I was expecting a great conversation about persuasion etc instead I get talk about crappy suits...
Anyway,
"ask not just whether the author is telling the truth, but why he's writing about this subject at all."
^ an EXCELLENT thing to do when reading slashdot!
Nearly all magazine are just one big hit; FHM, MensHealth,Cosmo,Heat. So I can't be bothered with that; it's really annoying when you start reading something about say, how good for example Whey is for the body, only to get to the end and find an advert for a Whey company. That's when you relise they've just wasted your time because the source isn't trustworthy.
The same thing is happening online so stay sharp people... I for one will be quietly marketing in the future.
Guess it was a while ago but I can't remember how they did it. That's Tom Hanks for you.
As a result here's my executive summary:
- oxygen tank exploded - 2 of 3 fuel cells lost "Houston, we've had a problem."
- Ed Smylie, engineer at home watching TV disaster rushes into the centre - O2 buildup fixable with lithium hydroxide canisters to help CO2 buildup... but some of the backup square canisters were not compatible with the round openings in the lunar module
"If you saw the movie (`Apollo 13'), it wasn't like that," Smylie said, adding there wasn't any hollering and screaming. "Everything is pretty calm, cool and collected in our business."
- used duck-tape to convert the backup square canisters to fit the round lunar module fittings
- this allowed the astronauts to breath just that little bit longer
Symbian? Symbian's a bit crazy. I feel that in order to have progress things need to die. Symbian is actually a rehash of PalmOS; very old. WinCE is actually ok, but again, it's just a rehash and you're not free. Linux is okay if you got the resources, convienient for porting. vxworks is a nightmare, check out the vx-explode mailing list!! It's like they don't want you to know anything about it since important things run on it... like cable modems...
Personally I find NetBSD idealolgically my favorite but I'm not well versed enough on the technicalities.
Playing back lectures while in bed just before sleep probably saved me failing my degree.
For consealment put the recording device in the leg of your boot; hence the phrase.
You shouldn't have to ask for permission, that seems strange because it is. It's already in your head. But I do understand the territorial pissings of the modern word, yes.
Takes me about half an hour to go through config and that's someone who knows what most options are... and what hardware I have.
Obviously you have to do things properly by hand, but this is taking longer and longer.
Start by coping over your old config, that will help.
But never-the-less, every new option has to be looked at, considered and then selcted or deselected. Sometimes it can be a hard decision; you might have a parrallel port but will you actually use it? "hmm, well I suppose a friend might just bring round a 486 laptop with a laplink cable.."
I wanted to send you a message but I guess this will have to do. Mind if I ask what product you used to get rid of Norton? (we've been doing it manually)
hmm, Symantec... the poeple who brought us Norton. I just spent all day removing Norton2003 from 4 customers Winblowz PCs, after InCD incompatibilities and autoupdate trojan hijacking. Personally I'd reinstall, well, makes me money.
The Symantec name has been blown from my view in these last few days.
You know, I'd stick my neck out here and say NO! It depends! This is all about default settings.
What IS Windows? What IS linux?
Is Windows a machine ruinning an old copy of IE with a single auto-login user running as admin?, hundereds of services running from the likes of nvidia and ATi, - to most minds the assumption is yes.
And I know for one my linux box isn't setup as tight as it could be because I know how much hassle that entails. The process running this browser has enough permissions to wipe out my data drive; I like to save pictures there after all. What am I to do - setup sudo to another user and script it's launch? - how many do that? Do you?
Is linux a 2.6 kernel and Firefox?
This is all very silly. One day something will pop up that will hijack Firefox or Konqueror (more likely as less frequently updated) just the same as IE. If it has less of an effect it'll be due to linux users keeping an eye on things.
All connections should share like this automatically. I see it as essential. And so did the TCP/IP people when they drafted v6.
Yes, you can play with htb.init or various scripts or even buy a ready made front end in your hardware router like my Asus WL500-G, or Linksys WRT range, or even checkout bandwidtharbitrator.com,
but all these thing require your invervention, named to specify your up & down speeds accurately and in the right units. Not everyone can answer that.
Really it should be automatic - if we ping a site and it's way beyond what it should be then we have a problem. It's rare that we want latency in any event.
Worse still ports or IPs have to be prioritised so you have to find out what ports are involved - all should be balanced as required.
I feel there is a common setup that can catered for - the home user, one internet NAT box with various boxes behind it. Most people on here could benefit from something to help that setup.
Finally there's useability. I personally haven't found anything quite as good as Netlimiter on Windows ( netlimiter.com ) on that front.
People tend to have abilities that polarise into 2 camps:
- `empathy` with code - empathy with people
So the people who code best aren't so good at getting into the mind of the numbskull.
The problem isn't quite as bad as you think.
Non-coders, this is where you come in.
I have often noticed things in OSS that can be improved and as someone who doesn't enjoy coding I find I'm really good at noticing useability problems.
I sometimes put in requests but I feel I'm stepping out of line because I don't code. In fact it seems rude to use someones gift to you and then critique it. Value the views of the non-coder.
- so you have to be massively diplomatic and even then your suggestions will probably be ignored because...
- there's little incentive for OSS to work well for non coders.
If anyone can think of ways to improve these problems please get in touch. Computers are annoying enough.
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Probably totally offtopic but what the hey,
anyone know how I can listen to streaming mp3 with my SonyEriccson P800?
Snot under the elctron microscope. I'm sure it's been done many a time before.
Haven't had many opportunities other than that.
Unfortunately I didn't get to see my own spunk.
I was expecting a great conversation about persuasion etc instead I get talk about crappy suits...
