I just read the F. article (honest!) and at the end they admit that "it's possible to collect patterns from their e-mails and block certain logarithms".
That's a fairly well-considered post, and I have no quarel with any of your points; but by the 1450s the order and content of the bible had been pretty much nailed down by the various movers and shakers within the church.
If I recall correctly, it does not vary significantly (except in language) from what is published today, and there still seem to be a number of people (which does not include myself) to whom it is still perfectly relevant as a user's manual to Life, even in bowdlerised versions.
For those interested in Gutenberg, Blake Morrison has written a great novel, The Justification of Johann Gutenberg, published by Chatto & Windus and available in paperback. The work is mostly fiction, as details of Gutenberg's life are limited mostly to scanty sources such as legal records. It's a great read, though.
These "tricks" aren't bad for dealing with the soi-disant "content" of the mail. However, I'm probably not alone in finding that the spam I get tends to originate from a relatively small number of netblocks, and thus filtering on the basis of originating IP is a very useful tool.
I suppose that's essentially what the RBLs do, but I'm not so keen on the false-positives for which the RBLs are notorious.
Indeed, that's not funny. Since most of us use free email addresses to secure our privacy, this is unwelcome news. However, there's an awful lot of free email providers out there, and I don't see how the Australian cops are likely to have the resources to deal with them all.
Permit me to divert this thread from becoming an incipient flame war...:-)
History should tell us that attempts on the part of the French Government to regulate their language have always failed. Hence le camping, l'autostop and so on. They might not care for it, but that's a part of the evolution of language. Further, if a language ceases to evolve, it dies.
The English language, for instance, is now a fairly heady mixture of Anglo-Saxon with Norman and French, along with admixtures of heaps of other languages such as Chinese, Sanskrit and so on. There's nothing unhealthy about that.
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Have a quick google for Dropline Gnome then. You'll get by far the slickest and most current distribution of Gnome there is, specifically for Slackware, and it comes with Moz 1.4.
Though you'll find Pat keeps everything very much current all by himself; take a look at slackware-current.
Well, it still runs pretty well on all of my machines. I have had a few forays into playing with RedHat, Debian and even (!) Mandrake, but Slackware is still the simplest to tweak for the machine's purposes, and thus by far my favourite of the distros I've tried.
Gnumeric now supports ALL excel functions and then some.
Except when it comes to plotting. I don't have Winbloze on either of my home computers, but it would be nice if OO or Gnumeric came up to scratch with statistics plotting.
Seems to me that the only major performance failure of OpenOrifice is the time it takes to load in the first place. Everything else is pretty much the same as any other application. I love this project (with reservations) but this load-time issue has been dragging on for way too long.
But I happen to be one of (probably) a number of people who have had the misfortune of being in charge of a yacht on a trans-atlantic voyage which very nearly came seriously unstuck as a result of hitting a submerged container.
In our case, the impact was a glancing blow, and although it did make a hole in the hull, we were able to patch it sufficiently to keep us afloat. If we had hit the thing squarely, though, the boat would definitely have sunk. Nasty.
It's always bothered me, ever since, every time I look at those container ships in harbour; there is nothing more than gravity holding those damn containers down.
A genius might also be able to spell "genius" even after marriage...
Correct. However, it seems to me that the story has it ass-about. Creative genius does not occur solely in sciences. I can think of any number of people whose creative talent was undiminished by marriage and children. Johann Sebastian Bach, for a start...
I don't know about the grandparent poster was doing, but I have run into similar things from time to time. Like 2.4.20 -> 2.4.21 as follows:
make mrproper make oldconfig... (I like to do my patching after I've got a kernel that works) make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install
I don't think there's anything abstruse about that, but 2.4.20 works fine, while 2.4.21 panicked on boot-up (unable to mount root fs). Haven't had time to go back and work out why this happened, but it really shouldn't.
names that begin with "gn" of "K" is a kind of flag waving that shows which desktop application framework was used
It appears to be so with KDE, but not Gnome so much: e.g. Evolution, Sound-Juicer, File-roller, Drivel, Nautilus etc etc...
In any case, most distros tend to install most of the more popular desktops by default; and unless you really have a tiny HDD, there's really not much point in overriding that unless you have very strong feelings about one or another. For instance, although I'm not personally a big fan of KDE, I still very occasionally use Konqueror to check my html or even more rarely when a page won't load in Mozilla.
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It is harder and harder to find a feature that I want to use that isn't there.
I can't remember who wrote the statistics add-ins for Excel (and I don't have a Windoze computer handy to find out) but that is one thing that would be very useful to me. Plus there is a range of plotting functions that are simply not there in Gnumeric, and I've been struggling along with Grace, which has a bit of a slow learning curve.. For all that, though, Gnumeric's a great product.
You could just let everyone catch every virus going for a few months, then offer them a real computer that doesn't get viruses. I wonder how many people would get the message.
There are several manufacturers making noise-cancelling headphones exploiting this principle, and you can often get them quite cheaply at electronics shops, Or if you want to pay more for something about as good, I think Bose make them too.
