They have a script which uses sendmail to update your information. That's unacceptable in a desktop setting.
If you think about it, back in those days most distros that I'm aware of included sendmail by default, so it sort of makes sense to use what was there.
Wouldn't that be all of them? Certainly those whom you most want to block will always be those who won't take any notice of a polite request to stop. Seems to me that the only useful measure is to refuse all traffic from obnoxious servers, e.g. by hosts file blocking. The drawback is that you pretty much only build up that kind of blacklist the hard way, unless you are prepared to use someone else's list...
At least the mac ships with a command line worth shit...
By default, just about any Mac I have come across ships with sh, bash, csh, ksh and (my favourite) zsh available out of the box. I don't really see how one might improve on Apple's selection of command line environments.
Given the nature of the application and its usefulness...
...which leads me to wonder what this program provides that we can't already get from Wireshark. It's a trivial matter to compile this for OS X (Macports was my preferred path while I was playing with Macs, but whatever rocks your boat).
My choice (FWIW) is currently the Sony/Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro. The device is nice and compact (which also means that the screen is a bit small for extended internet browsing, but I have proper computers for that), but the slide-out keypad has a surprisingly good action. My only grizzle about the device is that it doesn't come with a recent version of Android, so if you're into being at the bleeding edge this machine is not for you.
Thanks for letting us know that typing is a useful skill, I guess.
If my first experience with computers had been with anything other than the Burroughs B3700 master console (known as the SPO, for Supervisory Printer Operator) back in the '70s, I might have attempted learning how to to touch-type. As it was, I am convinced that not even God could have done so on that machine, so I acquired a technique using thumbs and two pinkies of both hands which has served me fairly well for over 30 years.
I also used to be pretty damn fast with the old 10-button card punch. But be that as it may, when it comes to typing documents on a modern keyboard, I spend a lot more time considering exactly what I am going to write than I do pushing buttons, so my neanderthal technique is irrelevant.
What really pisses me off? They spend their billions and waste their considerable engineering talent (drained from the main pool, where it could be put to so much better use) on piddly, unwanted and irredeemably narcissistic UI frippery, like this irredeemable excrescence.
Not that I disagree, but there are lots of equally craniorectal UI designs in the OSS world. Take Gnome 3, for instance. I've been a Linux user since ~1995 but spent a couple of years travelling around with a MacBook until a couple of weeks ago when that machine died messily. Returning to Linux was an educational experience.
I've been primarily a Gnome user since before version 1.0, but the new interface is so counterintuitive and needs so much mouse action as to make it almost unusable for my purposes. And that was just for firing up applications; configuring the desktop was a nightmare.
Looking for alternatives, I toyed briefly with XFCE+compiz-fusion, but that still didn't rock my boat, and for the moment I am working with KDE. I guess the moral of the story (from my point of view) is that any desktop environment that treats the desktop as anything other than a place to drop or open files is something I don't want.
Perhaps because they don't mean exactly the same thing by any stretch of the imagination in any dialect of English with which I'm familiar, which is a quite a few.
Well, of course they don't exactly mean the same thing now, but my point is that etymologically they did: as in to wallop one's cods...
"Tedious and trivial" depends entirely on your point of view. If I were in the business of making guitars, I would be pretty pissed off if some fuckwit came along and confiscated my raw materials.
Germany has to look a long way into its past for this, since a lot of these proscribed words originate directly from Saxon origins. My current boss is a German who occasionally takes exception to my colourful use of my mother tongue. She was less than amused when I pointed out that her nation was directly responsible for my vocabulary.
Indeed.One thing I find curious, though, is the fact that "wank" is included, while "codswallop" is not, despite the fact that they mean exactly the same thing.
What I object to here is that the reader is required to log in to a Google account in order to read the list in question. For a summary, that is just plain damn stupid.
However, some of these words should cause all sorts of innocent amusement. For instance, the word "ejaculated" will not be unfamiliar to readers of Enid Blyton, just as the word "bastard" would be equally recognisable to anyone who has studied the lineage of various royal families.
Personally, when I'm using a word processor or code editor I don't want to have to move my hand to the mouse...
Same here. Actually, I usually prefer to to any text editing in Emacs, which is by far a better text editor than any word processing package I have found (with the possible exception of WordPerfect 5.1) and paste the text into LaTex if I need it marked up for print. But whether or not I am writing anything important, the Emacs keybindings are essential to me.
For a couple of years I allowed myself to become accustomed to the Mac approach to input, since I inherited my wife's MacBook. But since that machine died (spectacularly and messily) last weekend, I am rediscovering the *nix-ish middle-click paste, and love it.
I have gone down the path of LFS, mostly by way of setting up a very specialised system. I definitely wouldn't bother with it for a desktop box, since life is just too short to subject yourself to the workload of effectively maintaining your own distribution.
However, a simple approach to getting Linux running on a 386 might be to simply download one of the slightly older Slackware ISOs. I haven't checked the most recent offerings since I migrated to Arch, but IIRC it wasn't that long ago (1-2 years?) that Slack was offering 386 binaries as standard.
