return all pictures under ~ taken in 2000. All of the metadata needed to do this can be generated automatically by the computer, with one keyword "Hawaii" needing to be entered by someone for a "my Hawaii pictures in 2000."
With a keyword-based filesystem, it would also be possible to exclude files unless a particular keyword were entered. For instance, "my Hawaii pictures in 2000" might return a list of files, while "my Hawaii pr0n pictures in 2000" would return a completely separate list. The keyword "pr0n" might even be used by the computer as a flag to request a password before returning anything.
I like the idea a lot, though there are some tricky parts. It seems that having no directories or symbolic links will make it difficult to refer to one file from another, because files wouldn't necessarily have unique names. (eg, there may be a hundred different files called index.html on the computer; how do you tell which one gets linked to?)
Have you come across this? If so, how have you dealt with it? Also, do you have Mary on an FTP site somewhere? I'm very interested in it.
I hardly ever go to MSN, but if I need to do it (for some bizarre reason) in the future, my version of Konqueror will tell 'em that it's running IE 5.5 (because it has to say that...), on Linux (because it is;-).
Anyone wanting to do something similar can change the settings of their/usr/share/services/useragentstrings/ie55onwinnt5. desktop file, simply replacing any occurances of Windows 2000 with Linux 2.4.
I'm currently taking a class so that I can start putting stuff on the local public-access TV station. I'm planning to do a lot of short blurbs, including stuff against the DMCA, the SSSCA, the extent of copyright law in general, monopoly power, and so on, for an audience of people who don't necessarily know *anything* about the issues we discuss here every day. Given another three or four months, I think I'll get quite a collection.
I'm also planning to so some pro-Linux/Free Software stuff, as well as tutorials on using some Free Software programs.
The trickiest thing is the distribution. I'd love to just put the videos on my web site, and let everyone download them (GPLed, of course, so people can share them with others), but I pay enough for bandwidth that I'm afraid one slashdotting would wipe me out. Any ideas?
My letter to my friends and family
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Sklyarov Indicted
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Please feel free to add your own thoughts to this, and send it to everyone on your mailing list. It's time to get the word out to *EVERYBODY* exactly what this means to them.
SUBJECT: Help the blind, go to jail
Hi,
You know I normally don't send these things, but I think this one is extremely important, if we want to live in a free country.
On Tuesday, August 28, 2001, a Russian programmer named Dmitry Sklyarov was charged with a crime in the United States. The crime? Writing a program that enables blind people to access books stored in Adobe's proprietary eBook format. Under a new US law (the DMCA), it is now a felony to use any controlled electronic file in a way that has not been explicitly permitted by the publisher.
In Russia, where Dmitry wrote his program, Adobe's eBook software is illegal because it also prevents people from being able to print or back up the products that they bought. In America, we too have a right to fully use the products we buy, but our government hasn't made it illegal for private companies to restrict those rights. Dmitry's program made it possible for Russian consumers to use their eBooks as allowed by law. Here, enabling people to use the products they buy has become a felony.
For more information about Dmitry's case, see any of these sites:
Raising public awareness of this issue is very important. Please forward this message to other people you know, and ask your congressional representative to free Dmitry, and repeal the DMCA.
Slashdot Mirror
ummmm... I suppose that's one way to do it. It tends to be more difficult than one alternative, though:
That said, I have to admit that your way will work better if you have files with 'htm' in the name (eg, htmltest.htm), but it doesn't work with whitespace (eg, 'my file.htm').
When you type instructions at a command line, you have to think about issues like grammar and syntax to get exactly what you want, in any given case. You can use different approaches, depending on what your underlying message is, and what you want to get out of it.
It's like using a spoken language, detailing exactly what you want, when and how you want it, and so on, rather than being limited to grunting and pointing, and hoping that what you are given is something similar to what you wanted.
The real question, I think, is how to get firewire under Linux out of the EXPERIMENTAL/UNSTABLE category. I know that I, for one, have to re-boot my machine immediately after using my firewire camera. If I don't, the machine will crash immediately when I try to burn the results to my USB CD-burner.
Both of these devices work beautifully, on their own; together, they remind me of my Windows days...
