Listar has morphed into Ecartis, which is an open source ML manager. I'm on a list that has about 1500 members, and from a user standpoint, it seems to handle a lot better than, say, Majordomo.
Click on the "About" link for more details. I've not taken a look at what's under the hood, but if you want something that's largely text based, this could work.
An ultraviolent LED? I think if you get a bank of red LED's and make them into an array (such as a brake light on the back of your car), that would be very much an optic assault, but I don't think a single LED can do much damage.
Re-read my original message and pay very close attention to the part about "packets", sir. Mail be damned, if it's an ISP that is a known spammer and not willing to conform (let's say Cyber Promotions gets back into the spam game) - method of last resort is to ignore all TCP/IP and/or UDP packets from that machinery set. That means everything - as large as slashdot effect on http and as small as a ping or NTP request - goes nowhere. That includes mail. That, mon frair, is the internet death penalty.
Considering that a modem carrier sounds like noise anyway, it seems that this was only coming soon to a mall sound system near you. But does this mean that the bells I hear in Robinson's May while my wife is shopping will be carrying other data? =)
The article mentions that the Table of Contents on copy protected CD's is geared to multi-session CD's that are otherwise burned on your home PC. I wonder if this just makes it a little easier for piracy....
Remember about 15 years ago when everybody hated IBM, and now they're more or less a friend of the hacker community after a major reinvention of themselves?
I suppose it's possible that this can happen for Microsoft, with or without the flying pigs, but then I'm a bit of an optimist.
On the contrary, it is considered an important thing to have identification in California. Without it, you cannot get a passport, get a job, get a car, get a checking account (let alone write a check), etc., etc., etc. In some cases, you cannot buy alcohol or tobacco without them. In short, it's a requirement for life in general here in the golden state (or anywhere), and since it's generally a one-time expenditure, it would not violate the constitutional provisions that forbid poll taxes, or whatever forbids them. Basically, carding for electoral purposes would just be another thing you have to say "that's me" for.
Well, I know that, and you know that, and I'm sure the/. community knows it as well for the most part. But remember, as far as the press is concerned, "the public has a right to know" - they use this token excuse to request Red Cross shelter lights be turned on here in California at 2:45 AM for their 6:00 AM newscast in New York(1). I would expect that, if such an amendment were even proposed as a 28th amendment(2) to congress at large (I have already proposed this to my congresscritter), the press would take up arms against it on the grounds of perceived press restrictions. Remember, if this existed, it would be congress who forbids the counting until the wee hours of the New York morning, and therefore it's obvious that they are abridging the freedom of speech contrary to the first amendment.
Then again, your thoughts could be closer to the truth, and those who did scream bloody murder of first amendment would probably be scoffed at as conspiracy theorists.
(1) There's a true story about the Red Cross shelter bit from Northridge back almost 9 years ago behind this told to me by a shelter manager who worked the field during the disaster, but this is not the time or place to go into it.
(2) Yes, Virginia, there is a 27th constitutional amendment, passed in 1999. It states that congress can't insert a pay raise surreptitiously into a bill to be signed by the President, and are only eligible for one upon re-election.
I think the best way to reform the system would be to amend the constitution so that election results cannot be counted until sometime around 8:00 Hawaiian time. Of course, this would never fly, because the press would start screaming "First amendment!".
While Microsoft is effectively competing with Sun for the universal compatibility market (hey, if you can't get it one way, get it another, right?), Microsoft is also introducing copy-protection schemes, and is as far as I can tell dealing with.NET in such a way that it's supposed to be easier for the user to deal with than an "obscure programming language" like Java - however I think Microsoft is dealing with what made COBOL such a pain, in that it's not the syntactic structure of a language that makes it difficult or easy, it's the amount of state one is required to balance (and sugar coating a complex language only makes things worse).
When I first wound up on the internet, I was often told that sending files that were >1MB in size would cause them to bounce - and in rare cases, the entire message - UUEncoded file and all - would bounce back at you. (My first email address was a UUCP bangpath, three steps away from the actual network.) Accordingly, I learned early on that it was unwise to send large attachments unless you really, really meant it. That's what ftp was for.
