Most Australian ISPs have an acceptable-use policy which, from what I've seen, is fairly strictly enforced. There are a couple of notable exceptions, but the industry as a whole is vigorous and competitive in a comparatively small community, and ISPs can be made to hurt fairly badly if they allow their users to transgress against accepted codes of conduct. I've known of quite a number of cases where spammers got the plug pulled on them.
My point is, in other words, that if someone doesn't know how to behave as a "netizen" then there is already an informal means of removing him from the community. All it takes is an email or even a phone call.
I can easily look at an envolope and decide if I want to open it
Sure you can. But it's much more fun to open it, take out the pre-paid envelope, shred all the other papers (or pad it with loo paper if you want, used or otherwise - take your pick), pack it all in the pre-paid envelope and send it back.:-)
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email variety is a worse misuse of resources, considering the volume
Worse than chopping down trees? Not to mention the side-effects of the CD production and disposal process. Your priorities worry me...
Of course, nobody outside the US has a bloody clue what you're talking about:-)
Oh, wait - Triumph made a motorbike called a Thunderbird back in the sixties. I seem to remember calling it the thunderbox, though - it really wasn't up to the standard of many of their other bikes.
I too like the linux apps, but most of the people I tend to share labs with tend to be Windows heads (carefully avoiding perjoratives here - i.e. whatever rocks their boat:-)). Unfortunately, with most of these guys, the sound is the last thing to go, but I'll accomplish nothing by banging on about etiquette.
Good post. My only real problem with IM is that it's very hard to get any work done when constantly being interrupted. I used ICQ for some time back in 98 or 99, but eventually decided that since I was having to "shut the door" to chat sessions for long periods when I was busy that it made sense to just use email. I've found I'm more productive if I use my mental "down-time" to deal with email.
Also, when I'm in a room full of people running ICQ, I find that dumbass "Uh-Oh!" wav bloody irritating...:-)
I've never had a single spam message from those places
90 percent of my spam originates from the US. Most of it has forged headers, but I haven't seen any yahoo spam since they got tough on spammers. I have a couple of yahoo accounts which have not received a single spam, either, which is pretty impressive given that my account names are made up from dictionary words without any numerics. As for Hotmail, the service is so crappy that noone would bother using it for spam anyway.
My MTAs have been set up to blackhole AOL mail (on a whitelist basis) since about 1997 or 98:-). I had almost forgotten... At that time, I was getting a heap of spam from their domains, and as I'm in Australia and AOL doesn't have a significant coverage here it's pretty safe from false positives.
is the fact that the Enter key is in the wrong place. (And not big enough.) If the 49 had the same keyboard as the 48, I would probably never have bought a TI-89.
I saw a major improvement with -O6 Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that gcc, while it recognises optimisation flags up to 10, it doesn't actually do anything past -O3. Is that not hthe case?
Slackware is no longer the king of hard.It doesn't pretend to be. It just works; it's one of the simplest distros, ideal for tweakers. The init scripts make sense to "real" unix heads, and if you want to recompile anything (or everything) from scratch, it won't stand in your way like rpm or perhaps even deb based systems will. Basically, it just gives you a world to stand on while you do it.
Both TI and HP calculators are good, in their own ways. (I have both HP48G+ and TI-89.) From where I sit, though (as a biotechnology student) most students around me use Casio machines - OK, so they're not serious about maths:-). Next in popularity is TI (mostly 83+ I think) and lastly, a few stragglers with HP38 or 39s. I see very few 48s and I've only seen two HP49s in use at my university.
The case for HP hasn't been helped by the fact that they have dropped development for their calculators.
So did I until I started playing with custom menus (which come pretty intuitatively to HP48 users). Being able to find progs according to context makes a big difference if you've got a lot of them. Saves a lot of time spent wading through var-link listings.
I have both an HP48G+ and a TI-89. I love RPN, which of course is native to the HP beast and available to the TI as a userspace program.
The pro for the HP48 series is the nice positive "clickiness" of the keys - and, of course, the nice big fat Enter key right where your index finger can find it (if you're right-handed, that is; never thought of that before:-))
However, it is slow. The TI-89 is much faster for just about everything. No, correction: everything, no "just about". and I put up with the spongy key action for that. Oh, and it's pretty handy at implicit differentiation and integration by parts, which the HP can't cope with at all.
I was being facetious when I brought up Brirish Airways food (double entendre intended):-)
I was really talking about the experience of sitting on a seat in an alumium tube with little or no view by comparison with being in a light aircraft with the sky all around you... IANAP (I am not a pilot), but I like the ride.
Dunno about palm users, but I haven't played a computer game in months. I've got better things to do. OK, so I'm a curmudgeon (and I like it like that:-) ) but most people I know don't give a flying fart about games.
But I would take a flight in a Sopwith Camel (or certainly a Gypsy Moth) over a flight on Concorde any day. British Airways plastic food vs. a real aviation experience, anyone? OK, I was born in 1963, (even the most arithmetically challenged should be able to work out my age from that) and when I was a kid I thought Concorde was pretty cool, but now I think the slow-boat would be much more fun.
