The AP is reporting that so called "Spam King" Sanford Wallace has agreed to stop spamming...
...and in related news, the RIAA promises not to sue you for any P2P activity if you contact them with your name, address, contact details and an apology.
Primarily because with the exeption of Earth, there is very little geological activity in the solar system. Mercury, Venus, Pluto and most of the solid moons in the solar system were found to be totally geoloically inactive.
The major exeptions to this are Io and Europa. The major difference here is that the geological activity on these moons is thought to be the result of their proximity to Jupiter and Neptune respectively with the resulting gravitiational "squeeze" the cause.
Someone definately have too much time on their hands...:)
Which indicated you are in australia, in the melbourne region.
Entirely correct.
Google search provided that the city has a chain of toll highways that is called citylink (more specifically the Mitchton-Frankston expressway), which was recently deprivitized, giving ownership (or partial ownership to macquarie's bank, and something referred to as connecteast, which is probably a consortium, which the bank is the head off...I could be wrong), which seemed to be set to making a huge profit off the road.
CityLink is indeed privatised and they are indeed making a fortune off it as their tollway provides a very quick (usually - when lanes are not closed) way around the CBD of the city.
However, the Mitcham-Frankston Tollway has not yet been built - ConnectEast is the name of the consortium recently awarded the contract to build and operate the freeway. Transurban - the owners of CityLink - are a separate company who were outbid to build the new toll road.
BTW. Photo of citylink looked cool. The one with the circular beam 'roof'.
That's the "sound tunnel" designed to reduce the noise of the road (which is elevated at that point) reaching the Ministry of Housing apartments 100m or so away from the tollway.
My guess is the citylink would be the only one ripping people off in the region, as one is expected to do when the deprivatization took place within past 7 years or so.
Full marks for resourcefulness. If you lived in Australia, you would have incurred a penalty for your reference to a tollway not yet built. (see the South East Integrated Transport Authority web site for more information on this road, which has it's own controvosy surrounding it) however the two would indeed look very similar according to Google...
I don't know why this surprises anyone. Micro$oft is a company like any other who for all intents and purposes has a monopoly.
It's no different to the toll road operator where I live that puts their tolls up by the maximum permitted year after year without any explanation at all - the same one who quite frequently refuses to explain their actions for unusual lane closures (usually during rush hour) with no readily apparent reason, who only pays refunds for their mistakes when the media gets hold of the story. Quite simply, if you want to get through my city quickly and easily, you have no choice.
(free "well done" to whomever identifies the city I live in and the toll operator I'm referring to)
Likewise. However all jokes aside, it's still a pest because I always do an emerge world -UD any time I install Gentoo. Had I downloaded the 2004.3 livecd, many/most of these upgrades would be included in the stage 3 tarball
What makes it worse still is that this was done on a PIII-667.
Maybe I'm the one living under a rock, but I've been using Thunderbird since 0.2 on my local IMAP server and whenever I've had trouble, it's been my IMAP server at fault.
Seconded, thirded, fourthed and fifthed... I've been using dyndns.org for several years and have almost never had a problem with them - any time I have had a problem, it's because my auto-updater stopped working without me knowing.
Added to this, nowadays dyndns.org is running so many value-added services, they really can become your one stop shop for DNS services, although they will not let you delegate subdomains. All subdomains (if you set it that way) get diverted to the same IP address.
"And finally, after several hours of turmoil and despair, we have installed and tested our Linux device. Its far from perfect - we cannot readily work with digital TV broadcasts, for example."
It's for exactly these reasons that people use Windows and Macs... this sort of thing is far above the average Joe's understanding I'm afraid, and it really shouldn't be stuff they have to know as it's not user friendly, confusing and assumes far too much prior knowledge.
However, as they pointed out in the article ("Opting for a different distribution that supports the PVR card natively would have been a better idea, but we have already gone this far...") they didn't pick the right distro. Had they chosen KnoppMyth, it would have worked damn near out of the box.
There are good reasons for having many distros. This is one of them.
Too right I did. It's a fourfold increase in average traffic and anything up to a 30-fold increase in peak traffic. I'm also only looking at the initial blast of traffic (hence the use of the word "instant") which is not as high.
IE won't support it until 2012, and even then, it'll only support half the features.
(sarcasm)You think it'll be that quick, do you?(/sarcasm)
All jokes aside, I wouldn't be so sure of that. If FireFox and Mozilla make as much inroads into the browser market as some people think it will then Microsoft will either have to pull their finger out and keep IE up-to-date and standards-compliant or drop out of the market - something I seriously doubt will happen.
