Yes, welcome to the brave new world of literate programming... where you need javascript enabled browser apparently just to read your own documentation.
At least the link provided requires it to get to any actual information.
I think i'll just remain an illiterate programming ludite, thanks. It's worked so far.
The parent to this was modded funny; and most of the replies backslap along with sarcastic wit. One reply, speaking seemingly seriously in reply about the landscape descriptions in the book, I can't tell if they missed the ironic tone of the original post, or the sarcasm is just too dry for my comprehension.
At any rate, I agree with that poster's seemingly serious remark. One of the many elements that made the novels so real was the absolutely fantastic description of the countryside, and the rolling, trudging, slogging, singing, always wondrous, way through it.
When I heard the LotR movies were being made I was very skeptical. With great reluctance did I view even the trailers. But the first trailer actually won me over by this very element: the way it took time to quietly show the characters simply walking through the mountain pass. I could see immediately, that whatever else its flaws may be, the director did seem to be going to try to at least in part stay true to this feeling of the reality of travel through a great land. It was beautiful.
The accompanying music, alas, did not live up to the wandering scenes. Nevertheless... I (and I know I am not alone) would welcome the lengthiest of walks with Peter Jackson through Middle Earth, having seen the glimpses of the country in the first volume.
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Perhaps the only thing worse than JonKatz is 99% of the KatzBashers... aghhh. And sigh.
There are easy to install binary packages available for FreeBSD. It's recommended you pkg_delete all your old kde2* and qt* ports first. I have had aboslutely no problems.
I happened to notice a domain I registered for a friend several years ago was about to expire. Due to various bad feelings towards Verisign (especially over them not releasing expired domain names as they should), I was hell bent on transfering this registration to another registrar before it expired in less than 10 days. The problem was that I'd created the account so long ago that I'd somehow misplaced the account info, and had forgotten the password. I don't know what email address I originally registered with; but Verisign currently had it set for some reason to "no-valid-email"... so I couldn't get the password emailed to me.
I tried everything, and finally called Verisign. They may be evil, but they have toll free phone support... such as it is.
The woman I talked to finally asked me my security question (it's one of those schemes where you make up your own question and answer when you sign up, to verify your identity). For the life of me I had no idea what security-through-obscurity paranoia I had been thinking at that time; but now my own question left me dazzled. Never mind that.
Anyhow, she told me that she would email me some forms, and I had to fill them out and fax them back. My hope of getting this resolved in 10 days dwindled. But what can I do? I assented.
The forms, however, which the nice woman said had "already been sent" before hanging up, never arrived. I on the other hand, talked to my mom about this, and told her the question: amazingly she came up with a brilliantly obvious answer which *had* to be it. So I phoned Verisign back, finally got to the point where the guy (obviously following a script) asks me the security question: i answer. Wrong. Argh. This guy kindly offers me the first letter of the answer though! Alas, I also didn't help.
He told me he would email me these forms, and I needed to fill them in and send them back. I said okay, not telling him that the previous person had already promised them and they'd not come. This guy however, asking my name, then insisted on confirming my email address (which is x @ Vex dot Net). He asks (spelling out the domain): "So your internet email address is X at S E X N E T dot com?" I snorted. Not quite.
We then went back and forth, my correcting him, and him confirming several times. He seemed set in his mind at putting a "dot com" at the end. It took several attempts before I managed to get across that it was V E X, not S E X; and just simply "dot net", not "vex.com" (though that would work), and not "vexnet.com" (took several tries before he came to understand this), and not even "vexdotnet.com"... maybe they just have really crappy headsets in their support center?
Anyhow... after all this the forms did come. Large TIF image... all the requirements... photocopied photo ID, signatures of the person who's name is in the Admin record (not me!)... i dispaired.
In utter frustration I found myself pounding away at the Verisign login page, typing any old pattern or variation on words or passwords I used to use years ago. Again and again and again. i'd already done this off and on for days... but now I had lost hope in any other way to break freak from Verisign... and... i was amazed. After what seemed like a thousand maniacal attempts i managed to brute force my own password from my mind! Got in... quickly changed the admin email. Got the ball rolling (luckily my ISP is an opensrs reseller, so we were able to help push things through a bit). All the confirmations have been made (verisigns final comfirmation email ended with a link expressing their sorrow at my departure and assuring me that it was as easy as clicking the following link to transfer the name back to their humble hands).
That's my story; it happened this week. Sorry to bore!
