How about the World of Warcraft UI mods that remove unused button frames unless you're dragging an item or skill around that you can assign to those button frames? They appear, empty, as drop targets, when you're dragging said item or skill...
I'll make mention of the same thing I did last time AdblockPlus + Filterset.G came up: you might try switching to the EasyList and EasyElement subscriptions instead. I was a staunch user of Filterset.G for a long time, and only switched to Easy* because I was reinstalling, in a hurry, and EasyList came up as an option when AdblockPlus was installed, but I'm hooked now. In my experience, and experiences of others, the Easy* lists are faster and easier to maintain, plus you don't need an extra extension to manage them.
Or you could use the EasyList and EasyElement filter subscriptions with Adblock Plus - no extra extension needed, and they're simpler and easier to maintain (and, at least subjectively, faster) than the Filterset.G is. I was a huge fan of Filterset.G for a long time, but I've been even happier with Easy*.
Meh. After they nerfed paladins and rogues, it seems like everyone was either rolling politician or terrorist. I'm not going to play any more until they've fixed the economy, opened up the Outer Space expansion, and gotten the damn flying car mounts working.
Since they run on Windows, they all require the trojan to be preinstalled.
This is a list of the mirrors from videolan.org, as seen on Google's cache (or go searching for "cache:http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-window s.html" - don't forget to remove the spaces inserted by slashdot - on google yourself), with the links edited to be (a) direct mirror download links rather than through videolan.org's redirector and (b) the version number changed from 0.8.5 to 0.8.6.
And yes, it is a damn shame that you can't trust anyone on the Internet. Good thing there are helpful people like you watching out for the uneducated masses, otherwise we might all be running...er...trojan-infested pirated copies of Windows, with pirated music on our iPods, with our megahurtz being stoled.
Amazon vs. Microsoft for One-Click operations
Lindows vs. Microsoft for Click and Run operations
Pringles vs. Microsoft for Once You Pop, You Can't Stop operations
DoublePlusBSD 0.0.0 (BIGBROTHER) #1: Wed Feb 29 04:20:00 GMT 1984
not entirely working in your best interests -- since 1984 --
Access to and use of this server is restricted to those activities expressly permitted by the system administion staff. If you're not sure if it's allowed, DON'T DO IT.
Actually, the full text of the (first part of the) rule in context reads:
You agree to NOT use the Service to: [...] Employ tactics and/or technologies to prevent the full and complete delivery or display of advertisements on LiveJournal pages. These include, but are not limited to, the following: (et cetera)
Golly gee, I'm not using the Service to employ technologies that block ads. I'm using Firefox to employ those technologies.:)
Unless it is a closed system using redudndant biometrics authenication, it CAN be hacked, I don't care how much faith you have in Apple, Linux, BSD, Windows or any other OS on the market, period.
Even if it is a closed system using redundant biometrics authentication, it CAN be hacked, I don't care how much faith you have in your closed-source redudndant (sic, with 'redudndant' "D"s) biometric-authenication (sic, and needed a 'redudndant' "T") OS on the market, period.
(Please note: These opinions are parent's, and I'm just throwing them back for humor.)
There are a number of industry best-practices that any system administrator will tell you are vital for proper security. I will not claim to provide a complete list, but the two that seem to have the most frequent effect on an OS's percieved security are:
Minimizing the number of services and processes running (preferrably via a service opt-in rather than opt-out policy)
Performing all activities as an unpriviliged user, with some method of securely and briefly authenticating to higher permissions when required
Windows has been steadily improving on the first point, but the second point has long been a problem for administrators; there is no generally-used near-transparent way for a program to request higher privileges, for instance.
Worse, many third-party (and, for that matter, some Microsoft) programs will fail silently or with obtuse errors if you run them as less-privileged users because they demand the ability to, say, write to system areas - often without warning - and require heroic gymnastics by administrators to resolve (if a resolution is even possible).
Is this issue of least-privilige being difficult to acheive being addressed in future versions of Windows? What changes can we expect to come down the line soon and in the near future?
if someone thinks that Wikipedia is bad, fine. Let them *branch* Wikipedia into a "stable branch", and they can only allow fully reviewed changes to be added, or whatever.