FireFox is already a long way there. One department at work got so sick of the pop-up infested site they needed to use for some of their work that they demanded something be done about it. Our MIS deparment said nothing could be done until I suggested (and proofed) FireFox. Now it's a standard browser for that department and is being looked at for the rest of the organisation as well.
The very fact that three of the six Police Academy movies made it in to the top 50 of the worst movies on IMDB speaks volumes in and of itself.
This is one series of movies that any trademark could easily be defeated. In order for something to be considered "prior art", it needs to be in some way related to art in the first place.
I'm using a RAID-0 array for my PVR system to store recorded programs - it's the perfect application for it. Long sequential reads/writes are a given in any video processing application.
As for fault tolerance, when you're recording 40-60Gb of programs per week (before transcoding those you intend to keep to a more efficent format) if something dies, I'm not that concerned at missing out on a few episodes here and there.
Back in school we used to have to write the whole program out on paper first, that was a f-ing joke. I have never written code with pen and paper; I may write ideas & conditional statements, but never code.
I'm not a programmer per se - I write reports as part of my job. No, I never write the entire SQL query out in full on paper, but when trying to figure out linking a half dozen tables together on some weird method (i.e. more than just join x on x.id = z.id), I'll diagram my queries first and jot down joins.
Makes coming up with the right query first time (rather than having to debug, which is always harder) one hell of a lot easier.
Of course, Austrailia has many fewer total over the air TV stations than the USA does thanks in part to its smaller geographic size, so this service is much more practical there than it is here.
Spoken like someone who has no idea where Australia is or has the slightest idea how big it is.
Australia is geographically the same size as the United States, even though it has 1/10th of the population. The fewer number of television stations (3 commercial, 2 government-owned and in some places 1 community) is driven in part by govenment regulation and in part by economics. A country of ~20 million people cannot support the same number of commercial stations as a country of ~200 million.
Pay TV only arrived in Australia 7 years ago and has only been accessible to most for the past 3-4 years. The ratings for Pay TV are pretty poor, since the commercial free-to-air stations have first pick at a lot of things - sport in particular - to protect people from "having" to pay for TV.
...for those of us who read Slashdot, the question becomes "why?" I've had a PVR at home for the past four or five months, ever since I built my MythTV system with KnoppMyth.
With some old leftover hardware and a $150 TV card, it was ridiculously easy to set up, even though a little Linux experience did help. Sure, the commercial detection is "programmed" and prone to miss commercials or (on occasion) think that the program itself is the commercial, but when it's free and includes most, if not all of what these PVR boxes will, having that "up-to-the-second" information isn't really all that vital.
Yes, it does serve a purpose - for some people...
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Whilst I rarely use the CAPSLOCK key at home, I use it regularly at work. A number of databases I work with at work have some information (such as exhange codes) in capitals and since I'm a sticker for proper capitalisation, whenever I'm entering these things enmass, I'll have the CAPSLOCK key on.
Just because a significant number of people who read/. operate in environments where proper capitalisation is essential (frequently in lower case) doesn't mean the key is useless for the rest of us.
Although I occasionally find the CAPSLOCK key to be a pest, there is no justification for removing its use for anyone else who DOES find it useful. (and no, I'm not referring to people who yell in email)
...I don't. Even in Australia, there are signs all over every petrol* station warning you to turn off your mobile phones. In some cases they go so far as to tell you not to use your remote car locking.
Unfortunately, it's paranoia of getting sued that drives this. Companies all over the place do things they know are ridiculous to cover themselves in the event that someone does a really stupid thing that they should know better. The company I work for has just annoyed over a thousand customers by insisting that advertising "lightboxes" are moved inside as we have been informed that there is a very slight chance that if someone touches it when it is very wet that they may get a minor electrical shock.
Of course companies need to act responsibly when they determine that a danger exists. However, the issue of mobile phones at petrol pumps is similar in many ways to the infamous donoteat stuff you find all over the place. Design something idiot proof, and they'll design a better idiot. People manage to hurt and main themselves doing all kinds of really stupid things.
* Petrol = Gasoline for Americans who don't what I'm on about
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It works on any good Gentoo box nearby!
I guess Gentoo isn't 2038 ready. Must be time to panic.
The major exeptions to this are Io and Europa. The major difference here is that the geological activity on these moons is thought to be the result of their proximity to Jupiter and Neptune respectively with the resulting gravitiational "squeeze" the cause.
Entirely correct.
CityLink is indeed privatised and they are indeed making a fortune off it as their tollway provides a very quick (usually - when lanes are not closed) way around the CBD of the city.
However, the Mitcham-Frankston Tollway has not yet been built - ConnectEast is the name of the consortium recently awarded the contract to build and operate the freeway. Transurban - the owners of CityLink - are a separate company who were outbid to build the new toll road.
