I worked in ISP support for years and USENET was dying well before child porn was a nail in it's coffin. Probably has something to do with message boards with much friendlier interfaces, or that ISPs never went out of their way to try to explain what usenet is./p
More probable it was the unwashed masses of those who think that internet == www and if you can't see it in a browser it doesn't exist. Like others, give me a half decent nntp-reader over the most "advanced" webinterface any day.. Guess I'm getting old..;)
Besides, linux doesn't only include k3b.. linux includes every cd/dvd burning piece of software they can lay there hands on. Same for wordprocessors, spreadsheets, webbrowsers.. The day that MS includes Opera and Firefox, Wordperfect and the like as equal level replacements for it's own software I'm sure people stop whining about unfair competition..
Sure, like they change operating systems after the usual BSOD or they vote for a diverent party (in those countries where it actually makes a difference) after the goverment screws up.. Call me old and cynical, but I have little hope..
You don't.. You just read the "printer friendly" page with less commercials and all the text together.. Until the day that all those sites finally figure out that "css-thing" for printing, it works quite nicely more often than not..
Well, for WP I have a developers kit laying around here with the complete and well explained structure of the WP file format.. It may be a little outdated, but unless they changed the format completely I think it would still get you started for some 90% as it was quite a flexible and scallable structure.. An no, this was not reverse-enginered, just bought from WP.
I don't agree with MS's business practices, nor its monopolization in software, but children are not best served by denying them the skills they're most likely to use in work.
By the time these children have to "work" whatever version of software they learned their skills on will be outdated. Schools should learn general skills, not specific software or versions.
Nah, it's just MS realizing that if they support public standards, their browser can be replaces by every other standards compliant browser around instead of the current situation where every MS shop locks itself in by using ms only features..
No it's not. It should check if I own windows. Not if I own or use an other product. As the article writes, under IE an activeX checks this. Firefox get a program. Perfectly logical would be for this program to ask the user to type his productcode or to insert a legal MS Windows CD. Here and now it assumes that if you run wine you don't own or have windows. And that's not good.
Don't know about the rest of the world, but around here (the Netherlands) office was installed for free on every new computer. Well, we didn't hear about that one before uh? Of course the fact that WP's windows version sucked big time didn't help either. Especially since windows, yes you guessed it, was free with every new pc..;-)
Ach yes.. I should have thought off that.. Well, running of a CD should be possible too, but in that case it still needs to make a profile directory in the HD. A bootfloppy with a ramdisk could work, but then you can as well go for Knoppix.. In short the grant-parent is screwed.. to bad..
> On the other hand, show me an > explorer.exe/KDE/whatever way to say "change all > the filenames in this dir to lowercase". Or even > "rename all these files from *.foo to *.bar". Krename? http://www.krename.net/Screenshots.11.0.html
The moment someone on the web cannot link to copyrighted material anymore (which is as stupid as not being allowed to have a referencelist in the back of a book) there's going to be very little left to link to.
Guess she had to learn the job somewhere..;-) But imho (and I've heared that a lot those years so I know I'm not alone here) the whole first impression was stinking. Even something simple as turning on the lining up of icons would already have helped.. A half decent wallpaper. Just some default settings. Oh well.. water to the sea and an other piece of history.
Slashdot Mirror
This is slashdot.. not reading the article is the norm..
An to make this suggestion a bit more useful: http://sarien.net/
I worked in ISP support for years and USENET was dying well before child porn was a nail in it's coffin. Probably has something to do with message boards with much friendlier interfaces, or that ISPs never went out of their way to try to explain what usenet is./p
More probable it was the unwashed masses of those who think that internet == www and if you can't see it in a browser it doesn't exist. Like others, give me a half decent nntp-reader over the most "advanced" webinterface any day.. Guess I'm getting old..;)
Maybe this s a good moment to bring up the two articles posted in "a list apart" today. One explaining the idea, the other giving a thoughful comment on the concept. Something missing here up till now.. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype and http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fromswitchestotargets
Slashdot, stuff that mattered..