...I've seen all the tricks. I've been exposed to every nasty little mindgame management has at it's disposal. And sometimes I have the bad manners to call people on it. This is called "having a bad attitude".
Same here. My attitude is referred to by my current employers as "negatif". (They are German. I have never been accustomed to think ill of that particular nationality, but in the case of this outfit, all of the worst characteristics of the stereotype have turned out to be entirely true.)
On the whole, I always been accustomed to think of myself as being eminently employable, but I have come to the realisation that my age and experience definitely represent a belligerence factor when it comes to accepting bullshit.
Indeed. Over the last 4 decades I have written lots of assembly code for a host of machines such as Burroughs B3700, CDC Cyber, Honeywell DPSx and Data General MVxx00 systems, and even (somewhat later) for Intel *86 boxes. I don't remember agonising (even once) over what to call the language. Sure, the CPU architectures are different, of course, but the operations are pretty much the same.
Returning to the topic of the OP, my contention is that so long as you have your marbles, there is no reason why you should not be able to learn a new programming language. Assembly coding is comparatively hard to do, and no longer necessarily that useful on the majority of modern machines. There might be a coolness factor implicit with the use of ASM which I missed back in the day when that was what we did, but I guess I missed that.
However, such advanced age as mine might be an incentive to choose quite carefully where to distribute your interests. I can't offer any particularly insightful choices here, since I don't know what the function is; if all you're doing is coding for websites, then take your pick out of the various markups available. If I were still writing apps I would personally pick C and/or Fortran for my (perhaps geriatric) preference, but I would still consider learning Python or Ruby.
The M-Disc can be dipped in liquid nitrogen and then boiling water without harming it
I used to be a blacksmith back in an earlier life, and I still have all of my tools, which include a 500-pound power hammer. I bet that would make short work of that pissy little drive...:-)
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They have a script which uses sendmail to update your information. That's unacceptable in a desktop setting.
If you think about it, back in those days most distros that I'm aware of included sendmail by default, so it sort of makes sense to use what was there.
Find companies that violate these rules.
Wouldn't that be all of them? Certainly those whom you most want to block will always be those who won't take any notice of a polite request to stop. Seems to me that the only useful measure is to refuse all traffic from obnoxious servers, e.g. by hosts file blocking. The drawback is that you pretty much only build up that kind of blacklist the hard way, unless you are prepared to use someone else's list...
At least the mac ships with a command line worth shit...
By default, just about any Mac I have come across ships with sh, bash, csh, ksh and (my favourite) zsh available out of the box. I don't really see how one might improve on Apple's selection of command line environments.
Given the nature of the application and its usefulness...
...which leads me to wonder what this program provides that we can't already get from Wireshark. It's a trivial matter to compile this for OS X (Macports was my preferred path while I was playing with Macs, but whatever rocks your boat).
The typo's that show up when someone relies heavily upon autocompletion are cute though.
However, anyone who forms a plural with an apostrophe deserves to be covered with honey and pegged out on top of an ants' nest.
My choice (FWIW) is currently the Sony/Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro. The device is nice and compact (which also means that the screen is a bit small for extended internet browsing, but I have proper computers for that), but the slide-out keypad has a surprisingly good action. My only grizzle about the device is that it doesn't come with a recent version of Android, so if you're into being at the bleeding edge this machine is not for you.
Thanks for letting us know that typing is a useful skill, I guess.
If my first experience with computers had been with anything other than the Burroughs B3700 master console (known as the SPO, for Supervisory Printer Operator) back in the '70s, I might have attempted learning how to to touch-type. As it was, I am convinced that not even God could have done so on that machine, so I acquired a technique using thumbs and two pinkies of both hands which has served me fairly well for over 30 years.
I also used to be pretty damn fast with the old 10-button card punch. But be that as it may, when it comes to typing documents on a modern keyboard, I spend a lot more time considering exactly what I am going to write than I do pushing buttons, so my neanderthal technique is irrelevant.
please dont use convenient units when youre talking about something non-scientific
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Hmmm. So we should just talk in terms like "damn hot" or "fucking hot"?
and that a room that's reported as being 300 K just doesn't have the same sensory connection as saying the room is 23 C or 71 F.
Except that it sounds like you really need to switch the heating off. ;-)
What really pisses me off? They spend their billions and waste their considerable engineering talent (drained from the main pool, where it could be put to so much better use) on piddly, unwanted and irredeemably narcissistic UI frippery, like this irredeemable excrescence.
Not that I disagree, but there are lots of equally craniorectal UI designs in the OSS world. Take Gnome 3, for instance. I've been a Linux user since ~1995 but spent a couple of years travelling around with a MacBook until a couple of weeks ago when that machine died messily. Returning to Linux was an educational experience.