Now accordingly, there are still people using dialup connections - in fact, the real problem that's causing broadband to have a hard time catching on is the affordability. As such, if you email J. Random Home User a 3 MB file, and he's on a 28.8 modem, it's going to take him 15-20 minutes of download time. That ties up what little bandwith he has, while the broadband/T1/OC3/whatever user pushes a button and watches it go out almost instantaneously. In short, it's just plain inconsiderate, but it could be owing to an error in judgement.
So what to do? Like another user suggested, make an FTP site available. It's old fashioned, but the net still uses FTP very heavily - it's a great way to move files around. It's not as "easy" as attaching a file to a message and letting it go, but it's a lot more efficient, and hasn't that what this has always been about?
The judgement states, for all intents and purposes, that it's business as usual, but they have to play by the rules. Does this mean that all this brouhaha about antitrust was for naught?!
We-ll, couldn't tell you about PoorPoint, but I knwo that most of your word processors under Linux will save in.DOC. My suggestion: tell them you didn't buy word, you did this with open source software that you got for free. If their minds can't understand thta $0
It makes me curious though - why do they want.doc or.ppt at CSUN?
At last count, one copy of the MS Office package for students was $300. For price comparison sake, WordPerfect 8 sold at Fry's for about this much back in 1998 - this was the full version.
At any rate, assuming that the price scheme still stands, $2000 worth of this in California would buy you 6 copies of the software, tax inclusive, and you'd probably have enough for dinner at a nice place with your wife.
(Note: I have not priced Microsoft software since 1998, as I've not had the need.)
This might work well on the corporate level, but clearly not at the home user level. The big thing with home users is that the computer becomes a very personal thing in many cases - while your typical home luser will run a Gateway or a Dell (DUDE!), many geeks here on slashdot have probably built their own box from the parts level (or in a few cases, for all I know, that even involved a soldering iron). But hte point here is that it is their computer - unless they're running (say) SETI or hosting their own web page off of their DSL, they probably don't want other people sharing their user space. It's sort of a possessiveness thing - they don't want to run somebody else's hardware. Besides, you go to some LAN party, what's more impressive, that big ol' honkin' tower, or something looking like a dumb terminal?
(*nix bigots and such note: Yes, I know, your defined user space on foobox is restricted unless you've chmod'ed your ~ to 777 (which is of course bombastically stupid), but do keep in mind that a typical home luser is running Windows, and accordingly sees their computer as their ersatz "user space".)
The thing is when you're dealing with executables, and I'm not sure why this is, but for some reason your windows code that compiled just fine under GCC for Windows will need tweaks to move over to (say) OS/2's or *nix's respective GCC ports, or as is the case with OS/2, require an added compatibility layer (the EMX runtime libs - what few OS/2 geeks there are will know these very well). It will likely be the case that you will have to do some significant code massaging in order to get it to work.
Mind you, it's been a time since I did cross-compiling, so AMMV these days.
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Click on the "About" link for more details. I've not taken a look at what's under the hood, but if you want something that's largely text based, this could work.
An ultraviolent LED? I think if you get a bank of red LED's and make them into an array (such as a brake light on the back of your car), that would be very much an optic assault, but I don't think a single LED can do much damage.
Somebody buys one of these and gets a horn that says "Candygram!" really loud
See this URL for more details.
Kudos to RMS for fighting the good fight, but he's already contributed significantly to Linux. I really don't think it'll go farther than that.
Considering that a modem carrier sounds like noise anyway, it seems that this was only coming soon to a mall sound system near you. But does this mean that the bells I hear in Robinson's May while my wife is shopping will be carrying other data? =)
Go to the house.gov link above the statement and contact her that way.
The article mentions that the Table of Contents on copy protected CD's is geared to multi-session CD's that are otherwise burned on your home PC. I wonder if this just makes it a little easier for piracy....
An attorney I work with has informed me that they probably have nothing to worry about. Check with your own attorneys for clarification.
ed is the default editor!
