I'll second the DirectNIC recommendation. I have 3 personal domains with them, one of them using their DirectDNS service. No problems at all. Cheap as well.
Does anybody remember ever paying $100+ for a domain in Network Solutions (InterNIC)? And you had to buy 2 years contracts? God, I feel old...
When I'm setting up a new system, I hate using sudo for a ton of commands and would rather have access to a root shell while I'm first setting up a computer or when I'm setting up a new application.
Well it doesn't have to be cheap because you are only buying it once while you will be (realistically) downloading text or pdf files from the internets.
Would you take it with you to the bathroom? Would you mind reading in bed knowing that you might fall asleep on top of it? If it's not going to be cheap, it's got to be able to take a certain amount of abuse.
I've actually had 3 doctors ask me not to come back when I started asking too many questions.
Three doctors!! What the hell kind of questions where you asking??
-- "Say, doc, is that your wife in the picture? She's hot. You guys up for a threesome?"
But yes, doctors are quite condescending with their patients. Not to their faces, tho. I used to go out with a doctor and the whine from her was very much like the whining I sometimes hear from my friends in the IT industry. Only instead of a user who insists in opening strange attachements and getting virus, you hear about the patient who insists in smoking and drinking in spite of having had a stroke or two in the past.
Having said that, you might be able to run your critical apps under WINE, and use Linux X clients to run it via SSH.
... after making sure with your software/support provided that this is a supported configuration. Otherwise, they might use it as an excuse when something breaks (even if it's not a wine issue) to wiggle out of fixing a particularly difficult problem (if they are anything like the provider of a company I used to work with, they probably sold you the Windows licenses and might not be tickled pink to see the OS upgrade revenue going away).
Don't rush things. Break in the users nice and calm. Set up sample workstations for each environment and ask them to give them a try and get their feedback. That way you'll be prepared to deal with the little (yet annoying) issues or even better, you'll be able to avoid them. For example, in Windows, the U.S. International keyboard layout differs slightly from the Linux version in the way they handle the entering of special characters. It's no big deal, but for a fast touch typist, it can really wreck your pace while you retrain your finger memory.
Good luck. If you do succeed, please post your story and let us know.
most people (including judges, elected officials, and others who are in a position to directly change the situation) don't realize that having no access to the source code means votes cast using the machines are unverifiable
Judges are not expected to be expert at every subject. They should, however, be able to find expert advice for the subject at hand. Both parts should have presented properly accredited expert witnesses and the court might have retained independent experts as well (IANAL).
If the fact that the judge is not knowledgeable enough to rule accordingly in an issue indicates that the judicial system (in addition to the election system) might be broken.
Or maybe the complainant dropped the ball somewhere in the process.
I wonder how many people have upgraded to Apache 2.2 in order to get mod_proxy_balancer to balance between Mongrel instances... that's why I did it for indi.
You might want to have your site check for the availability of javascript, otherwise, you get a rather uninformative code dump in the screen.
Uh? So the PTR of the originating IP has to match the domain of the destination?
But even if you meant the "From:", how do you deal with hosted mail domains? My domain might be one of thousands hosted at "smtpserver.bigprovider.com" or the like.
Thinkpad A31 here. The only issue I have with hibernation is with an ADSL modem I use at home sometimes. Whenever it's plugged in, thge system refuses to go into hibernation. I guess your problem might be a driver issue or a recalcitrant background program (antivirus or the like).
Linux has had 2 (3?) separate attempts to get hibernate support working properly and while it is pretty good now it still isn't perfect.
Indeed. But how come, Win2k and XP hibernation features work damn near perfect and Vista doesn't?
I hibernate my XP laptop every night and I've yet to encounter a BSOD or another problem. Well, I did encounter a couple of instances where the network wouldn't work, but disabling and re-enabling the network fixed that.
Since when did an ISP get the ability to dictate what I could/could not install on my computer?