Right! That way, when you 'submit' a 'story', it will go into a 'queue' for an 'editor' to review, to ensure you never get any poorly researched stories, duplicate entries, opinions, et cetera. It's worked so WELL on slashdot, after all!
I think the "catch" is because someone is somehow of the opinion that only p2p networks that can be used to distribute music, movies, and programs in violation of their copyright are 'good', and that using a p2p network or p2p technology/just/ for large content distribution isn't 'good'.
I'm not sure why they're making a big deal about controlling the network, though. I don't know why it would be more of a concern to your average home user than, say, installing AOL software to begin with - something I only do in a virtual machine when I have to test something with AOL, but that plenty of people apparently do gladly on a regular basis...
Psst! Don't tell anyone, but there's a SOOPER SEKRIT WAY to get nethack maps! Here's what you do.
Take your modem. Dial up to somewhere. (The lower the speed of your modem connection, the easier this trick is to do.) Once you're connected, lift a phone on the same line and blow into it!
Repeat as needed for more of the map.
(Disclaimer: This may not actually produce a map of the nethack game you are/currently/ playing...)
It's not shielded very well
Actually, standard cat5 is unshielded ("Unshielded Twisted Pair", in fact). That's a problem for some component connections, but not for others. Likewise for 'low gauge' - cat5 cable is certainly capable of running some level of power across it. But, yeah, it's not the panacea some people think it is.
decent Monster cable
Military intelligence. GIANT SHRIMP!
To sum up: use the right tool for the job.
I think grandparent was suggesting that perhaps the 'standard' tools ought to be changed. There's some part of me that agrees - it's rather a rat's nest of cables behind my television - but another part of me is panicing and imagining Joe Sixpack trying to get warranty support after he's plugged his Newfangled High-Voltage Speaker Lead into the Newfangled Low-Voltage Video Input Port, which happen to be matching connectors, and caused his Newfangled HD-TV to turn into a pile of Old-Fashioned Scrap.
Impossible, you say? There was a fairly common barcode-reading device for PCs that plugged into an expansion card having what looked and acted for all the world like a VGA d-shell port, but happened to draw (lots of) power from the system. Plug a monitor into that "vga port", watch the magic smoke come out of the monitor.
Seems to me if you're going to be hard-nosed about the 'stack' idea, you wouldn't consider anything open-source unless it also ran on an open-source firmware (like OpenFirmware), and perhaps even open-source hardware...which doesn't describe the majority of Linux boxes out there, last I checked.
I would like to officially state that it is possible that pigs will fly, that the sun will rise in the west, and that all males between the ages of 34 and 37 inclusive will develop a small blue spot under their left arms at 4:03am tomorrow morning.
Furthermore, it is my official position that it is possible that we will have a global renewal of peace and brotherhood, starting in the middle east; that demands on oil will suddenly drop out to nothing due to the invention of cheap, clean cold fusion; that Santa Claus will descend from Heaven with Jimmy Hoffa, Elvis, and the Loch Ness Monster to tell us once and for all how we can get those tough wine stains out of our silk blouses, and that one day we will discover an honest lawyer or an unbiased slashdot story....Ok, maybe that last is a bit out of the realm of possibility.
...it's difficult to imagine anybody walking around with a cell phone, Game Boy, iPod, digital camera, PDA, and GPS.
...No, it's not. I walk around with a cellphone, an ipod, and a PDA in my pockets - with a gameboy, a miniature tape recorder, a GPS unit, a laptop, notepads and pens, a book, a little flashlight, a small toolkit, and some other miscelany in my satchel. (Not to mention a towel.) I am not alone in this, either - many or even most of my friends carry around at least a cell phone, mp3 player, PDA, and portable game system at all times.
The difference between someone who is a photographer and someone who isn't is this. Someone who isn't a photographer says "Neat! I wish I had a camera." Someone who is has a camera.
