From what I've seen, they're really tough on "referal fraud," that is, when you try to sign up under yourself to get your referals done quicker. Everyone on this board who's done it seems to have been caught, and even a few people who just had similar names as their referals (i.e. Sr/Jr). Anyway, the best way to do this is sign up for ancestry.com or AOL, then cancel the service during the free trial. For ancestry.com, you have to call an 800#, and they may make you call twice if you aren't insistant, but it's not hard. It does seem like a pyramid scheme, though, so beware (even though it seems like the site has been up a couple of month). Once you get your five referals to complete their offers, they check your info, which takes a week or so, then they let you order your ipod. You can either get a 15 gb, which ships in a week or so, or a mini, which takes an extra month. Be careful, though, because I have heard a personal report from someone claming that right after they signed up, someone used their credit card number to buy some expensive plane tickets, but I think the two are unrelated. The link to the forum I posted above has a "conga line" going for people who to refer each other and try to organize the process a bit. I've been siting at two completed for about a week, though, so I'll be a link whore, too.
You have your hacks too narrowly defined. The definition of hack commonly used at MIT includes computer hacking (as opposed to cracking), roof and tunnel hacking (getting into inacessible places), and performance hacking (probably the best definition is a wide-scale prank). And it takes a bit longer than you'd think to scatter hundreds of hand made and hand painted gnomes, in various rooms, without anyone noticing (the cluster that most of the gnomes were in is the largest on campus, with probably 100 workstations, and there is always someone in there).
It may "just work" for Apple, but if microsoft does it too then it's dilution of message. Anyone who's seen an apple add will probably discount it instantly, unless Microsoft finds some really good stories. Copying a proven design works for products, and sometimes in advertising, but not for competing products.
You may find remote windowing "grievous" and bloaty, but I know many people like myself who use this feature everyday. You have to remember that X is often actually run on servers (without heads, even). Sure, it might make more sense to have the remote server in a different package... oh, wait, it is. If you take responsibility for your own pacakage management it's not hard to slim X down (or any other *nix program, for that matter).
Yeah, I'm sick of the debate, and maybe it is getting a bit old. However, until the naysayers realize that they are wrong, articles like this one will continue to be newsworthy and will continue to aggitate the majority of the audience here at/. The fact that people do things because of a misinformed view will always get people riled up, espeically when the actors are integral parts in an industry.
"A single summons was issued, with a $50 penalty, though each butterfly could have been subject to a $50 fine" (emphasis mine)
what?! good lord! if any individual had done this, say with something as simple as a "hello, my name is:" sticker with an email address, they would be fined thousands. sure, it's not as permanent as ibm's spraypaint, but it's not like microsoft can't afford the fines.
svg icon support is not new (to nautilus anyway). i have been using the scalable gorilla nautilus theme for months. (available at sunshineinabag.com, along with other svg themes). very nice icons, and a great metatheme too.
hey, i know, there are only 50 messages whining about how this spoiled the episode, let me post one too, because it obviously hurt me more than everyone else. good god people, if there is alread a message in the thread that said what you were going to say, you don't need to repeat it. wankers.
that plan would suffer from the fact that many stores (best buy, circuit city, wal-mart et al.) won't accept opened cds for return. so not only will you:
1.) be seen buying a celine dion cd, but also you will
2.) fuxX0r up your computer
3.) be seen returning a celine dion cd
4.) be laughed at by the 18 year old customer service rep
5.) be stuck with a celine dion cd (until you find some female relative to give it to)
there's no way to win except not buying it
i just upgraded myself; the answer is most deffinetly no. gnome and even enlightenment are now dead from the upgrade. oh well, i'll just wait for ximian to come out with a new version and get myself re-aquanted with kde.
mandrake "broke" ximian gnome with 8.1, and the ximian folks took a while to release a version for 8.1. does anyone who has had the good fortune to install 8.2 know if ximian is still operable in the new mandrake?
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to add further (absolute) proof of prof. haldeman's place of employment:
the search result for his name in the course catalog. confirmed with the paper version. you'll notice that none of these are spring classes, so maybe he teaches somewhere else in the spring? or maybe thats the time for his cross country bicycle rides?
