since I am a lowly science student, but I would love a tablet-type box (linux only, please...).
Trouble is, I have what is sometimes regarded as a somewhat old-fashioned style of handwriting which (although I'm somewhat proud of it) tends to defeat most OCR software, and I can't see it working for me...
Possibly very useful, but the eye is a pretty sensitive organ, and does not regenerate when damaged. I don't know about you, but I won't be the first in line to have my retina scanned by any device, and any officious security guard who tries to force me had better be prepared for a fight.
As a former (very much veteran) sysprog relatively recently turned student again, I find the biggest drawback to using PDAs, laptops or any other electronic gadget while away from my own desk results in a lot of wasted time. I am an inveterate tinkerer, and I'll happily waste hours playing with algorithms, jazzing up an interface or reading Slashdot:-) rather than getting any actual study done.
There's a lot to be said for the humble pencil and notepad...
Since the nazi's asleep: grammer [sic] is spelt: grammar:-) I'll decline to comment on the beginning of your sentence regarding immunity... Maybe Slashdot should incorporate a basic subject/verb agreement parsing utility into comment forms:-)
There is a huge amount of low-level things that QuickTime relies on, like low latency access to sound cards...
I've no quarrel with that, but surely they must have worked out generalised routines in order to come up with the Windoze ports of Quicktime, in which case one might be justified in arguing that the work is already half done.
I, for one, would probably not object too strenuously to shelling out a nominal few dollars for a decently-working Quicktime viewer for Linux just for the convenience of being able to view those occasional movie files.
Hell, my wife is one of those people! Her office Winbloze machine crashes twice a day, and she still goes ape at me if I so much as change the desktop background on our boxen at home...:-)
Or does the causation run the other way round - because all the obscure Emacs keybindings are so well known by its users (and developers), they can't be changed?
With anything that has been around for as long as Unix, it would probably be a bit of both.
This is true, but whatever the motivation for imposing this burden on ISPs, history should tell us that if a system is open to abuse (and http logging is flagrantly so) we can be assured that there are plenty of people out there who are willing to abuse it.
if you block the SPAM at your system, then the SPAM has already contributed to bandwidth wastage.
True, but if you bounce it any further, you are perpetuating it. Since most attempts to nail spammers personally tend to be little more than shots in the dark, I have found it more useful to simply blackhole the junk. I used to make efforts to petition spammers' ISPs to discipline their users, but stopped when I found evidence that some of those ISPs had simply added my current email addresses to another bulk-mailing list.
I, too seriously considered Woody when I was last looking around for a "real" distro after an abortive foray into Mandrake; I don't have the bandwidth to download ISOs, so I mostly have to buy CDs. The simple fact is that Slack 8.0 was relatively current and available, but I couldn't find anybody here in Australia who was willing to take the time to answer enquiries for Woody CDs. As it happens, having revisited Slackware now that it's outgrown it's "satan worshipper" image, I'm glad I did - it's a fscking good distro.
The docs at Slackware still refer to installing from floppies; I haven't done this, however, since the very early days when it all fitted on something like (I can't remember exactly) a dozen floppies, and my floppy drive was so flaky I had to have three sets to be sure of getting one that was useable... Them were the days...:-)
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I thought the bible was Kernighan & Ritchie's (Zen and the Art of the) C programming language... :-)
There have been two such machines at Murdoch University here in Perth for at least two years.
I'm not trying to start a flame war here, but I am curious as to why slackware packages are crappy. Perhaps you wouldn't mind explaining...
So do you think it'll be cool for some kiddie to come up with a routine that tracks the movement of your eyeballs over Britney Spears' cleavage?
Trouble is, I have what is sometimes regarded as a somewhat old-fashioned style of handwriting which (although I'm somewhat proud of it) tends to defeat most OCR software, and I can't see it working for me...
I notice from the screenshots that it appears to be running on a Win2K box...
already... Bummer.
Just imagine your "existence" depending on the date of your last Slashdot posting...
There are times when this world can be shit to live in too... :-)
How any new technology designed for surveillance can be described as "flat out cool".
Fresh coffee? Come on, we're talking about airlines here... :-)
Possibly very useful, but the eye is a pretty sensitive organ, and does not regenerate when damaged. I don't know about you, but I won't be the first in line to have my retina scanned by any device, and any officious security guard who tries to force me had better be prepared for a fight.
There's a lot to be said for the humble pencil and notepad...
Since the nazi's asleep: grammer [sic] is spelt: grammar :-) I'll decline to comment on the beginning of your sentence regarding immunity... Maybe Slashdot should incorporate a basic subject/verb agreement parsing utility into comment forms :-)
I've no quarrel with that, but surely they must have worked out generalised routines in order to come up with the Windoze ports of Quicktime, in which case one might be justified in arguing that the work is already half done.
I, for one, would probably not object too strenuously to shelling out a nominal few dollars for a decently-working Quicktime viewer for Linux just for the convenience of being able to view those occasional movie files.
Did it get a parking ticket?
Hell, my wife is one of those people! Her office Winbloze machine crashes twice a day, and she still goes ape at me if I so much as change the desktop background on our boxen at home... :-)
With anything that has been around for as long as Unix, it would probably be a bit of both.
At least it doesn't have to sell itself on the point that dumber people can run it :-)
This is true, but whatever the motivation for imposing this burden on ISPs, history should tell us that if a system is open to abuse (and http logging is flagrantly so) we can be assured that there are plenty of people out there who are willing to abuse it.
True, but if you bounce it any further, you are perpetuating it. Since most attempts to nail spammers personally tend to be little more than shots in the dark, I have found it more useful to simply blackhole the junk. I used to make efforts to petition spammers' ISPs to discipline their users, but stopped when I found evidence that some of those ISPs had simply added my current email addresses to another bulk-mailing list.
I think, in some respects, it already has. Just look at the number of fairly high-profile ISPs who rely on Linux boxen for mail and web servers.
I, too seriously considered Woody when I was last looking around for a "real" distro after an abortive foray into Mandrake; I don't have the bandwidth to download ISOs, so I mostly have to buy CDs. The simple fact is that Slack 8.0 was relatively current and available, but I couldn't find anybody here in Australia who was willing to take the time to answer enquiries for Woody CDs. As it happens, having revisited Slackware now that it's outgrown it's "satan worshipper" image, I'm glad I did - it's a fscking good distro.
The docs at Slackware still refer to installing from floppies; I haven't done this, however, since the very early days when it all fitted on something like (I can't remember exactly) a dozen floppies, and my floppy drive was so flaky I had to have three sets to be sure of getting one that was useable... Them were the days... :-)
Mine's a set of 3 CDs; install, source and one marked "contrib" which I've never looked at.