Well, I don't take those "normal precautions" I always took before I had a spam filter.
I don't obfuscate my email address anywhere. Not on Slashdot, not on Usenet, not on web pages.
I don't create fake emails for miscellaneous "free" services. I just provide my GMail address.
That's all it takes, I guess. In the last 12 hours, I received 32 spam emails.
Here's a screenshot. Between my original post and this one, my spam count dropped by two. (Irony of ironies, the RSS entry at the top of the screen links to a recipe of Ginger Spam Salad. So all you're missing are the ingredients.)
Until the machine finally died in 2003, I ran Debian on a P166 Laptop.
Sure, I ran wmaker or oroborous instead of GNOME or KDE, and lynx, or sometimes Phoenix, instead of Mozilla. But it worked fine.
(I tried Opera, but it didn't work out. I was limited to 640x480 if I wanted a decent color depth, and Opera's banner ads took up way too much screen space.)
In short, the Linux kernel runs plenty fast. You just need to pick your UI to fall within your machine's limitations.
Now comes the flipside...the student's Windows machine becomes bogged down with hundreds of pieces of spyware and adware, costing them money to get it fixed.
(Or, if they're here at GRCC, they can bring their PC to one of our free PC Clinics)
I'm president of the Computer Club here at Grand Rapids Community College. We have several Linux users in the club, including myself and the Vice President. However, we don't advocate Linux to the student population.
You see, we don't have time to support it. To borrow from Star Wars: There are always two, a master, and an apprentice. And the master better have time for all the apprentice's questions.
Getting someone into Linux is a big time investment. You become there "go-to" guy, they guy they turn to when they don't RTFM, when they RTFM, but don't understand it (Try "man 7 regex"), and when they totally borked their documentation resources.
I know. Years ago, I was the apprentice. And my "master" seems to have been on a sabbatical since then.
I'm taking Calc 2 this semester. If I wasn't, I *might* have time for one or two Linux apprentices. We'll see what happens this summer.
Interestingly, I think the new tagging beta might allow something similar. Looking at the article now, I see "pseudoscience, vaporware, perpetualmotion, freeenergy, badscience" listed as the tags.
You had one manipulator that took on whatever concave shape you gave it, centered on your views. Click a button, you added a brush in that shape. Click a different button, and you just subtracted that volume from whatever the manipulator overlayed.
When id released the source code to Quake under the GPL, they also GPL'd the QuakeC code from Quake 1.01, an earlier version. Developers (not saying who...) took the initiaitive and added the GPL license to the 1.06 QuakeC, after not getting a response from id on the issue.
So there's a way to limit the number of cached pages per tab, but no way to limit the total number of cached pages, for those of us who have fifteen tabs open?
If you're using Windows, I assume you checked the more advanced features offered by your video driver. If not, try going to the advanced properties for your display.
If that doesn't work, I know Adobe has a color profiler tool that comes with Photoshop. (It may come with the free Elements version; I don't know.) It may or may not help.
In any case, do what everyone else is suggesting, and check your video cable. If it's built-in to your display, you're SOL unless it's under warranty. If it's not, try dropping in a replacement cable.
Apple ][e here, too. Except the screen I used was color. And, well, the machine wasn't really mine, it was the school's. But in 2nd grade, that was my first love.
I remember turning on the computer without inserting a floppy, and having it boot up to a "]". Typing anything would get me "SYNTAX ERROR".
I don't remember why I thought it was a programming prompt. Perhaps I asked somebody. In any case, I went to the elementary school's library and checked out the books for COBOL, Pascal and BASIC, and tried each one. Obviously, it turned out to be BASIC.
I got that machine to do things that amazed the other kids. In 3rd grade, I used the LINE statement to make it look like we were traveling through a 16-color tunnel. I even started tutoring one of the kids in the Autistically Impared department in BASIC. He took it farther on his own time, and showed me a thing or two.
The first computer my family owned was a Tandy RLX 1000. (I think its still up in the attic somewhere.) We first ran DOS, then Windows 3.1. (minus protected mode, of course.)
My brother and I then got to share an 8086 equipped with a 1200bps modem that we used to dial into a local BBS. We eventually got an upgrade to a 386 that we shared. (Complete with LANTastic. Woohoo!) I got it one day, he got it the next.