...That being said...there is no/technical/ reason why a multifunction device couldn't do a number of things/well/. Compare, say, a Gerber multitool to a Swiss Army knife - the multitool does almost all of its things well (albiet not as well as dedicated devices), while the swiss army knife does its things ALL poorly. (With the exception of the corkscrew, with performs its stated function of 'ripping a hole in your pocket' admirably.)
Slashdot Mirror
How about the World of Warcraft UI mods that remove unused button frames unless you're dragging an item or skill around that you can assign to those button frames? They appear, empty, as drop targets, when you're dragging said item or skill...
(Yeah, probably 'non-infringing material' is what was meant.)
Neil Stephenson's Zodiac.
I'll make mention of the same thing I did last time AdblockPlus + Filterset.G came up: you might try switching to the EasyList and EasyElement subscriptions instead. I was a staunch user of Filterset.G for a long time, and only switched to Easy* because I was reinstalling, in a hurry, and EasyList came up as an option when AdblockPlus was installed, but I'm hooked now. In my experience, and experiences of others, the Easy* lists are faster and easier to maintain, plus you don't need an extra extension to manage them.
Jeff Jarvis takes it apart better than I could.
It's not JavaScript. It's ECMAScript, and your JavaScript terp just happens to run it properly.
Error
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
Nothing beats a good dose of pot-kettle interaction.
Or you could use the EasyList and EasyElement filter subscriptions with Adblock Plus - no extra extension needed, and they're simpler and easier to maintain (and, at least subjectively, faster) than the Filterset.G is. I was a huge fan of Filterset.G for a long time, but I've been even happier with Easy*.
Meh. After they nerfed paladins and rogues, it seems like everyone was either rolling politician or terrorist. I'm not going to play any more until they've fixed the economy, opened up the Outer Space expansion, and gotten the damn flying car mounts working.
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... for resolving caches that never fnord give any sort of bogus or out of date new coke results!
This is a list of the mirrors from videolan.org, as seen on Google's cache (or go searching for "cache:http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-window s.html" - don't forget to remove the spaces inserted by slashdot - on google yourself), with the links edited to be (a) direct mirror download links rather than through videolan.org's redirector and (b) the version number changed from 0.8.5 to 0.8.6.
And yes, it is a damn shame that you can't trust anyone on the Internet. Good thing there are helpful people like you watching out for the uneducated masses, otherwise we might all be running...er...trojan-infested pirated copies of Windows, with pirated music on our iPods, with our megahurtz being stoled.
- VideoLAN primary mirror - France - Download (HTTP)
- VIA Centrale Reseaux, École Centrale Paris - France - Download (HTTP)
- Twente University - Netherlands - Download (HTTP)
- IRCAM - France - Download (HTTP)
- Université de Strasbourg - France - Download (FTP)
- Cr@ns, ENS Cachan - France - Download (FTP)
- Providence University - Taiwan - Download (FTP)
- Endpoint Corporation - Sweden - Download (FTP)
- Optralan - USA - Download (HTTP)
- Brno University of Technology - Czech Republic - Download (HTTP)
- Brno University of Technology - Czech Republic - Download (FTP)
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - Brazil - Download (FTP)
(These are all Windows downloads. Remove the filename and last directory from the path to explore other download options.)Amazon vs. Microsoft for One-Click operations
Lindows vs. Microsoft for Click and Run operations
Pringles vs. Microsoft for Once You Pop, You Can't Stop operations
DoublePlusBSD 0.0.0 (BIGBROTHER) #1: Wed Feb 29 04:20:00 GMT 1984
not entirely working in your best interests
-- since 1984 --
Access to and use of this server is restricted to those
activities expressly permitted by the system administion
staff. If you're not sure if it's allowed, DON'T DO IT.
Actually, the full text of the (first part of the) rule in context reads:
:)
You agree to NOT use the Service to: [...] Employ tactics and/or technologies to prevent the full and complete delivery or display of advertisements on LiveJournal pages. These include, but are not limited to, the following: (et cetera)
Golly gee, I'm not using the Service to employ technologies that block ads. I'm using Firefox to employ those technologies.