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
I suppose it's possible that this can happen for Microsoft, with or without the flying pigs, but then I'm a bit of an optimist.
On the contrary, it is considered an important thing to have identification in California. Without it, you cannot get a passport, get a job, get a car, get a checking account (let alone write a check), etc., etc., etc. In some cases, you cannot buy alcohol or tobacco without them. In short, it's a requirement for life in general here in the golden state (or anywhere), and since it's generally a one-time expenditure, it would not violate the constitutional provisions that forbid poll taxes, or whatever forbids them. Basically, carding for electoral purposes would just be another thing you have to say "that's me" for.
Then again, your thoughts could be closer to the truth, and those who did scream bloody murder of first amendment would probably be scoffed at as conspiracy theorists.
(1) There's a true story about the Red Cross shelter bit from Northridge back almost 9 years ago behind this told to me by a shelter manager who worked the field during the disaster, but this is not the time or place to go into it.
(2) Yes, Virginia, there is a 27th constitutional amendment, passed in 1999. It states that congress can't insert a pay raise surreptitiously into a bill to be signed by the President, and are only eligible for one upon re-election.
I think the best way to reform the system would be to amend the constitution so that election results cannot be counted until sometime around 8:00 Hawaiian time. Of course, this would never fly, because the press would start screaming "First amendment!".
While Microsoft is effectively competing with Sun for the universal compatibility market (hey, if you can't get it one way, get it another, right?), Microsoft is also introducing copy-protection schemes, and is as far as I can tell dealing with .NET in such a way that it's supposed to be easier for the user to deal with than an "obscure programming language" like Java - however I think Microsoft is dealing with what made COBOL such a pain, in that it's not the syntactic structure of a language that makes it difficult or easy, it's the amount of state one is required to balance (and sugar coating a complex language only makes things worse).
Are you sure you're not referring to April Fools' Day, sir? =)
Now accordingly, there are still people using dialup connections - in fact, the real problem that's causing broadband to have a hard time catching on is the affordability. As such, if you email J. Random Home User a 3 MB file, and he's on a 28.8 modem, it's going to take him 15-20 minutes of download time. That ties up what little bandwith he has, while the broadband/T1/OC3/whatever user pushes a button and watches it go out almost instantaneously. In short, it's just plain inconsiderate, but it could be owing to an error in judgement.
So what to do? Like another user suggested, make an FTP site available. It's old fashioned, but the net still uses FTP very heavily - it's a great way to move files around. It's not as "easy" as attaching a file to a message and letting it go, but it's a lot more efficient, and hasn't that what this has always been about?
The judgement states, for all intents and purposes, that it's business as usual, but they have to play by the rules. Does this mean that all this brouhaha about antitrust was for naught?!
We-ll, couldn't tell you about PoorPoint, but I knwo that most of your word processors under Linux will save in .DOC. My suggestion: tell them you didn't buy word, you did this with open source software that you got for free. If their minds can't understand thta $0
It makes me curious though - why do they want .doc or .ppt at CSUN?
At any rate, assuming that the price scheme still stands, $2000 worth of this in California would buy you 6 copies of the software, tax inclusive, and you'd probably have enough for dinner at a nice place with your wife.
(Note: I have not priced Microsoft software since 1998, as I've not had the need.)
And this would be a bad thing how?
(*nix bigots and such note: Yes, I know, your defined user space on foobox is restricted unless you've chmod'ed your ~ to 777 (which is of course bombastically stupid), but do keep in mind that a typical home luser is running Windows, and accordingly sees their computer as their ersatz "user space".)
Opera has an OS/2 version. You figure it out.
The thing is when you're dealing with executables, and I'm not sure why this is, but for some reason your windows code that compiled just fine under GCC for Windows will need tweaks to move over to (say) OS/2's or *nix's respective GCC ports, or as is the case with OS/2, require an added compatibility layer (the EMX runtime libs - what few OS/2 geeks there are will know these very well). It will likely be the case that you will have to do some significant code massaging in order to get it to work.
Mind you, it's been a time since I did cross-compiling, so AMMV these days.