For instance the original poster could take up carpentry and make his own furniture.
The manual skills are not hard to develop (I have some experience of this, since I make lutes), and there are plenty of good patterns freely available if he doesn't have a clear eye for design.
This would also give him something to focus on other than his frailties.
They're effectively breaking the law, but the phone company can't do anything about it. It's not like they can just cut the police off for not paying the phone bill.
Actually, they probably could. The fact that they are content to just roll over rather than stand up for themselves is a bit sad, when you think about it.
It would be interesting if a phone company were to slug the police with a massive bill, payable in advance, on request for a wiretap. After all, nobody else receives any service until they've paid for it.
Even on a 56k dialup line, the 8Mb download (firefox linux binary) wouldn't take that long to download. Roughly 20 minutes IIRC. I don't know about you others, but that's a small price to pay for security.
So what's the big deal? Oh, and BTW mozilla.org have some fairly kickass servers, well able to stand up to a slashdotting.
Even so, I fail to see why software patents are any more of a danger to people operating on a Linux platform than on a Microsoft one. The reverse, in fact.
Sounds to me like this alderman is either (a) dumb enough to believe Microsoft FUD or (b) has been paid or bribed in other ways to muddy the waters.
Great, now we have yet another form of weapon of mass destruction. Terrorists could cook up a batch of prions and dump it in a water or food supply, thus killing off lots of people a short period of time later.
Probably quicker to just grab a few mice and chuck them into the hopper at a McDonald's factory. After all, it's not as if anyone would notice the difference in taste...:-)
Prion diseases (to oversimplify a bit) are caused by incorrectly folded proteins that induce "correctly" folded proteins to assume the prion form. They are typically communicated by ingestion of meat (or meat products) from infected animals.
Bubonic plague is a bacterial infection by Yersinia pestis.
if you're running Slackware 9 on a Pentium III 2600MHz with 512MB of RAM, you are so five minutes ago.
No. You are 15 months ago. Slackware 9 was succeeded by 9.1 on 2003-09-26 and 10 on 2004-06-23.
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Indeed: I've been a zsh convert for a while now (since I'm a slowish and lazy typer), and zsh is just the best shell environment by far.
As far as scripting is concerned, however, there's not a great deal of difference between zsh and bash, since the former is quite compatible with the latter.
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100% compatibility doesn't happen anyway. If I take a Word doc I've produced on any particular machine, the likelihood is very low that it will look the same on another winbloze machine.
Personally, I prefer to create my documents with OpenOffice (or sometimes LyX), and if I have to make them available online to other users, I export them to pdf.
Agreed, this dumbing-down of the interface is (as far as I am concerned) a fault, but not only in Gnome. KDE does it too. Trouble is, if they make the UI so simple that a total moron can use it, then only a total moron will want to.
every time a new version comes out, I try to use it, and every time I go back to KDE.
Heh... I do the same with KDE. Much as I am inclined to agree that a few kew apps appear to work better, I find the gaudiness of that interface and that stupid naming theme just make me angry, and I go back to Gnome.
Anybody remember that Max Headroom episode? Centralised systems can lead to all sorts of scary situations. Seems to me that the most benefit that can be accrued from this type of system accrues to those in a position to abuse it.
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If he's only used SillyHat or any of those rpm-based distributions he may well have had problems.
They tend not to arise with proper distributions.:-) I'll let you decide for yourself what is a proper distribution (mine's Slackware, but YMMV).
Newbie-friendliness seems silly in the context of Linux distros. If your grandma buys a computer, she, like most people will get one with Windows pre-installed on it, and has probably never heard of Linux.
Consciously installing Linux presupposes that you have at least some idea what you are doing, and why, so you will presumably have some idea where to look to get things set up properly.
Setting up Windows can also be a bear of a job if/when things don't work out properly the first time, which is why it is usual for people to get the dealer to do it.
is that it changes so much of your system, including glibc
No it doesn't. There was an issue a while back where the native Slack iconv.so library was replaced with libiconv by Dropline, but that was resolved months ago.
It does, however, replace X11 with one optimised for i686 (as opposed to the native i486 code). None of this, however, raises any problem with building your own stuff. I compile stuff all the time, and DLG has never caused any problems I didn't have with Pat's generic version of Gnome.
As for pam, I guess if you don't like it, you don't have to use it; but DLG uses it simply because it improves the overall desktop experience.
That, Mr. Toadpipe, is probably the only sensible comment I've read on this sorry topic this evening.
Some of his purported comments seem pretty screwy to most of us, but his chess play was brilliant. It all seems a bit sad to me, and I hope the authorities look on his case with a sensible the perspective on his "indiscretion".
In the current climate, I don't hold out much hope for that, however.
I was going to moderate on this topic, but since a couple of people have mentioned the business of installers, I'll forego that and set the issue straight (or at least definitively crooked).
Firefox for linux (with gtk+ and xft) comes with an installer. Just extract the tarball and run firefox-installer in the extracted directory and it will behave essentially the same as any winbloze installer. If you want an rpm, I'm sure google will find one if you're that desperate.