Anybody remember the Tupolev TU-144? Came out much the same sort of time (i.e. sometime in the early 14th century, when I was a kid:-) ) There weren't many commercial flights, but I remember thinking that given the similarities between the two aircraft, it was kind of sad that the Russians never really got it together.
Well said, JaredOfEuropa. Trouble is, quite often it is often the most well-meaning of friends and relations who inadvertently spill your address into spammers' hands. Mail this page to a friend, anyone? Thankyouverymuchyukyukyuk...
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My point is, in other words, that if someone doesn't know how to behave as a "netizen" then there is already an informal means of removing him from the community. All it takes is an email or even a phone call.
Maybe, but he is a complete arsehole :-)
Sure you can. But it's much more fun to open it, take out the pre-paid envelope, shred all the other papers (or pad it with loo paper if you want, used or otherwise - take your pick), pack it all in the pre-paid envelope and send it back. :-)
Worse than chopping down trees? Not to mention the side-effects of the CD production and disposal process. Your priorities worry me...
Oh, wait - Triumph made a motorbike called a Thunderbird back in the sixties. I seem to remember calling it the thunderbox, though - it really wasn't up to the standard of many of their other bikes.
I too like the linux apps, but most of the people I tend to share labs with tend to be Windows heads (carefully avoiding perjoratives here - i.e. whatever rocks their boat :-)). Unfortunately, with most of these guys, the sound is the last thing to go, but I'll accomplish nothing by banging on about etiquette.
I still like Hunt The Wumpus :-)
Also, when I'm in a room full of people running ICQ, I find that dumbass "Uh-Oh!" wav bloody irritating... :-)
90 percent of my spam originates from the US. Most of it has forged headers, but I haven't seen any yahoo spam since they got tough on spammers. I have a couple of yahoo accounts which have not received a single spam, either, which is pretty impressive given that my account names are made up from dictionary words without any numerics. As for Hotmail, the service is so crappy that noone would bother using it for spam anyway.
AOL is a different matter, though.
My MTAs have been set up to blackhole AOL mail (on a whitelist basis) since about 1997 or 98 :-). I had almost forgotten... At that time, I was getting a heap of spam from their domains, and as I'm in Australia and AOL doesn't have a significant coverage here it's pretty safe from false positives.
You're lucky: in most of my biochem exams, no calculators are allowed.
is the fact that the Enter key is in the wrong place. (And not big enough.) If the 49 had the same keyboard as the 48, I would probably never have bought a TI-89.
I saw a major improvement with -O6 Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that gcc, while it recognises optimisation flags up to 10, it doesn't actually do anything past -O3. Is that not hthe case?
Slackware is no longer the king of hard.It doesn't pretend to be. It just works; it's one of the simplest distros, ideal for tweakers. The init scripts make sense to "real" unix heads, and if you want to recompile anything (or everything) from scratch, it won't stand in your way like rpm or perhaps even deb based systems will. Basically, it just gives you a world to stand on while you do it.
The case for HP hasn't been helped by the fact that they have dropped development for their calculators.
So did I until I started playing with custom menus (which come pretty intuitatively to HP48 users). Being able to find progs according to context makes a big difference if you've got a lot of them. Saves a lot of time spent wading through var-link listings.
The pro for the HP48 series is the nice positive "clickiness" of the keys - and, of course, the nice big fat Enter key right where your index finger can find it (if you're right-handed, that is; never thought of that before :-))
However, it is slow. The TI-89 is much faster for just about everything. No, correction: everything, no "just about". and I put up with the spongy key action for that. Oh, and it's pretty handy at implicit differentiation and integration by parts, which the HP can't cope with at all.
I was really talking about the experience of sitting on a seat in an alumium tube with little or no view by comparison with being in a light aircraft with the sky all around you... IANAP (I am not a pilot), but I like the ride.
Why? Punch card readers are nice and heavy, and good for holding doors open (or closed).
Dunno about palm users, but I haven't played a computer game in months. I've got better things to do. OK, so I'm a curmudgeon (and I like it like that :-) ) but most people I know don't give a flying fart about games.
Nope. I'm using the Dropline build with Slackware, and it works flawlessly.
But then, I come from the Channel Islands, and I'm a Norman (i.e. not French (and certainly not English!))
But I would take a flight in a Sopwith Camel (or certainly a Gypsy Moth) over a flight on Concorde any day. British Airways plastic food vs. a real aviation experience, anyone? OK, I was born in 1963, (even the most arithmetically challenged should be able to work out my age from that) and when I was a kid I thought Concorde was pretty cool, but now I think the slow-boat would be much more fun.
Anybody remember the Tupolev TU-144? Came out much the same sort of time (i.e. sometime in the early 14th century, when I was a kid :-) ) There weren't many commercial flights, but I remember thinking that given the similarities between the two aircraft, it was kind of sad that the Russians never really got it together.
Well said, JaredOfEuropa. Trouble is, quite often it is often the most well-meaning of friends and relations who inadvertently spill your address into spammers' hands. Mail this page to a friend, anyone? Thankyouverymuchyukyukyuk...