Even if it is a closed system using redundant biometrics authentication, it CAN be hacked, I don't care how much faith you have in your closed-source redudndant (sic, with 'redudndant' "D"s) biometric-authenication (sic, and needed a 'redudndant' "T") OS on the market, period.
(Please note: These opinions are parent's, and I'm just throwing them back for humor.)
There are a number of industry best-practices that any system administrator will tell you are vital for proper security. I will not claim to provide a complete list, but the two that seem to have the most frequent effect on an OS's percieved security are:
Windows has been steadily improving on the first point, but the second point has long been a problem for administrators; there is no generally-used near-transparent way for a program to request higher privileges, for instance.
Worse, many third-party (and, for that matter, some Microsoft) programs will fail silently or with obtuse errors if you run them as less-privileged users because they demand the ability to, say, write to system areas - often without warning - and require heroic gymnastics by administrators to resolve (if a resolution is even possible).
Is this issue of least-privilige being difficult to acheive being addressed in future versions of Windows? What changes can we expect to come down the line soon and in the near future?
Right! That way, when you 'submit' a 'story', it will go into a 'queue' for an 'editor' to review, to ensure you never get any poorly researched stories, duplicate entries, opinions, et cetera. It's worked so WELL on slashdot, after all!
I'm not sure why they're making a big deal about controlling the network, though. I don't know why it would be more of a concern to your average home user than, say, installing AOL software to begin with - something I only do in a virtual machine when I have to test something with AOL, but that plenty of people apparently do gladly on a regular basis...
(Two cents: YAY P2P TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION!)
Psst! Don't tell anyone, but there's a SOOPER SEKRIT WAY to get nethack maps! Here's what you do.
/currently/ playing...)
Take your modem. Dial up to somewhere. (The lower the speed of your modem connection, the easier this trick is to do.) Once you're connected, lift a phone on the same line and blow into it!
Repeat as needed for more of the map.
(Disclaimer: This may not actually produce a map of the nethack game you are
Actually, standard cat5 is unshielded ("Unshielded Twisted Pair", in fact). That's a problem for some component connections, but not for others. Likewise for 'low gauge' - cat5 cable is certainly capable of running some level of power across it. But, yeah, it's not the panacea some people think it is.
decent Monster cable
Military intelligence. GIANT SHRIMP!
To sum up: use the right tool for the job.
I think grandparent was suggesting that perhaps the 'standard' tools ought to be changed. There's some part of me that agrees - it's rather a rat's nest of cables behind my television - but another part of me is panicing and imagining Joe Sixpack trying to get warranty support after he's plugged his Newfangled High-Voltage Speaker Lead into the Newfangled Low-Voltage Video Input Port, which happen to be matching connectors, and caused his Newfangled HD-TV to turn into a pile of Old-Fashioned Scrap.
Impossible, you say? There was a fairly common barcode-reading device for PCs that plugged into an expansion card having what looked and acted for all the world like a VGA d-shell port, but happened to draw (lots of) power from the system. Plug a monitor into that "vga port", watch the magic smoke come out of the monitor.
Seems to me if you're going to be hard-nosed about the 'stack' idea, you wouldn't consider anything open-source unless it also ran on an open-source firmware (like OpenFirmware), and perhaps even open-source hardware...which doesn't describe the majority of Linux boxes out there, last I checked.
I would like to officially state that it is possible that pigs will fly, that the sun will rise in the west, and that all males between the ages of 34 and 37 inclusive will develop a small blue spot under their left arms at 4:03am tomorrow morning.
...Ok, maybe that last is a bit out of the realm of possibility.
Furthermore, it is my official position that it is possible that we will have a global renewal of peace and brotherhood, starting in the middle east; that demands on oil will suddenly drop out to nothing due to the invention of cheap, clean cold fusion; that Santa Claus will descend from Heaven with Jimmy Hoffa, Elvis, and the Loch Ness Monster to tell us once and for all how we can get those tough wine stains out of our silk blouses, and that one day we will discover an honest lawyer or an unbiased slashdot story.
The difference between someone who is a photographer and someone who isn't is this. Someone who isn't a photographer says "Neat! I wish I had a camera." Someone who is has a camera.