Not sure why you aren't able to use 3-button emulation. I know why I can't; I use a Wacom tablet, and the pen only has the capability to click on one button or the other at any given time. So there's no chance of ChordMiddle working.
My solution was to write a small shell script that will reverse the modmap of the pointer so that the 2nd button becomes the 3rd button or vice-versa whenever it is run. Then I made that shell script a keyboard shortcut for easy access.
We geeks actually have a lot of power on the net; why don't we use it? For instance, if you're in charge of a ISP's DNS server, you could reroute the DNS for boycott-targetted domains to a protest page, so any client that uses your DNS server and wants to go to a movie studio's site will be redirected to what you want them to see.
Now, if I can just find a list of MPAA member sites I could start doing this on my own...
Ok, we all know web polls are worthless. But Deja is trying to pass itself off now as a source for hardware/software reviews, and the average user is going to look at that poll and say "Gee, Linux must not be that great after all" without even reading the comments, which are mostly positive.
Unfortunately the way the comments are posted, it's hard to refute some of the FUD that's been inserted in there because there is no opportunity to answer a specific review, because you don't know where your reply would even end up in the sequence.
Deja needs to take a hard look at their polling system and work out these kinds of issues if they want people to take it seriously. Perhaps even a form of user moderation ala Slashdot is in order here.
Oh, and if you hadn't already guessed, your localtime routines failed because it returns the month as 0..11 instead of 1..12 like you were expecting. So you need to add 1 to the month variable when you use (localtime)[5,4,3]
Date::Calc didn't like it when you asked it to calculate for November 31 1999 because it doesn't exist.
I use a Wacom PenPartner 4x5 tablet-and-cordless-pen myself, and it is MUCH better than using a mouse.
I don't see that this pen would be an improvement over a conventional pen and tablet. If anything, I see these disadvantages:
1. Since there is no tablet, this pen works in "Relative" mode only, like a mouse. So you have to keep picking up the pen and bringing it back to center to move a large distance. It's just as annoying as a mouse that way.
2. The pens you use with most tablets do not actually touch the surface of the tablet unless you are left-clicking. With this you have to keep the ball rolling, so there's more friction (minute, but still there). Plus, clicking seems more like it would just be "pressing harder than you are now", which doesn't lend itself to great accuracy.
Sendmail, to its credit, has become much more spam-aware in its latest incarnations, It will no longer allow relaying by default, among other preventative measures taken.
Unfortunately there are still plenty of people out there running ancient versions.:(
Owning your own domain name can help solve a lot of your spam problems. Assuming you have unlimited aliases wherever your domain is hosted. Whenever I go to a site that asks for my email address, I make up a new alias on the spot just for the purpose of that form. For instance, downloading RealPlayer, I would use RealPlayerDownload@mydomain.com. I can make up anything on the spot, it all comes to me at the default forwarding address.
Now, if the scumbags start sending me crap I don't want I can send that alias to/dev/null and forget about it. Chances are they're not going to send me anything useful (like bugfixes) if they have to spam their customer base to get business.
And, if by some chance they sell my email address to some spammer, I know exactly who sold it and can take action against the site that sold it.
As far as cow-orkers are concerned, there's not much you can do about that except educate them.
I don't know of any tool to directly import an Access database into MySQL but it's trivial to export the data from Access as CSV or tab-delimited and then import it with mysqlimport.
I think the hardest part of all this would be programming the serial interface.
Sendmail's config doesn't usually need to be tweaked much. It usually works fine for most configurations right out of the box. sendmail.cf can be scary, but there's a benefit in being able to control how every piece of mail is handled on your mailserver. But if you don't need that power then don't mess with sendmail.cf. You rarely have to.
Qmail is not a breeze to install and configure either. I've tried both, and I prefer Sendmail.
Unsupported on Linux by ATI before now, yes. But the All-in-Wonder does work on Linux/X11 pretty well. I'm using my All-in-Wonder right now, it works great. Even have the TV tuner working under Gatos.
I got around it by doing: export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/path/to/package export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/package then run it with: /path/to/package/apprunner
where/path/to/ is the directory where you untarred the release.
Also make sure you don't have an old ~/.mozilla directory hanging around, it seems to cause problems too.
Ok, so I've converted all my website's GIFs to PNG with gif2png. Unfortunately the transparency doesn't convert, so I had to go through and use Gimp to make them transparent again. Only it doesn't work. In Netscape the transporent are looks white, and in IE it looks gray. Is this because I'm doing something wrong in Gimp? Or can the current browsers not handle transparency in PNG yet?
Three people talking at once is too disconcerting to listen to. It would be better if just two of you did the show. It would be even better if one of you were a chick:)
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When it was called Contact.
Not sure why you aren't able to use 3-button emulation. I know why I can't; I use a Wacom tablet, and the pen only has the capability to click on one button or the other at any given time. So there's no chance of ChordMiddle working.
My solution was to write a small shell script that will reverse the modmap of the pointer so that the 2nd button becomes the 3rd button or vice-versa whenever it is run. Then I made that shell script a keyboard shortcut for easy access.
So, if I were a porn site operator, all I'd need to do is disallow access to User-agent: "Mudcrawler" and then kids can surf my site freely.
Do you get the feeling that even the programmers know that their software is pretty much useless?
We geeks actually have a lot of power on the net; why don't we use it? For instance, if you're in charge of a ISP's DNS server, you could reroute the DNS for boycott-targetted domains to a protest page, so any client that uses your DNS server and wants to go to a movie studio's site will be redirected to what you want them to see.
