"Peppercorn rental" was originally an English expression, and it means exactly what it sounds like. Assuming, of course, that you know what a peppercorn looks like:-)
When I first started out in computing (in the heady days when the Earth was newly-cooled and everybody was using core memory) I worked for a couple of years with a Burroughs B3700.
When the business finally replaced the machine with a Honeywell DPS7, I was really impressed with the amount of silver cable the salvage guys pulled out of the false floor. It filled a large-ish truck.
I'll always think of that as one of those opportunities missed...:-)
Dunno about Ximian any more since I no longer run any RH boxes, but Dropline Gnome is now my distribution of choice (for Slackware). It tends to be kept very current, and is very stable.
You have a point - several, in fact. While I have always loathed and despised the KDE interface (yes, moderators, I know that functionally it works quite well, but I am not a fan of ugly icons and dumb naming themes), and have been a big fan of Gnome since about 1998, there are aspects of Gnome's interface which also tend to be ugly-by-default on most distros.
Like, for instance that silly panel at the top of the screen which can be non-trivial to remove.
Maybe it does, but I, for one, would find it moderately hard to run Mozilla without an X11 session. Maybe an extension to represent the page as ASCII-art?:-)
I had wondered about that. Since the first thing I turn off is the sidebar (I hate it with a passion), I guess it would never have occurred to me to customise it.
Just in case you don't know, if you have a scroll-mouse you can use it to interactively increase/decrease font-size in Mozilla by holding a user-selected modifier-key while rolling the wheel. I presume the function is there in Firebird as well...
Point taken, but why does every discussion on Mozilla/Phoenix/Firebird always get 40% of its postings from Opera zealots?
I have no particular beef against Opera except from brief contact with the "free" version a few years ago when, for all its speed etc, the adspace seemed to take up more room on the screen than the webpage content.
man emacs if you don't believe me. I've found it quite handy from time to time when I've had to ssh to a host from a dumb terminal after a failed X11 session. While I mostly use Gnome nowadays, it is perfectly possible to use emacs as a complete desktop environment.
Ok, I'm a man, and I'm getting oldish (40) but it seems to me that the most brilliant of all the mathematics students (undergrad and post-) at "my" university are mostly female. And not necessarily under 40, either.
You've got a bad build then. Mozilla has had good anti-aliasing for a long time. Is SUSE using the binary that comes direct from mozilla.org? (I.e. with no xft enabled?) I'm using one that came with Dropline Gnome (for Slackware) and font rendering is just gorgeous. There was a time when I used to think font rendering was much better handled under winbloze, but nowadays whenever I have to work at one of those machines I always find text hard to read. Just goes to show how quickly we get spoilt.
One of my favourite lies is that my name is Sir Mudge Pinkerton-Bottomley, I live at 42 Bonkalot Street, Didjabringabeer in Western Australia, and that my phone number is +61 8 9221 1111.
I like to entertain fantasies about all that junk snail-mail collecting at the post-office. But I would love to be a fly on the wall to hear a telemarketer call that phone number and explain to the Western Australian Police why they think I might want a a turbocharged teflon-coated dildo:-).
This doesn't help you if you have not been informed that someone is collecting information about your affairs.
In the article they are talking about the possibilities for re-identification of individuals from public-domain data. I can think of several types of organisation who would profit from that type of information, and none of them would be welcome in my home.
I don't know that simple safeguards would, in themselves, be useful. Any Slashdot readers remember that Max Headroom episode about credit fraud? Dated, I know, but as they said, only 20 minutes into the future...
My point is that if comprehensive data is being collected about you by any organisation with which you have had no contact, and without informing you, you are running into a really dangerous situation which is only too easily abused.
A simple case would be crimes like burglary (income, address, occupation==times of absence). Then you can get into really ugly cases like stalking, rape and murder. And I'm not even going to get started on the possibilities for identity theft, etc.
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And he did it anonymously... I really don't want to add Anonymous Coward to my "Fans" list :-)
In short, yes, the water does fall. On both sides, that is. I hate to say RTFA, but... :-)
I'm not quite dead, you insensitive clod :-)
Can't I take out copyright against my postcode? Maybe send all those junk-mailers invoices for royalties?
OK, only kidding... :-)
Looks like they were right, with two exceptions :-)
"Peppercorn rental" was originally an English expression, and it means exactly what it sounds like. Assuming, of course, that you know what a peppercorn looks like :-)
When I first started out in computing (in the heady days when the Earth was newly-cooled and everybody was using core memory) I worked for a couple of years with a Burroughs B3700.
When the business finally replaced the machine with a Honeywell DPS7, I was really impressed with the amount of silver cable the salvage guys pulled out of the false floor. It filled a large-ish truck.
I'll always think of that as one of those opportunities missed... :-)
And I'm a loyal buyer of dickhead matches :-)
This crap got modded Score: 5? I give up. I seriously hope that not all of you Americans are as pig-ignorant as this moron.
Which, presumably, is why you've chosen to remain anonymous?
Dunno about Ximian any more since I no longer run any RH boxes, but Dropline Gnome is now my distribution of choice (for Slackware). It tends to be kept very current, and is very stable.
Isn't that an oxymoron? :-)
Like, for instance that silly panel at the top of the screen which can be non-trivial to remove.
Truly said. After all, nobody would want to use the code :-).
Maybe it does, but I, for one, would find it moderately hard to run Mozilla without an X11 session. Maybe an extension to represent the page as ASCII-art? :-)
Many thanks for that, I had never noticed that feature, and I've been using Mozilla for years - just goes to show... :-)
Silly me. :-)
Just in case you don't know, if you have a scroll-mouse you can use it to interactively increase/decrease font-size in Mozilla by holding a user-selected modifier-key while rolling the wheel. I presume the function is there in Firebird as well...
I have no particular beef against Opera except from brief contact with the "free" version a few years ago when, for all its speed etc, the adspace seemed to take up more room on the screen than the webpage content.
But is it so hard to stick to the topic?
But... but... emacs is a browser :-)
man emacs if you don't believe me. I've found it quite handy from time to time when I've had to ssh to a host from a dumb terminal after a failed X11 session. While I mostly use Gnome nowadays, it is perfectly possible to use emacs as a complete desktop environment.
Ok, I'm a man, and I'm getting oldish (40) but it seems to me that the most brilliant of all the mathematics students (undergrad and post-) at "my" university are mostly female. And not necessarily under 40, either.
You've got a bad build then. Mozilla has had good anti-aliasing for a long time. Is SUSE using the binary that comes direct from mozilla.org? (I.e. with no xft enabled?) I'm using one that came with Dropline Gnome (for Slackware) and font rendering is just gorgeous. There was a time when I used to think font rendering was much better handled under winbloze, but nowadays whenever I have to work at one of those machines I always find text hard to read. Just goes to show how quickly we get spoilt.
I like to entertain fantasies about all that junk snail-mail collecting at the post-office. But I would love to be a fly on the wall to hear a telemarketer call that phone number and explain to the Western Australian Police why they think I might want a a turbocharged teflon-coated dildo :-).
In the article they are talking about the possibilities for re-identification of individuals from public-domain data. I can think of several types of organisation who would profit from that type of information, and none of them would be welcome in my home.
My point is that if comprehensive data is being collected about you by any organisation with which you have had no contact, and without informing you, you are running into a really dangerous situation which is only too easily abused.
A simple case would be crimes like burglary (income, address, occupation==times of absence). Then you can get into really ugly cases like stalking, rape and murder. And I'm not even going to get started on the possibilities for identity theft, etc.