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From what I've seen, they're really tough on "referal fraud," that is, when you try to sign up under yourself to get your referals done quicker. Everyone on this board who's done it seems to have been caught, and even a few people who just had similar names as their referals (i.e. Sr/Jr).
Anyway, the best way to do this is sign up for ancestry.com or AOL, then cancel the service during the free trial. For ancestry.com, you have to call an 800#, and they may make you call twice if you aren't insistant, but it's not hard. It does seem like a pyramid scheme, though, so beware (even though it seems like the site has been up a couple of month).
Once you get your five referals to complete their offers, they check your info, which takes a week or so, then they let you order your ipod. You can either get a 15 gb, which ships in a week or so, or a mini, which takes an extra month. Be careful, though, because I have heard a personal report from someone claming that right after they signed up, someone used their credit card number to buy some expensive plane tickets, but I think the two are unrelated.
The link to the forum I posted above has a "conga line" going for people who to refer each other and try to organize the process a bit. I've been siting at two completed for about a week, though, so I'll be a link whore, too.
You have your hacks too narrowly defined. The definition of hack commonly used at MIT includes computer hacking (as opposed to cracking), roof and tunnel hacking (getting into inacessible places), and performance hacking (probably the best definition is a wide-scale prank). And it takes a bit longer than you'd think to scatter hundreds of hand made and hand painted gnomes, in various rooms, without anyone noticing (the cluster that most of the gnomes were in is the largest on campus, with probably 100 workstations, and there is always someone in there).
It may "just work" for Apple, but if microsoft does it too then it's dilution of message. Anyone who's seen an apple add will probably discount it instantly, unless Microsoft finds some really good stories. Copying a proven design works for products, and sometimes in advertising, but not for competing products.
You may find remote windowing "grievous" and bloaty, but I know many people like myself who use this feature everyday. You have to remember that X is often actually run on servers (without heads, even). Sure, it might make more sense to have the remote server in a different package... oh, wait, it is. If you take responsibility for your own pacakage management it's not hard to slim X down (or any other *nix program, for that matter).
Yeah, I'm sick of the debate, and maybe it is getting a bit old. However, until the naysayers realize that they are wrong, articles like this one will continue to be newsworthy and will continue to aggitate the majority of the audience here at /. The fact that people do things because of a misinformed view will always get people riled up, espeically when the actors are integral parts in an industry.
"A single summons was issued, with a $50 penalty, though each butterfly could have been subject to a $50 fine" (emphasis mine)
what?! good lord! if any individual had done this, say with something as simple as a "hello, my name is:" sticker with an email address, they would be fined thousands. sure, it's not as permanent as ibm's spraypaint, but it's not like microsoft can't afford the fines.
svg icon support is not new (to nautilus anyway). i have been using the scalable gorilla nautilus theme for months. (available at sunshineinabag.com, along with other svg themes). very nice icons, and a great metatheme too.
hey, i know, there are only 50 messages whining about how this spoiled the episode, let me post one too, because it obviously hurt me more than everyone else. good god people, if there is alread a message in the thread that said what you were going to say, you don't need to repeat it. wankers.
that plan would suffer from the fact that many stores (best buy, circuit city, wal-mart et al.) won't accept opened cds for return. so not only will you: 1.) be seen buying a celine dion cd, but also you will 2.) fuxX0r up your computer 3.) be seen returning a celine dion cd 4.) be laughed at by the 18 year old customer service rep 5.) be stuck with a celine dion cd (until you find some female relative to give it to) there's no way to win except not buying it
i just upgraded myself; the answer is most deffinetly no. gnome and even enlightenment are now dead from the upgrade. oh well, i'll just wait for ximian to come out with a new version and get myself re-aquanted with kde.
mandrake "broke" ximian gnome with 8.1, and the ximian folks took a while to release a version for 8.1. does anyone who has had the good fortune to install 8.2 know if ximian is still operable in the new mandrake?
to add further (absolute) proof of prof. haldeman's place of employment: the search result for his name in the course catalog. confirmed with the paper version. you'll notice that none of these are spring classes, so maybe he teaches somewhere else in the spring? or maybe thats the time for his cross country bicycle rides?