Eventually, we were each given a Pentium 75MHz to play with. We all shared an ISDN internet connection. Thus began my full-time addiction to computers and the Internet.
The first game I've ever played that made me actively consider upgrading my computer.
And when the dollar numbers for that proved untenable, I started considering upgrading my grandparents' computer. (It's fast enough; it just needs non-integrated video.)
Here at GRCC, Computer Club runs a monthly event called PC Clinic where we fix machines for free. We've serviced more than 60 machines over the course of the three events we've run. We easily average more than 100 pieces of spyware on each machine we test.
Three or four machines had over 1000[sic] pieces of spyware, and one machine had over three thousand pieces, plus several variants of either Sasser or Sobig. (I forget which...that machine came in the door on our first day.)
We don't just service the machines of the elderly...we get a lot of uninformed college students and their parents, as well.
If you have any questions, drop me an email. I'd be happy to answer them. I'll respond to/. comments later, after class.:)
I wouldn't worry about the slightly different responses to red, green and blue wavelenths. Many different people can look at the same computer monitor and see the same image. (I believe modern phosphors have a fairly narrow emission range, but I can't cite my sources.:)
There are other technical issues, but it's still interesting to think about.
Writing a comment in spurts of freetime leads to a certain degree of miscommunication.
What I accidentally left out was, continued development of tunable lasers will eventually lead to laser sources tunable over the entire visible spectrum.
The other point was, given a sufficient variety of individual laser frequencies, one could approximate a full spectrum. I don't know the terms for the effects, but consider the efficiency of a band block filter. The filter is effective at its target frequency, less effective a short ways from its target, and not effective at all, farther away.
If you overlap the "less effective" ranges of the different frequencies, you get a crude simulation of a holographic lense crafted by "white" light. Tunable lasers would improve the art a great deal, of course.
Heh...yeah. "You see at 20 feet what others see at 20 feet."
But I was referring to normal in the philosphical sense. Without glasses, I'm 20/20. And my vision's better with them. Yet I feel like my vision is worse than normal when I don't wear glasses. See the conflict?
The eye has receptors for three colors, red green and blue. So I take it you're referring to the light source's wavelengths.
My understanding of wave physics is that there aren't many effects that are only applicable to a single frequency of a wave. There's certainly a most efficient frequency of the effect, but it should work to a diminishing degree on frequencies around it. So it's a start.
Want to make it better? Use a tuneable laser (they already exist for some frequency ranges) to cover the entire spectrum.
I suspect they'll only seem to make your vision worse when you're not wearing them. In reality, they'll make your vision better while you're wearing them.
Before I had glasses, I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Then I had my vision tested at one point, and I saw amazing levels of detail. So glasses felt like a good thing.
Now, I wear my glasses almost every day. I consider the level of detail I see with them "normal." Naturally, that makes my vision while not wearing them feel poorer than usual.
So which is it? Is my vision only normal while I'm wearing glasses? Or is my vision better than normal while I'm wearing glasses? What is normal, anyway?
I wrote a script on my computers to facilitate the transfer of data from remote sources to local trees. Basically, the script accesses a specific directory common to all my media, and moves the data to a timestamp directory somewhere in my homedirectory. I originally wrote it to make working with flash drives easier, as I was frequently downloading stuff at work to use at home.
I'd have a/transfer directory on a CDROM or flash drive, and all the data in it would be moved to $HOME/transfer/$timestamp whenever I ran the script.
Why is this relevant? About a year ago, I expanded the script to access $HOME/transfer on my laptop through scp. My only grip was that the throughput was low...ssh encryption makes my laptop CPU a significant bottleneck. If I need to use the script again, I'll probably rewrite it to use rsync.
If you run Windows on your laptop, you can modify the concept to use a mounted SMB filesystem. All that remains is a script on the laptop to examine the timestamps of all your data and remove anything that's too old.
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That's all it takes, I guess. In the last 12 hours, I received 32 spam emails.
Here's a screenshot. Between my original post and this one, my spam count dropped by two. (Irony of ironies, the RSS entry at the top of the screen links to a recipe of Ginger Spam Salad. So all you're missing are the ingredients.)
Translation: RMS believes in Free Software. ESR believes in Open Source.
Drop me an email. I'll forward you the 1507 messages GMail has waiting for me to review.
I don't know what I'd do without a decent spam filter. Keep my email secret, I guess.