Doubleclick doesn't have to be a problem. What I do is symlink my cookies.txt to/dev/null and allow everybody to set whatever cookies they want. They only stick for the current session, then disappear when you close your browser. On a winbloze box you can simulate this (with mozilla/firefox/netscape) by simply creating a cookies.txt directory in the appropriate location.
Most of us don't really need persistent cookies anyway, since there are probably more sites that abuse the system than otherwise.
Of course, if you're running IE you're on your own, and deserve to be.:-D
Just train your filter to can anything with "delivery failure" or "failed transaction" in the header.
The likelihood of non-junk mail falling into this category these days is virtually zilch by comparison with the typical offerings from the various spam-hausen.
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The manual skills are not hard to develop (I have some experience of this, since I make lutes), and there are plenty of good patterns freely available if he doesn't have a clear eye for design.
This would also give him something to focus on other than his frailties.
Actually, they probably could. The fact that they are content to just roll over rather than stand up for themselves is a bit sad, when you think about it.
It would be interesting if a phone company were to slug the police with a massive bill, payable in advance, on request for a wiretap. After all, nobody else receives any service until they've paid for it.
So what's the big deal? Oh, and BTW mozilla.org have some fairly kickass servers, well able to stand up to a slashdotting.
Sounds to me like this alderman is either (a) dumb enough to believe Microsoft FUD or (b) has been paid or bribed in other ways to muddy the waters.
No. Americans call maths math, while those of us in the English-speaking world call it mathematics or maths.
Something like, for instance, an attack calculated to "shock and awe", perhaps?
G.W. Shrub fits most of the definitions of "terrorist" quite handily.
Probably quicker to just grab a few mice and chuck them into the hopper at a McDonald's factory. After all, it's not as if anyone would notice the difference in taste... :-)
Yes.
Prion diseases (to oversimplify a bit) are caused by incorrectly folded proteins that induce "correctly" folded proteins to assume the prion form. They are typically communicated by ingestion of meat (or meat products) from infected animals.
Bubonic plague is a bacterial infection by Yersinia pestis.
No. You are 15 months ago. Slackware 9 was succeeded by 9.1 on 2003-09-26 and 10 on 2004-06-23.
As far as scripting is concerned, however, there's not a great deal of difference between zsh and bash, since the former is quite compatible with the latter.
There is. Try zenity.
I can't think of a more dumbass idea than installing a DVD viewer in a dashboard. Has anyone done this in other countries?
Personally, I prefer to create my documents with OpenOffice (or sometimes LyX), and if I have to make them available online to other users, I export them to pdf.
Sssshhh. Don't put ideas into their heads, you fool...
Agreed, this dumbing-down of the interface is (as far as I am concerned) a fault, but not only in Gnome. KDE does it too. Trouble is, if they make the UI so simple that a total moron can use it, then only a total moron will want to.
Heh... I do the same with KDE. Much as I am inclined to agree that a few kew apps appear to work better, I find the gaudiness of that interface and that stupid naming theme just make me angry, and I go back to Gnome.
Anybody remember that Max Headroom episode? Centralised systems can lead to all sorts of scary situations. Seems to me that the most benefit that can be accrued from this type of system accrues to those in a position to abuse it.
They tend not to arise with proper distributions. :-) I'll let you decide for yourself what is a proper distribution (mine's Slackware, but YMMV).
cd /var/adm/packages /mnt/cdrom/slackware/g/*tgz
removepkg *dl
installpkg
... and you're in business. Oops, nearly forgot, you'll also have to installpkg *tgz from the "X" directory of disk #1. Not exactly hard.
Consciously installing Linux presupposes that you have at least some idea what you are doing, and why, so you will presumably have some idea where to look to get things set up properly.
Setting up Windows can also be a bear of a job if/when things don't work out properly the first time, which is why it is usual for people to get the dealer to do it.
No it doesn't. There was an issue a while back where the native Slack iconv.so library was replaced with libiconv by Dropline, but that was resolved months ago.
It does, however, replace X11 with one optimised for i686 (as opposed to the native i486 code). None of this, however, raises any problem with building your own stuff. I compile stuff all the time, and DLG has never caused any problems I didn't have with Pat's generic version of Gnome.
As for pam, I guess if you don't like it, you don't have to use it; but DLG uses it simply because it improves the overall desktop experience.
Some of his purported comments seem pretty screwy to most of us, but his chess play was brilliant. It all seems a bit sad to me, and I hope the authorities look on his case with a sensible the perspective on his "indiscretion".
In the current climate, I don't hold out much hope for that, however.
Firefox for linux (with gtk+ and xft) comes with an installer. Just extract the tarball and run firefox-installer in the extracted directory and it will behave essentially the same as any winbloze installer. If you want an rpm, I'm sure google will find one if you're that desperate.
Most of us don't really need persistent cookies anyway, since there are probably more sites that abuse the system than otherwise.
Of course, if you're running IE you're on your own, and deserve to be. :-D
The likelihood of non-junk mail falling into this category these days is virtually zilch by comparison with the typical offerings from the various spam-hausen.