That's the "sound tunnel" designed to reduce the noise of the road (which is elevated at that point) reaching the Ministry of Housing apartments 100m or so away from the tollway.
Full marks for resourcefulness. If you lived in Australia, you would have incurred a penalty for your reference to a tollway not yet built. (see the South East Integrated Transport Authority web site for more information on this road, which has it's own controvosy surrounding it) however the two would indeed look very similar according to Google...
It's no different to the toll road operator where I live that puts their tolls up by the maximum permitted year after year without any explanation at all - the same one who quite frequently refuses to explain their actions for unusual lane closures (usually during rush hour) with no readily apparent reason, who only pays refunds for their mistakes when the media gets hold of the story. Quite simply, if you want to get through my city quickly and easily, you have no choice.
(free "well done" to whomever identifies the city I live in and the toll operator I'm referring to)
What makes it worse still is that this was done on a PIII-667.
Added to this, nowadays dyndns.org is running so many value-added services, they really can become your one stop shop for DNS services, although they will not let you delegate subdomains. All subdomains (if you set it that way) get diverted to the same IP address.
There are good reasons for having many distros. This is one of them.
Too right I did. It's a fourfold increase in average traffic and anything up to a 30-fold increase in peak traffic. I'm also only looking at the initial blast of traffic (hence the use of the word "instant") which is not as high.
(sarcasm)You think it'll be that quick, do you?(/sarcasm)
All jokes aside, I wouldn't be so sure of that. If FireFox and Mozilla make as much inroads into the browser market as some people think it will then Microsoft will either have to pull their finger out and keep IE up-to-date and standards-compliant or drop out of the market - something I seriously doubt will happen.
FireFox is already a long way there. One department at work got so sick of the pop-up infested site they needed to use for some of their work that they demanded something be done about it. Our MIS deparment said nothing could be done until I suggested (and proofed) FireFox. Now it's a standard browser for that department and is being looked at for the rest of the organisation as well.
The very fact that three of the six Police Academy movies made it in to the top 50 of the worst movies on IMDB speaks volumes in and of itself. This is one series of movies that any trademark could easily be defeated. In order for something to be considered "prior art", it needs to be in some way related to art in the first place.
I'm not a programmer per se - I write reports as part of my job. No, I never write the entire SQL query out in full on paper, but when trying to figure out linking a half dozen tables together on some weird method (i.e. more than just join x on x.id = z.id), I'll diagram my queries first and jot down joins.
Makes coming up with the right query first time (rather than having to debug, which is always harder) one hell of a lot easier.
Australia is geographically the same size as the United States, even though it has 1/10th of the population. The fewer number of television stations (3 commercial, 2 government-owned and in some places 1 community) is driven in part by govenment regulation and in part by economics. A country of ~20 million people cannot support the same number of commercial stations as a country of ~200 million.
Pay TV only arrived in Australia 7 years ago and has only been accessible to most for the past 3-4 years. The ratings for Pay TV are pretty poor, since the commercial free-to-air stations have first pick at a lot of things - sport in particular - to protect people from "having" to pay for TV.
With some old leftover hardware and a $150 TV card, it was ridiculously easy to set up, even though a little Linux experience did help. Sure, the commercial detection is "programmed" and prone to miss commercials or (on occasion) think that the program itself is the commercial, but when it's free and includes most, if not all of what these PVR boxes will, having that "up-to-the-second" information isn't really all that vital.
Whilst I rarely use the CAPSLOCK key at home, I use it regularly at work. A number of databases I work with at work have some information (such as exhange codes) in capitals and since I'm a sticker for proper capitalisation, whenever I'm entering these things enmass, I'll have the CAPSLOCK key on.
/. operate in environments where proper capitalisation is essential (frequently in lower case) doesn't mean the key is useless for the rest of us.
Just because a significant number of people who read
Although I occasionally find the CAPSLOCK key to be a pest, there is no justification for removing its use for anyone else who DOES find it useful. (and no, I'm not referring to people who yell in email)
Unfortunately, it's paranoia of getting sued that drives this. Companies all over the place do things they know are ridiculous to cover themselves in the event that someone does a really stupid thing that they should know better. The company I work for has just annoyed over a thousand customers by insisting that advertising "lightboxes" are moved inside as we have been informed that there is a very slight chance that if someone touches it when it is very wet that they may get a minor electrical shock.
Of course companies need to act responsibly when they determine that a danger exists. However, the issue of mobile phones at petrol pumps is similar in many ways to the infamous do not eat stuff you find all over the place. Design something idiot proof, and they'll design a better idiot. People manage to hurt and main themselves doing all kinds of really stupid things.
* Petrol = Gasoline for Americans who don't what I'm on about