Well, I was *finally* getting used to the download manager and then with Firefox 0.9 they changed the hotkey from Ctrl+E to Ctrl+Y. How the hell am I supposed to do that with my left (non-mouse) hand. I have a split keyboard so it's basically impossible.
I really wish they would change that back. Makes no sense to have it Ctrl+Y.
I did something along the same line as that, except I set my build root to/usr/local. I wrecked (uninstalled:) a few apps that I installed from tarballs instead of RPM's.
One of the programs in/usr/local was gaim. I actually ran gaim for almost a month after deleting most of my/usr/local (including/usr/local/bin). I finally restarted my computer a month later and when I went to start up gaim I got a "command not found". Took me a while to figure out what happened:)
I could do with a lot more, but if I had to pick from channels currently available it would just be one or two.
The only channel I really watch is Discovery and sometimes the Outdoor Life Network.
I think the real reason we don't have 500 channels is because of a lack of content. Sure, it's kinda nice that some program are aired several times a week (in case you miss it), but when Discovery is repeating something that I've already seen, there's nothing else on television worth watching. There's no other channels with interesting educational content.
TLC used to be okay, but now it has gone to shit. I find the History channel really boring--even when there's something interesting on, the narrarators manage to make it really boring.
Sorry, that was supposed to be a joke:) Guess I should've made it more obvious.
The reason for the joke is because Firebird SQL seems to be mentioned a lot more simply because of the name conflict with Mozilla Firebird. Before that I've barely even heard of the project, now it seems to always be lumped in with Postrgres and MySQL.
Hmm.. this sounds an awful like a hoax I read about on Wired today, it was linked from slashdot.
Well, okay, I didn't actually read the article, but I did read the news post about the article.
Well, okay, I never read all of that either, but I did read enough to to feel I am fully capable of making a decent reply. Anyway, here's the link to the article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.07/hoax.html
There was a small thread about this on the last article about GMail.
Google has the resources to make their own instant messenging network. Google using jabber for an IM network would be great. It would be a lot easier to convert somebody to "Google Messenger" than "Jabber".
Later, ISP's (if they wanted) could easily add their own servers in addition to Google's network. This second part is probably less likely, but we'd already be using a standard IM protocol, so I could really care less if Google is the only one with servers.
Anyway, it would be great if Google came out with it's own instant message program using Jabber. Google is the "cool thing" right now and it would be a lot easier to convince my friends to use "google messenger" than some thing called "Jabber". I wouldn't have to tell them it's open and free and therefore better. I can just tell them "google is cool, use it".
Yep. I sent an invitation to my sister (hotmail) this weekend and it worked fine for her (was in her Inbox). I've also sent out about 2-3 more invitations over the last couple weeks to hotmail addresses and they all got them.
By the way, I'm not sure what my sister's junk mail settings are set to.
It's funny, but if you actually think about it, it's really true.
Warez groups using it to encode movies would also get it spread around, although it wouldn't be very good to have Theora labelled as "the warez video codec".
Actually, shred doesn't remove the file after it's done shredding, unless you ask it to (-u). Also, shred writes twenty five "layers" of data and you can even increase this amount if you want (-n).
Not sure if this actually works (don't want to try it out now:), but can't one do shred/dev/hdX to "wipe" a hard drive? I'm sure this would make it quite safe to give away, although I still wouldn't recommend corporations doing so.
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Well, I was *finally* getting used to the download manager and then with Firefox 0.9 they changed the hotkey from Ctrl+E to Ctrl+Y. How the hell am I supposed to do that with my left (non-mouse) hand. I have a split keyboard so it's basically impossible.
I really wish they would change that back. Makes no sense to have it Ctrl+Y.
Yes, it is "th". And quit calling me Shirley.
I did something along the same line as that, except I set my build root to /usr/local. I wrecked (uninstalled :) a few apps that I installed from tarballs instead of RPM's.
One of the programs in /usr/local was gaim. I actually ran gaim for almost a month after deleting most of my /usr/local (including /usr/local/bin). I finally restarted my computer a month later and when I went to start up gaim I got a "command not found". Took me a while to figure out what happened :)
Only Coca-Cola knows the real coke formula. The spying device would be spotted in no time (first sip). :)
Well, AdAware is pretty kick ass: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/purchase/business/
I could do with a lot more, but if I had to pick from channels currently available it would just be one or two.
The only channel I really watch is Discovery and sometimes the Outdoor Life Network.
I think the real reason we don't have 500 channels is because of a lack of content. Sure, it's kinda nice that some program are aired several times a week (in case you miss it), but when Discovery is repeating something that I've already seen, there's nothing else on television worth watching. There's no other channels with interesting educational content.
TLC used to be okay, but now it has gone to shit. I find the History channel really boring--even when there's something interesting on, the narrarators manage to make it really boring.
And the USPS can read your snail mail, too!
That's only funny in stories about Real Pl ...BUFFERING...
Sorry, that was supposed to be a joke :) Guess I should've made it more obvious.
The reason for the joke is because Firebird SQL seems to be mentioned a lot more simply because of the name conflict with Mozilla Firebird. Before that I've barely even heard of the project, now it seems to always be lumped in with Postrgres and MySQL.
Isn't Firebird SQL named after the browser?
This is by far the stupidest thing I've seen all day, but somehow I can't stop laughing.
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Wow, have I got news for you:
Hmm.. this sounds an awful like a hoax I read about on Wired today, it was linked from slashdot.
Well, okay, I didn't actually read the article, but I did read the news post about the article.
Well, okay, I never read all of that either, but I did read enough to to feel I am fully capable of making a decent reply. Anyway, here's the link to the article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.07/hoax.html
There was a small thread about this on the last article about GMail.
Google has the resources to make their own instant messenging network. Google using jabber for an IM network would be great. It would be a lot easier to convert somebody to "Google Messenger" than "Jabber".
Later, ISP's (if they wanted) could easily add their own servers in addition to Google's network. This second part is probably less likely, but we'd already be using a standard IM protocol, so I could really care less if Google is the only one with servers.
Damn, beat me to it.
Anyway, it would be great if Google came out with it's own instant message program using Jabber. Google is the "cool thing" right now and it would be a lot easier to convince my friends to use "google messenger" than some thing called "Jabber". I wouldn't have to tell them it's open and free and therefore better. I can just tell them "google is cool, use it".
Yes, but the US is basically writing there laws anyway :) We're all set now.
Not only is that an unimportant question, it's also a stupid one. If they *had* to go the free software way, Speex would be the codec to use for VoIP.
Ah, but speed doesn't have direction. :)
Yep. I sent an invitation to my sister (hotmail) this weekend and it worked fine for her (was in her Inbox). I've also sent out about 2-3 more invitations over the last couple weeks to hotmail addresses and they all got them.
By the way, I'm not sure what my sister's junk mail settings are set to.
It's funny, but if you actually think about it, it's really true.
Warez groups using it to encode movies would also get it spread around, although it wouldn't be very good to have Theora labelled as "the warez video codec".
What's "warsailing"?
Actually, shred doesn't remove the file after it's done shredding, unless you ask it to (-u). Also, shred writes twenty five "layers" of data and you can even increase this amount if you want (-n).
Not sure if this actually works (don't want to try it out now :), but can't one do shred /dev/hdX to "wipe" a hard drive? I'm sure this would make it quite safe to give away, although I still wouldn't recommend corporations doing so.
Ha, yeah right. I'd like to see someone who's played with hard drive magnets and not *at least* pinched themselves really good.
They're probably having a trouble getting a patent on it.