So, uh, where do I find the OOo2 Debian packages? Alien didn't work well on the RPMs.
The jury's still out on ATI's drivers...I had to modularize my kernel before I could load the fgrlx kernel module. I haven't been home to test it yet.
Until the machine finally died in 2003, I ran Debian on a P166 Laptop.
Sure, I ran wmaker or oroborous instead of GNOME or KDE, and lynx, or sometimes Phoenix, instead of Mozilla. But it worked fine.
(I tried Opera, but it didn't work out. I was limited to 640x480 if I wanted a decent color depth, and Opera's banner ads took up way too much screen space.)
In short, the Linux kernel runs plenty fast. You just need to pick your UI to fall within your machine's limitations.
Now comes the flipside...the student's Windows machine becomes bogged down with hundreds of pieces of spyware and adware, costing them money to get it fixed.
(Or, if they're here at GRCC, they can bring their PC to one of our free PC Clinics)
You know what I was usually told when I tried those?
"RTFM"
That's why having a mentor is important. A mentor will understand your situation a lot better than some prick on a mailing list.
I'm president of the Computer Club here at Grand Rapids Community College. We have several Linux users in the club, including myself and the Vice President. However, we don't advocate Linux to the student population.
You see, we don't have time to support it. To borrow from Star Wars: There are always two, a master, and an apprentice. And the master better have time for all the apprentice's questions.
Getting someone into Linux is a big time investment. You become there "go-to" guy, they guy they turn to when they don't RTFM, when they RTFM, but don't understand it (Try "man 7 regex"), and when they totally borked their documentation resources.
I know. Years ago, I was the apprentice. And my "master" seems to have been on a sabbatical since then.
I'm taking Calc 2 this semester. If I wasn't, I *might* have time for one or two Linux apprentices. We'll see what happens this summer.
Interestingly, I think the new tagging beta might allow something similar. Looking at the article now, I see "pseudoscience, vaporware, perpetualmotion, freeenergy, badscience" listed as the tags.
I don't have the IRC logs anymore, but I know of two or three other guys who were in the channel at the time.
You want to talk about a clunky UI? Try Thred.
You had one manipulator that took on whatever concave shape you gave it, centered on your views. Click a button, you added a brush in that shape. Click a different button, and you just subtracted that volume from whatever the manipulator overlayed.
I preferred Qoole. Then I switched to QuArK.
When id released the source code to Quake under the GPL, they also GPL'd the QuakeC code from Quake 1.01, an earlier version. Developers (not saying who...) took the initiaitive and added the GPL license to the 1.06 QuakeC, after not getting a response from id on the issue.
Legal? Probably not. AFAIK, nobody complained.
I wouldn't call completely disabling the feature an optimal solution.
Me, I'd like to limit it to 25 cached pages, and have the old ones shuffled out as new ones are shuffled in.
So there's a way to limit the number of cached pages per tab, but no way to limit the total number of cached pages, for those of us who have fifteen tabs open?
Whoops!
You didn't say which OS you were using.
If you're using Windows, I assume you checked the more advanced features offered by your video driver. If not, try going to the advanced properties for your display.
If that doesn't work, I know Adobe has a color profiler tool that comes with Photoshop. (It may come with the free Elements version; I don't know.) It may or may not help.
In any case, do what everyone else is suggesting, and check your video cable. If it's built-in to your display, you're SOL unless it's under warranty. If it's not, try dropping in a replacement cable.
Apple ][e here, too. Except the screen I used was color. And, well, the machine wasn't really mine, it was the school's. But in 2nd grade, that was my first love.
I remember turning on the computer without inserting a floppy, and having it boot up to a "]". Typing anything would get me "SYNTAX ERROR".
I don't remember why I thought it was a programming prompt. Perhaps I asked somebody. In any case, I went to the elementary school's library and checked out the books for COBOL, Pascal and BASIC, and tried each one. Obviously, it turned out to be BASIC.
I got that machine to do things that amazed the other kids. In 3rd grade, I used the LINE statement to make it look like we were traveling through a 16-color tunnel. I even started tutoring one of the kids in the Autistically Impared department in BASIC. He took it farther on his own time, and showed me a thing or two.
The first computer my family owned was a Tandy RLX 1000. (I think its still up in the attic somewhere.) We first ran DOS, then Windows 3.1. (minus protected mode, of course.)