Besides, linux doesn't only include k3b.. linux includes every cd/dvd burning piece of software they can lay there hands on. Same for wordprocessors, spreadsheets, webbrowsers..
The day that MS includes Opera and Firefox, Wordperfect and the like as equal level replacements for it's own software I'm sure people stop whining about unfair competition..
Sure, like they change operating systems after the usual BSOD or they vote for a diverent party (in those countries where it actually makes a difference) after the goverment screws up..
Call me old and cynical, but I have little hope..
You don't.. You just read the "printer friendly" page with less commercials and all the text together.. Until the day that all those sites finally figure out that "css-thing" for printing, it works quite nicely more often than not..
Well, for WP I have a developers kit laying around here with the complete and well explained structure of the WP file format.. It may be a little outdated, but unless they changed the format completely I think it would still get you started for some 90% as it was quite a flexible and scallable structure..
An no, this was not reverse-enginered, just bought from WP.
Or windows "look don't touch"..
Yeah, where it used to be "news for nerds" it's now more "last chance for lazy readers". They're definitly no longer ON the news as they used to be..
I don't agree with MS's business practices, nor its monopolization in software, but children are not best served by denying them the skills they're most likely to use in work.
By the time these children have to "work" whatever version of software they learned their skills on will be outdated. Schools should learn general skills, not specific software or versions.
Nah, it's just MS realizing that if they support public standards, their browser can be replaces by every other standards compliant browser around instead of the current situation where every MS shop locks itself in by using ms only features..
Fear uncertainty and doubt? Maybe a bit over-confident, but one can hardly call the original remark fud..
And as for the original remark,the lack of activex solves a nice amount of the problems that bug IE. As does the lack of over-integration into the OS.
Ok, I can go with that too.. Nevertheless I think we can agree that the usage of wine shouldn't be of any consideration.
No it's not. It should check if I own windows. Not if I own or use an other product. As the article writes, under IE an activeX checks this. Firefox get a program. Perfectly logical would be for this program to ask the user to type his productcode or to insert a legal MS Windows CD.
Here and now it assumes that if you run wine you don't own or have windows. And that's not good.
Don't know about the rest of the world, but around here (the Netherlands) office was installed for free on every new computer. Well, we didn't hear about that one before uh? Of course the fact that WP's windows version sucked big time didn't help either. Especially since windows, yes you guessed it, was free with every new pc..;-)
Ach yes.. I should have thought off that.. Well, running of a CD should be possible too, but in that case it still needs to make a profile directory in the HD. A bootfloppy with a ramdisk could work, but then you can as well go for Knoppix.. In short the grant-parent is screwed.. to bad..
But then again, maybe mozilla saves an other day as in:5 908
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=
You can run things from an usb stick. No installation required..
> On the other hand, show me an
> explorer.exe/KDE/whatever way to say "change all
> the filenames in this dir to lowercase". Or even
> "rename all these files from *.foo to *.bar".
Krename? http://www.krename.net/Screenshots.11.0.html
For the KDE part that is..
A minolta scan dual III, VUEscan and the gimp. Together I'm quite happy with the results. But check for yourself:= 99248. The first 5 are done with this combination.
http://www.photosig.com/go/users/viewportfolio?id
Probably next to the
-1 Full of it
An other one I would appriciate..
So? Almost everything on the web is copyrighted.
The moment someone on the web cannot link to copyrighted material anymore (which is as stupid as not being allowed to have a referencelist in the back of a book) there's going to be very little left to link to.
Yeah, only after the switch my numpad refuses to do anything else but numbers and xkb isn't exacly the clearest documented part of X..
Guess she had to learn the job somewhere.. ;-) But imho (and I've heared that a lot those years so I know I'm not alone here) the whole first impression was stinking. Even something simple as turning on the lining up of icons would already have helped.. A half decent wallpaper. Just some default settings. Oh well.. water to the sea and an other piece of history.