Easy. I just blackhole (almost) everything from a US-based IP. Saves a lot of time (95% of all my spam), since I live in Australia and I have a small whitelist for US senders.
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To date, my stats indicate that 98.3% of the spam I get originates from the US.
I wonder if they tried blocking log 0 :-)
If I recall correctly, it does not vary significantly (except in language) from what is published today, and there still seem to be a number of people (which does not include myself) to whom it is still perfectly relevant as a user's manual to Life, even in bowdlerised versions.
For those interested in Gutenberg, Blake Morrison has written a great novel, The Justification of Johann Gutenberg, published by Chatto & Windus and available in paperback. The work is mostly fiction, as details of Gutenberg's life are limited mostly to scanty sources such as legal records. It's a great read, though.
I suppose that's essentially what the RBLs do, but I'm not so keen on the false-positives for which the RBLs are notorious.
What a dumbass thing to say. As if it isn't possible to use any winbloze, mac, beos or [OS of your choice] box to distribute spam. Duh...
Indeed, that's not funny. Since most of us use free email addresses to secure our privacy, this is unwelcome news. However, there's an awful lot of free email providers out there, and I don't see how the Australian cops are likely to have the resources to deal with them all.
History should tell us that attempts on the part of the French Government to regulate their language have always failed. Hence le camping, l'autostop and so on. They might not care for it, but that's a part of the evolution of language. Further, if a language ceases to evolve, it dies.
The English language, for instance, is now a fairly heady mixture of Anglo-Saxon with Norman and French, along with admixtures of heaps of other languages such as Chinese, Sanskrit and so on. There's nothing unhealthy about that.
Though you'll find Pat keeps everything very much current all by himself; take a look at slackware-current.
Well, it still runs pretty well on all of my machines. I have had a few forays into playing with RedHat, Debian and even (!) Mandrake, but Slackware is still the simplest to tweak for the machine's purposes, and thus by far my favourite of the distros I've tried.
Except when it comes to plotting. I don't have Winbloze on either of my home computers, but it would be nice if OO or Gnumeric came up to scratch with statistics plotting.
Seems to me that the only major performance failure of OpenOrifice is the time it takes to load in the first place. Everything else is pretty much the same as any other application. I love this project (with reservations) but this load-time issue has been dragging on for way too long.
Not the Pentagon? the CIA? Taliban? Al Quaeda? Nope. the RIAA. Yessir.
Conclusion: it just goes to show... :-)
In our case, the impact was a glancing blow, and although it did make a hole in the hull, we were able to patch it sufficiently to keep us afloat. If we had hit the thing squarely, though, the boat would definitely have sunk. Nasty.
It's always bothered me, ever since, every time I look at those container ships in harbour; there is nothing more than gravity holding those damn containers down.
It dies, indeed, but that doesn't matter if you know if you know to put it back :-)
Correct. However, it seems to me that the story has it ass-about. Creative genius does not occur solely in sciences. I can think of any number of people whose creative talent was undiminished by marriage and children. Johann Sebastian Bach, for a start...
Remember, I said I used "make oldconfig". The whole point of that is that it shouldn't just "forget" what I built in before.
make mrproper
make oldconfig... (I like to do my patching after I've got a kernel that works)
make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install
I don't think there's anything abstruse about that, but 2.4.20 works fine, while 2.4.21 panicked on boot-up (unable to mount root fs). Haven't had time to go back and work out why this happened, but it really shouldn't.
It appears to be so with KDE, but not Gnome so much: e.g. Evolution, Sound-Juicer, File-roller, Drivel, Nautilus etc etc...
In any case, most distros tend to install most of the more popular desktops by default; and unless you really have a tiny HDD, there's really not much point in overriding that unless you have very strong feelings about one or another. For instance, although I'm not personally a big fan of KDE, I still very occasionally use Konqueror to check my html or even more rarely when a page won't load in Mozilla.
I can't remember who wrote the statistics add-ins for Excel (and I don't have a Windoze computer handy to find out) but that is one thing that would be very useful to me. Plus there is a range of plotting functions that are simply not there in Gnumeric, and I've been struggling along with Grace, which has a bit of a slow learning curve.. For all that, though, Gnumeric's a great product.
Yes, of course I can.
And the fact that you're posting in this forum at all should indicate that you are (or should be) just as aware as I am as to what those OSs are.
You could just let everyone catch every virus going for a few months, then offer them a real computer that doesn't get viruses. I wonder how many people would get the message.
There are several manufacturers making noise-cancelling headphones exploiting this principle, and you can often get them quite cheaply at electronics shops, Or if you want to pay more for something about as good, I think Bose make them too.
Easy. I just blackhole (almost) everything from a US-based IP. Saves a lot of time (95% of all my spam), since I live in Australia and I have a small whitelist for US senders.
Do you not have number portability in Finland? I was under the impression most European countries did, but maybe I am misinformed...