My brother and I then got to share an 8086 equipped with a 1200bps modem that we used to dial into a local BBS. We eventually got an upgrade to a 386 that we shared. (Complete with LANTastic. Woohoo!) I got it one day, he got it the next.
Eventually, we were each given a Pentium 75MHz to play with. We all shared an ISDN internet connection. Thus began my full-time addiction to computers and the Internet.
The first game I've ever played that made me actively consider upgrading my computer.
And when the dollar numbers for that proved untenable, I started considering upgrading my grandparents' computer. (It's fast enough; it just needs non-integrated video.)
Here at GRCC, Computer Club runs a monthly event called PC Clinic where we fix machines for free. We've serviced more than 60 machines over the course of the three events we've run. We easily average more than 100 pieces of spyware on each machine we test.
/. comments later, after class. :)
Three or four machines had over 1000[sic] pieces of spyware, and one machine had over three thousand pieces, plus several variants of either Sasser or Sobig. (I forget which...that machine came in the door on our first day.)
We don't just service the machines of the elderly...we get a lot of uninformed college students and their parents, as well.
If you have any questions, drop me an email. I'd be happy to answer them. I'll respond to
I wouldn't worry about the slightly different responses to red, green and blue wavelenths. Many different people can look at the same computer monitor and see the same image. (I believe modern phosphors have a fairly narrow emission range, but I can't cite my sources. :)
:p
:)
There are other technical issues, but it's still interesting to think about.
Sorry, this is probably way off topic
Nah...this is what makes Slashdot interesting.
Writing a comment in spurts of freetime leads to a certain degree of miscommunication.
What I accidentally left out was, continued development of tunable lasers will eventually lead to laser sources tunable over the entire visible spectrum.
The other point was, given a sufficient variety of individual laser frequencies, one could approximate a full spectrum. I don't know the terms for the effects, but consider the efficiency of a band block filter. The filter is effective at its target frequency, less effective a short ways from its target, and not effective at all, farther away.
If you overlap the "less effective" ranges of the different frequencies, you get a crude simulation of a holographic lense crafted by "white" light. Tunable lasers would improve the art a great deal, of course.
What is normal, anyway?
20/20
Heh...yeah. "You see at 20 feet what others see at 20 feet."
But I was referring to normal in the philosphical sense. Without glasses, I'm 20/20. And my vision's better with them. Yet I feel like my vision is worse than normal when I don't wear glasses. See the conflict?
The eye has receptors for three colors, red green and blue. So I take it you're referring to the light source's wavelengths.
My understanding of wave physics is that there aren't many effects that are only applicable to a single frequency of a wave. There's certainly a most efficient frequency of the effect, but it should work to a diminishing degree on frequencies around it. So it's a start.
Want to make it better? Use a tuneable laser (they already exist for some frequency ranges) to cover the entire spectrum.
So what would happen if you built a hologram matrix for each of red, green and blue?
I suspect they'll only seem to make your vision worse when you're not wearing them. In reality, they'll make your vision better while you're wearing them.
Before I had glasses, I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Then I had my vision tested at one point, and I saw amazing levels of detail. So glasses felt like a good thing.
Now, I wear my glasses almost every day. I consider the level of detail I see with them "normal." Naturally, that makes my vision while not wearing them feel poorer than usual.
So which is it? Is my vision only normal while I'm wearing glasses? Or is my vision better than normal while I'm wearing glasses? What is normal, anyway?
I wrote a script on my computers to facilitate the transfer of data from remote sources to local trees. Basically, the script accesses a specific directory common to all my media, and moves the data to a timestamp directory somewhere in my homedirectory. I originally wrote it to make working with flash drives easier, as I was frequently downloading stuff at work to use at home.
/transfer directory on a CDROM or flash drive, and all the data in it would be moved to $HOME/transfer/$timestamp whenever I ran the script.
I'd have a
Why is this relevant? About a year ago, I expanded the script to access $HOME/transfer on my laptop through scp. My only grip was that the throughput was low...ssh encryption makes my laptop CPU a significant bottleneck. If I need to use the script again, I'll probably rewrite it to use rsync.
If you run Windows on your laptop, you can modify the concept to use a mounted SMB filesystem. All that remains is a script on the laptop to examine the timestamps of all your data and remove anything that's too old.