I've been primarily a Gnome user since before version 1.0, but the new interface is so counterintuitive and needs so much mouse action as to make it almost unusable for my purposes. And that was just for firing up applications; configuring the desktop was a nightmare.
Looking for alternatives, I toyed briefly with XFCE+compiz-fusion, but that still didn't rock my boat, and for the moment I am working with KDE. I guess the moral of the story (from my point of view) is that any desktop environment that treats the desktop as anything other than a place to drop or open files is something I don't want.
Perhaps because they don't mean exactly the same thing by any stretch of the imagination in any dialect of English with which I'm familiar, which is a quite a few.
Well, of course they don't exactly mean the same thing now, but my point is that etymologically they did: as in to wallop one's cods...
"Tedious and trivial" depends entirely on your point of view. If I were in the business of making guitars, I would be pretty pissed off if some fuckwit came along and confiscated my raw materials.
The current system we have works...
...in the context of an acceptable lunchtime. I (for one) have no interest in partaking of my luncheon at 2.30 in the morning, thank you very much. ;-)
Maybe we need a "Society for the Preservation of the Subjunctive"? Good for tilting at windmills, if nothing else...
Germany has to look a long way into its past for this, since a lot of these proscribed words originate directly from Saxon origins. My current boss is a German who occasionally takes exception to my colourful use of my mother tongue. She was less than amused when I pointed out that her nation was directly responsible for my vocabulary.
Misplaced humour? Is that where you leave it in another jacket?
Yes, that's much more readable than TFS.
Indeed.One thing I find curious, though, is the fact that "wank" is included, while "codswallop" is not, despite the fact that they mean exactly the same thing.
fundamental anatomy
?
:-)
I can only assume you mean "anatomy of the fundament".
What I object to here is that the reader is required to log in to a Google account in order to read the list in question. For a summary, that is just plain damn stupid.
However, some of these words should cause all sorts of innocent amusement. For instance, the word "ejaculated" will not be unfamiliar to readers of Enid Blyton, just as the word "bastard" would be equally recognisable to anyone who has studied the lineage of various royal families.
Personally, when I'm using a word processor or code editor I don't want to have to move my hand to the mouse...
Same here. Actually, I usually prefer to to any text editing in Emacs, which is by far a better text editor than any word processing package I have found (with the possible exception of WordPerfect 5.1) and paste the text into LaTex if I need it marked up for print. But whether or not I am writing anything important, the Emacs keybindings are essential to me.
For a couple of years I allowed myself to become accustomed to the Mac approach to input, since I inherited my wife's MacBook. But since that machine died (spectacularly and messily) last weekend, I am rediscovering the *nix-ish middle-click paste, and love it.
I have gone down the path of LFS, mostly by way of setting up a very specialised system. I definitely wouldn't bother with it for a desktop box, since life is just too short to subject yourself to the workload of effectively maintaining your own distribution.
However, a simple approach to getting Linux running on a 386 might be to simply download one of the slightly older Slackware ISOs. I haven't checked the most recent offerings since I migrated to Arch, but IIRC it wasn't that long ago (1-2 years?) that Slack was offering 386 binaries as standard.
...I've seen all the tricks. I've been exposed to every nasty little mindgame management has at it's disposal. And sometimes I have the bad manners to call people on it. This is called "having a bad attitude".
Same here. My attitude is referred to by my current employers as "negatif". (They are German. I have never been accustomed to think ill of that particular nationality, but in the case of this outfit, all of the worst characteristics of the stereotype have turned out to be entirely true.)
On the whole, I always been accustomed to think of myself as being eminently employable, but I have come to the realisation that my age and experience definitely represent a belligerence factor when it comes to accepting bullshit.
Indeed. Over the last 4 decades I have written lots of assembly code for a host of machines such as Burroughs B3700, CDC Cyber, Honeywell DPSx and Data General MVxx00 systems, and even (somewhat later) for Intel *86 boxes. I don't remember agonising (even once) over what to call the language. Sure, the CPU architectures are different, of course, but the operations are pretty much the same.
Returning to the topic of the OP, my contention is that so long as you have your marbles, there is no reason why you should not be able to learn a new programming language. Assembly coding is comparatively hard to do, and no longer necessarily that useful on the majority of modern machines. There might be a coolness factor implicit with the use of ASM which I missed back in the day when that was what we did, but I guess I missed that.
However, such advanced age as mine might be an incentive to choose quite carefully where to distribute your interests. I can't offer any particularly insightful choices here, since I don't know what the function is; if all you're doing is coding for websites, then take your pick out of the various markups available. If I were still writing apps I would personally pick C and/or Fortran for my (perhaps geriatric) preference, but I would still consider learning Python or Ruby.
The M-Disc can be dipped in liquid nitrogen and then boiling water without harming it
I used to be a blacksmith back in an earlier life, and I still have all of my tools, which include a 500-pound power hammer. I bet that would make short work of that pissy little drive... :-)
Most douchenozzles write virii for kicks.
And much worse, only a total and utter douchebag uses "virii" as a plural form of "virus".