Heh, sure. ;-)
There are currently five active flood warnings in Hawaii:
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/pages/watchwarn.html
Two weeks ago, there was an article on slashdot about the GPL's strength. In the referenced article, Eben Moglen, the General Counsel to the FSF, explains exactly why the GPL is in a stronger legal position than most licenses. In his second article on the subject, he explains why it has never gone to court. My favorite quote from this article is:
When a reader searches for words that the advertiser has selected as keywords, Google shows the ad. I think they might filter out obscene words, but I don't think they really have the ability to filter based on what the message in the advertiser is saying. It's a fully automated system.
I think it would be extremely difficult to filter out hate speech, or even to *define* hate speech in a way that could be filtered automatically. If you see a completely inappropriate ad, you may be able to convince the people at Google to remove it, by writing to their contact page.
According to IMDB, Metropolis was made in 1927. Sadly, the public domain only extends as far as 1923. Given that Steamboat Willie was produced one year later, in 1928, I don't think Metropolis will ever actually reach the public domain. :-(
I've been contemplating this for a while now. The existing heirarchical file system breaks down in a lot of cases. Having a keyword-based filesystem has the potential of working a lot better, especially if the computer is capable of generating most of the keywords. For instance, "pictures" would get all of the image files on the computer, while "my pictures" would get all image files under ~, "my pictures 2000" would return all pictures under ~ taken in 2000. All of the metadata needed to do this can be generated automatically by the computer, with one keyword "Hawaii" needing to be entered by someone for a "my Hawaii pictures in 2000."
With a keyword-based filesystem, it would also be possible to exclude files unless a particular keyword were entered. For instance, "my Hawaii pictures in 2000" might return a list of files, while "my Hawaii pr0n pictures in 2000" would return a completely separate list. The keyword "pr0n" might even be used by the computer as a flag to request a password before returning anything.
I like the idea a lot, though there are some tricky parts. It seems that having no directories or symbolic links will make it difficult to refer to one file from another, because files wouldn't necessarily have unique names. (eg, there may be a hundred different files called index.html on the computer; how do you tell which one gets linked to?)
Have you come across this? If so, how have you dealt with it? Also, do you have Mary on an FTP site somewhere? I'm very interested in it.
I hardly ever go to MSN, but if I need to do it (for some bizarre reason) in the future, my version of Konqueror will tell 'em that it's running IE 5.5 (because it has to say that...), on Linux (because it is ;-).
Anyone wanting to do something similar can change the settings of their /usr/share/services/useragentstrings/ie55onwinnt5. desktop file, simply replacing any occurances of Windows 2000 with Linux 2.4.
I'm currently taking a class so that I can start putting stuff on the local public-access TV station. I'm planning to do a lot of short blurbs, including stuff against the DMCA, the SSSCA, the extent of copyright law in general, monopoly power, and so on, for an audience of people who don't necessarily know *anything* about the issues we discuss here every day. Given another three or four months, I think I'll get quite a collection.
I'm also planning to so some pro-Linux/Free Software stuff, as well as tutorials on using some Free Software programs.
The trickiest thing is the distribution. I'd love to just put the videos on my web site, and let everyone download them (GPLed, of course, so people can share them with others), but I pay enough for bandwidth that I'm afraid one slashdotting would wipe me out. Any ideas?
Please feel free to add your own thoughts to this, and send it to everyone on your mailing list. It's time to get the word out to *EVERYBODY* exactly what this means to them.
SUBJECT: Help the blind, go to jail
Hi,
You know I normally don't send these things, but I think this one is extremely important, if we want to live in a free country.
On Tuesday, August 28, 2001, a Russian programmer named Dmitry Sklyarov was charged with a crime in the United States. The crime? Writing a program that enables blind people to access books stored in Adobe's proprietary eBook format. Under a new US law (the DMCA), it is now a felony to use any controlled electronic file in a way that has not been explicitly permitted by the publisher.
In Russia, where Dmitry wrote his program, Adobe's eBook software is illegal because it also prevents people from being able to print or back up the products that they bought. In America, we too have a right to fully use the products we buy, but our government hasn't made it illegal for private companies to restrict those rights. Dmitry's program made it possible for Russian consumers to use their eBooks as allowed by law. Here, enabling people to use the products they buy has become a felony.
For more information about Dmitry's case, see any of these sites:
http://www.freesklyarov.org/
http://www.anti-dmca.org/
http://www.eff.org/
You can help!
Raising public awareness of this issue is very important. Please forward this message to other people you know, and ask your congressional representative to free Dmitry, and repeal the DMCA.
Thank you,
--Joel