They didn't. You are free to install pretty much whatever you want/can in your machines. They do get to decide, however, if your traffic is acceptable to pass thru *their* network. Read your TOS.
Problem with captchas is the accessibility issue. People using screen readers and the like (visually impaired) won't be able to contact you using the form.
I think that the case of Singapore demonstrates that democracy isn't a prerequisite for a effective government.
Isn't Singapore a parliamentary republic? They are not a straight-up democracy (no country is, I guess) but they do chose their leaders by popular votes, don't they?
In Outlook 2003, I didn't find how to forward as attachment. You have to copy the headers from the properties window, and paste them in your forwarded message. Far too complicated to explain over the phone to someone who doesn't have a clue
Compose a new message, then drag the message you want to forward from the Inbox (or whatever folder) into the new message windows. That's it.
If you want to see the headers of a message, open it and select "View" and "Options".
I wish outlook had a "view source" like that of thunderbird or Gmail, where it lets me see the raw message in ascii (great for spamassassin testing).
Other than "game support", all of your other points are debatable.
Better games? Maybe, unless you prefer RTS or MMORPG Better controls? I know purists that would barf at the tought of playing FPS games with anything other than a keyboard/mouse combo (myself, I like either one just fine).
But yeah, this article doesn't add anything new to the state of gaming on linux. Move along.
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Boy, are you missing big time... Nook and Tortimer are just puppets. The man behind the curtain is Mr. Resetti.
I'll second the DirectNIC recommendation. I have 3 personal domains with them, one of them using their DirectDNS service. No problems at all. Cheap as well.
Does anybody remember ever paying $100+ for a domain in Network Solutions (InterNIC)? And you had to buy 2 years contracts? God, I feel old...
When I'm setting up a new system, I hate using sudo for a ton of commands and would rather have access to a root shell while I'm first setting up a computer or when I'm setting up a new application.
"sudo bash" doesn't work for you?
I wonder if it would possible to piggyback onto openDNS's system with some sort of browser plug in, detect their redirect and kill it.
What for? The end result would be the same as not using openDNS servers at all.
Well it doesn't have to be cheap because you are only buying it once while you will be (realistically) downloading text or pdf files from the internets.
Would you take it with you to the bathroom? Would you mind reading in bed knowing that you might fall asleep on top of it? If it's not going to be cheap, it's got to be able to take a certain amount of abuse.
By extension, wouldn't you have to mop up the blood stains as well?
You had to clean them using water arrows.
I've actually had 3 doctors ask me not to come back when I started asking too many questions.
Three doctors!! What the hell kind of questions where you asking??
-- "Say, doc, is that your wife in the picture? She's hot. You guys up for a threesome?"
But yes, doctors are quite condescending with their patients. Not to their faces, tho. I used to go out with a doctor and the whine from her was very much like the whining I sometimes hear from my friends in the IT industry. Only instead of a user who insists in opening strange attachements and getting virus, you hear about the patient who insists in smoking and drinking in spite of having had a stroke or two in the past.
Having said that, you might be able to run your critical apps under WINE, and use Linux X clients to run it via SSH.
... after making sure with your software/support provided that this is a supported configuration. Otherwise, they might use it as an excuse when something breaks (even if it's not a wine issue) to wiggle out of fixing a particularly difficult problem (if they are anything like the provider of a company I used to work with, they probably sold you the Windows licenses and might not be tickled pink to see the OS upgrade revenue going away).
Don't rush things. Break in the users nice and calm. Set up sample workstations for each environment and ask them to give them a try and get their feedback. That way you'll be prepared to deal with the little (yet annoying) issues or even better, you'll be able to avoid them. For example, in Windows, the U.S. International keyboard layout differs slightly from the Linux version in the way they handle the entering of special characters. It's no big deal, but for a fast touch typist, it can really wreck your pace while you retrain your finger memory.