(Additional note: i just recieved from verisign a "Deactivation notice" warning me that this domain with them will be deactivated in 5 days if i don't click the link to renew...)
Blind fool, how dare you refer to the Goblin King as an orc. Can't you see?! May you be swarmed by Uruk-hai (and kill them all, but then have a * fall on your head).
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At least the link provided requires it to get to any actual information.
I think i'll just remain an illiterate programming ludite, thanks. It's worked so far.
At any rate, I agree with that poster's seemingly serious remark. One of the many elements that made the novels so real was the absolutely fantastic description of the countryside, and the rolling, trudging, slogging, singing, always wondrous, way through it.
When I heard the LotR movies were being made I was very skeptical. With great reluctance did I view even the trailers. But the first trailer actually won me over by this very element: the way it took time to quietly show the characters simply walking through the mountain pass. I could see immediately, that whatever else its flaws may be, the director did seem to be going to try to at least in part stay true to this feeling of the reality of travel through a great land. It was beautiful.
The accompanying music, alas, did not live up to the wandering scenes. Nevertheless... I (and I know I am not alone) would welcome the lengthiest of walks with Peter Jackson through Middle Earth, having seen the glimpses of the country in the first volume.
Perhaps the only thing worse than JonKatz is 99% of the KatzBashers... aghhh. And sigh.
Simply...
export PACKAGESITE="http://freebsd.kde.org/packages/3.0/L atest/"
Then "pkg_add -r kde3base" (and whatever other packages you want).
See freebsd.kde.org maling list for details.
I tried everything, and finally called Verisign. They may be evil, but they have toll free phone support... such as it is.
The woman I talked to finally asked me my security question (it's one of those schemes where you make up your own question and answer when you sign up, to verify your identity). For the life of me I had no idea what security-through-obscurity paranoia I had been thinking at that time; but now my own question left me dazzled. Never mind that.
Anyhow, she told me that she would email me some forms, and I had to fill them out and fax them back. My hope of getting this resolved in 10 days dwindled. But what can I do? I assented.
The forms, however, which the nice woman said had "already been sent" before hanging up, never arrived. I on the other hand, talked to my mom about this, and told her the question: amazingly she came up with a brilliantly obvious answer which *had* to be it. So I phoned Verisign back, finally got to the point where the guy (obviously following a script) asks me the security question: i answer. Wrong. Argh. This guy kindly offers me the first letter of the answer though! Alas, I also didn't help.
He told me he would email me these forms, and I needed to fill them in and send them back. I said okay, not telling him that the previous person had already promised them and they'd not come. This guy however, asking my name, then insisted on confirming my email address (which is x @ Vex dot Net). He asks (spelling out the domain): "So your internet email address is X at S E X N E T dot com?" I snorted. Not quite.
We then went back and forth, my correcting him, and him confirming several times. He seemed set in his mind at putting a "dot com" at the end. It took several attempts before I managed to get across that it was V E X, not S E X; and just simply "dot net", not "vex.com" (though that would work), and not "vexnet.com" (took several tries before he came to understand this), and not even "vexdotnet.com"... maybe they just have really crappy headsets in their support center?
Anyhow... after all this the forms did come. Large TIF image... all the requirements... photocopied photo ID, signatures of the person who's name is in the Admin record (not me!)... i dispaired.
In utter frustration I found myself pounding away at the Verisign login page, typing any old pattern or variation on words or passwords I used to use years ago. Again and again and again. i'd already done this off and on for days... but now I had lost hope in any other way to break freak from Verisign... and... i was amazed. After what seemed like a thousand maniacal attempts i managed to brute force my own password from my mind! Got in... quickly changed the admin email. Got the ball rolling (luckily my ISP is an opensrs reseller, so we were able to help push things through a bit). All the confirmations have been made (verisigns final comfirmation email ended with a link expressing their sorrow at my departure and assuring me that it was as easy as clicking the following link to transfer the name back to their humble hands).
That's my story; it happened this week. Sorry to bore!
(Additional note: i just recieved from verisign a "Deactivation notice" warning me that this domain with them will be deactivated in 5 days if i don't click the link to renew...)
Blind fool, how dare you refer to the Goblin King as an orc. Can't you see?! May you be swarmed by Uruk-hai (and kill them all, but then have a * fall on your head).
Hey, with /. trying to generate some money with big adds, maybe they should just hire some lawyers and sue all the sites with "whateverdot" type names.