Now, if I can just find a list of MPAA member sites I could start doing this on my own...
Ok, we all know web polls are worthless. But Deja is trying to pass itself off now as a source for hardware/software reviews, and the average user is going to look at that poll and say "Gee, Linux must not be that great after all" without even reading the comments, which are mostly positive.
Unfortunately the way the comments are posted, it's hard to refute some of the FUD that's been inserted in there because there is no opportunity to answer a specific review, because you don't know where your reply would even end up in the sequence.
Deja needs to take a hard look at their polling system and work out these kinds of issues if they want people to take it seriously. Perhaps even a form of user moderation ala Slashdot is in order here.
Oh, and if you hadn't already guessed, your localtime routines failed because it returns the month as 0..11 instead of 1..12 like you were expecting. So you need to add 1 to the month variable when you use (localtime)[5,4,3]
Date::Calc didn't like it when you asked it to calculate for November 31 1999 because it doesn't exist.
Try this instead:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Date::Calc qw(Add_Delta_Days Today);
($y,$m,$d) = Today(); #get today's date
print "$y $m $d\n";
($y2,$m2,$d2) = Add_Delta_Days($y,$m,$d,-1); #get yesterday's date
print "$y2 $m2 $d2\n";
Hmm, if I were trying to release a browser for the Linux market, I'd be sure PNG was at least partially supported in the beta version.
I use a Wacom PenPartner 4x5 tablet-and-cordless-pen myself, and it is MUCH better than using a mouse.
I don't see that this pen would be an improvement over a conventional pen and tablet. If anything, I see these disadvantages:
1. Since there is no tablet, this pen works in "Relative" mode only, like a mouse. So you have to keep picking up the pen and bringing it back to center to move a large distance. It's just as annoying as a mouse that way.
2. The pens you use with most tablets do not actually touch the surface of the tablet unless you are left-clicking. With this you have to keep the ball rolling, so there's more friction (minute, but still there). Plus, clicking seems more like it would just be "pressing harder than you are now", which doesn't lend itself to great accuracy.
It's a neat idea, but I'll keep my PenPartner.
(Now if only there was support for it in gpm...)
You don't outright break the functionality of the product, you use more subversive techniques.
Making the product crash frequently for unexplained reasons is a better method, eroding the reputation of the product.
Of course, Microsoft can't even keep their own products from doing this, so they wouldn't gain anything by this anyway.
This Lotus Notes glitch is all unintentional on Micro$oft's part I'm sure.
Sendmail, to its credit, has become much more spam-aware in its latest incarnations, It will no longer allow relaying by default, among other preventative measures taken.
:(
Unfortunately there are still plenty of people out there running ancient versions.
Owning your own domain name can help solve a lot of your spam problems. Assuming you have unlimited aliases wherever your domain is hosted. Whenever I go to a site that asks for my email address, I make up a new alias on the spot just for the purpose of that form. For instance, downloading RealPlayer, I would use RealPlayerDownload@mydomain.com. I can make up anything on the spot, it all comes to me at the default forwarding address.
/dev/null and forget about it. Chances are they're not going to send me anything useful (like bugfixes) if they have to spam their customer base to get business.
Now, if the scumbags start sending me crap I don't want I can send that alias to
And, if by some chance they sell my email address to some spammer, I know exactly who sold it and
can take action against the site that sold it.
As far as cow-orkers are concerned, there's not much you can do about that except educate them.
I don't know of any tool to directly import an Access database into MySQL but it's trivial to
export the data from Access as CSV or tab-delimited and then import it with mysqlimport.
I think the hardest part of all this would be programming the serial interface.
Put this in your crontab:
/usr/bin/perl -pi -e 's/^\.doubleclick\.net.*\n//' ~/.netscape/cookies
Problem solved.
Oh well, I'm still going to leave up my mirror of the Echelon-encoding CGI for all you conspiracy theorists out there.... :)
Sendmail's config doesn't usually need to be tweaked much. It usually works fine for most configurations right out of the box. sendmail.cf can be scary, but there's a benefit in being able to control how every piece of mail is handled
on your mailserver. But if you don't need that power then don't mess with sendmail.cf. You rarely have to.
Qmail is not a breeze to install and configure either. I've tried both, and I prefer Sendmail.
Update:
I've increased the message size limit on my mirror of the echelon-encoding script
to 4096 bytes so it should be a little more useful.
http://www.httptech.com/echelon/
I've mirrored Ben's echelon-armor CGI script at http://www.httptech.com/echelon/
Unsupported on Linux by ATI before now, yes. But the All-in-Wonder does work on Linux/X11 pretty
well. I'm using my All-in-Wonder right now, it works great. Even have the TV tuner working under Gatos.
Chalk it up to GUI whore programmers I guess...
It did the same for me on Mandrake 6.0
/path/to/ is the directory where you untarred the release.
I got around it by doing:
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/path/to/package
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/package
then run it with:
/path/to/package/apprunner
where
Also make sure you don't have an old
~/.mozilla directory hanging around, it seems
to cause problems too.
YMMV as always.
Didn't they sue AT&T over this and lose?
Ok, so I've converted all my website's GIFs to PNG with gif2png. Unfortunately the transparency doesn't convert, so I had to go through and use Gimp to make them transparent again. Only it doesn't work. In Netscape the transporent are looks white, and in IE it looks gray. Is this because I'm doing something wrong in Gimp? Or can the current browsers not handle transparency in PNG yet?
You can find information there on getting just about any application working with masquerading.
Three people talking at once is too disconcerting to listen to. It would be better if just two of :)
you did the show. It would be even better if one of you were a chick