Good luck. If you do succeed, please post your story and let us know.
most people (including judges, elected officials, and others who are in a position to directly change the situation) don't realize that having no access to the source code means votes cast using the machines are unverifiable
Judges are not expected to be expert at every subject. They should, however, be able to find expert advice for the subject at hand. Both parts should have presented properly accredited expert witnesses and the court might have retained independent experts as well (IANAL).
If the fact that the judge is not knowledgeable enough to rule accordingly in an issue indicates that the judicial system (in addition to the election system) might be broken.
Or maybe the complainant dropped the ball somewhere in the process.
The delay won't help if they already sent the entire data
Exim lets you disallow pipelining, and any peer that tries it without it being advertised to them gets dropped.
I wonder how many people have upgraded to Apache 2.2 in order to get mod_proxy_balancer to balance between Mongrel instances... that's why I did it for indi.
You might want to have your site check for the availability of javascript, otherwise, you get a rather uninformative code dump in the screen.
Uh? So the PTR of the originating IP has to match the domain of the destination?
But even if you meant the "From:", how do you deal with hosted mail domains? My domain might be one of thousands hosted at "smtpserver.bigprovider.com" or the like.
http://www.burnatonce.com/ (based on cdrdao, as far as I know. My favorite for the time being)
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ (works for dvds as well)
Both free (as in beer), for Windows, and easily found using Google.
I'm not trying to knock off Linux (which I also use), but there's plenty of freeware out there for Windows.
Considering the fact that the vast majority of NWN players in existence are Linux and Mac users, they just eliminated rollover of the old fan base.
Can you provide a link or citation for that fact?
Thinkpad A31 here. The only issue I have with hibernation is with an ADSL modem I use at home sometimes. Whenever it's plugged in, thge system refuses to go into hibernation. I guess your problem might be a driver issue or a recalcitrant background program (antivirus or the like).
Linux has had 2 (3?) separate attempts to get hibernate support working properly and while it is pretty good now it still isn't perfect.
Indeed. But how come, Win2k and XP hibernation features work damn near perfect and Vista doesn't?
I hibernate my XP laptop every night and I've yet to encounter a BSOD or another problem. Well, I did encounter a couple of instances where the network wouldn't work, but disabling and re-enabling the network fixed that.
I've yet to meet someone who liked Anarchy Online.
Since when did an ISP get the ability to dictate what I could/could not install on my computer?
They didn't. You are free to install pretty much whatever you want/can in your machines. They do get to decide, however, if your traffic is acceptable to pass thru *their* network. Read your TOS.
Most of the time, I can't while sober. Is that a g or a 9? Does case matters? That kinda look like an S but could be a distortion...
It's for the customer!
"Or as we like to say it, the Krustomer"
eaching kids about spam in school would be a good start.. we'd see the benefits eventually!
They already do. In some schools, at least. They teach about spam, phishing and other "internet risks".
Problem with captchas is the accessibility issue. People using screen readers and the like (visually impaired) won't be able to contact you using the form.
I think that the case of Singapore demonstrates that democracy isn't a prerequisite for a effective government.
Isn't Singapore a parliamentary republic? They are not a straight-up democracy (no country is, I guess) but they do chose their leaders by popular votes, don't they?
In Outlook 2003, I didn't find how to forward as attachment. You have to copy the headers from the properties window, and paste them in your forwarded message. Far too complicated to explain over the phone to someone who doesn't have a clue
Compose a new message, then drag the message you want to forward from the Inbox (or whatever folder) into the new message windows. That's it.
If you want to see the headers of a message, open it and select "View" and "Options".
I wish outlook had a "view source" like that of thunderbird or Gmail, where it lets me see the raw message in ascii (great for spamassassin testing).
Other than "game support", all of your other points are debatable.
Better games? Maybe, unless you prefer RTS or MMORPG
Better controls? I know purists that would barf at the tought of playing FPS games with anything other than a keyboard/mouse combo (myself, I like either one just fine).
But yeah, this article doesn't add anything new to the state of gaming on linux. Move along.