Anyway,
"ask not just whether the author is telling the truth, but why he's writing about this subject at all."
^ an EXCELLENT thing to do when reading slashdot!
Nearly all magazine are just one big hit; FHM, MensHealth,Cosmo,Heat. So I can't be bothered with that; it's really annoying when you start reading something about say, how good for example Whey is for the body, only to get to the end and find an advert for a Whey company. That's when you relise they've just wasted your time because the source isn't trustworthy.
The same thing is happening online so stay sharp people... I for one will be quietly marketing in the future.
Guess it was a while ago but I can't remember how they did it. That's Tom Hanks for you.
As a result here's my executive summary:
- oxygen tank exploded
- 2 of 3 fuel cells lost
"Houston, we've had a problem."
- Ed Smylie, engineer at home watching TV disaster rushes into the centre
- O2 buildup fixable with lithium hydroxide canisters to help CO2 buildup...
but some of the backup square canisters were not compatible with the round openings in the lunar module
"If you saw the movie (`Apollo 13'), it wasn't like that," Smylie said, adding there wasn't any hollering and screaming. "Everything is pretty calm, cool and collected in our business."
- used duck-tape to convert the backup square canisters to fit the round lunar module fittings
- this allowed the astronauts to breath just that little bit longer
Linguistic genius!
I'm sorry I got my names confused! Sorry about that! Please mod it down and hide it!
We used to have 2 of the first Psion PDAs, you could program with OPL on the move (amazing back then).
For some reason I thought PalmOS replaced EPOC.
However, to know that Symbian is the latest version of the OS on those Psion PDAs we had in the 80's (I think) is just as suprising!
here you are, enjoy, the only people on it don't seem to know much (i.e. people like me):e xplo
http://www-csg.lbl.gov/mailman/listinfo/vxw
Crudely:
> 2mb RAM = vxworks
2-6mb RAM = NetBSD
>4mb RAM = Linux
Symbian? Symbian's a bit crazy. I feel that in order to have progress things need to die. Symbian is actually a rehash of PalmOS; very old. WinCE is actually ok, but again, it's just a rehash and you're not free. Linux is okay if you got the resources, convienient for porting. vxworks is a nightmare, check out the vx-explode mailing list!! It's like they don't want you to know anything about it since important things run on it... like cable modems...
Personally I find NetBSD idealolgically my favorite but I'm not well versed enough on the technicalities.
30mins is pretty good you know
I'm fine with it, it's just that it's taking longer and longer, even just reading the help text.
If there was something to aid selection of those essential options needed to boot the kernel, that would be great :)
Playing back lectures while in bed just before sleep probably saved me failing my degree.
For consealment put the recording device in the leg of your boot; hence the phrase.
You shouldn't have to ask for permission, that seems strange because it is. It's already in your head. But I do understand the territorial pissings of the modern word, yes.
Takes me about half an hour to go through config and that's someone who knows what most options are... and what hardware I have.
Obviously you have to do things properly by hand, but this is taking longer and longer.
Start by coping over your old config, that will help.
But never-the-less, every new option has to be looked at, considered and then selcted or deselected. Sometimes it can be a hard decision; you might have a parrallel port but will you actually use it? "hmm, well I suppose a friend might just bring round a 486 laptop with a laplink cable.."
I wanted to send you a message but I guess this will have to do. Mind if I ask what product you used to get rid of Norton? (we've been doing it manually)
hmm, Symantec... the poeple who brought us Norton. I just spent all day removing Norton2003 from 4 customers Winblowz PCs, after InCD incompatibilities and autoupdate trojan hijacking. Personally I'd reinstall, well, makes me money.
The Symantec name has been blown from my view in these last few days.
At least he looks a bit more interesting than the current one:
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Mu! damnit! http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MuAnswer
You know, I'd stick my neck out here and say NO! It depends! This is all about default settings.
What IS Windows? What IS linux?
Is Windows a machine ruinning an old copy of IE with a single auto-login user running as admin?, hundereds of services running from the likes of nvidia and ATi, - to most minds the assumption is yes.
And I know for one my linux box isn't setup as tight as it could be because I know how much hassle that entails. The process running this browser has enough permissions to wipe out my data drive; I like to save pictures there after all. What am I to do - setup sudo to another user and script it's launch? - how many do that? Do you?
Is linux a 2.6 kernel and Firefox?
This is all very silly.
One day something will pop up that will hijack Firefox or Konqueror (more likely as less frequently updated) just the same as IE. If it has less of an effect it'll be due to linux users keeping an eye on things.
Love it, but it doesn't seem to keep time very well, which is a shame
All connections should share like this automatically. I see it as essential. And so did the TCP/IP people when they drafted v6.
,
Yes, you can play with htb.init or various scripts or even buy a ready made front end in your hardware router like my Asus WL500-G, or Linksys WRT range, or even checkout bandwidtharbitrator.com
but all these thing require your invervention, named to specify your up & down speeds accurately and in the right units. Not everyone can answer that.
Really it should be automatic - if we ping a site and it's way beyond what it should be then we have a problem. It's rare that we want latency in any event.
Worse still ports or IPs have to be prioritised so you have to find out what ports are involved - all should be balanced as required.
I feel there is a common setup that can catered for - the home user, one internet NAT box with various boxes behind it. Most people on here could benefit from something to help that setup.
Finally there's useability. I personally haven't found anything quite as good as Netlimiter on Windows ( netlimiter.com ) on that front.
I agree, mc / midnight commander isn't enough.
It's a design thing that requires a rare holistic view.
The best candidate to watch is osX but I'm not familiar with that
Security and useability are closely tied.
If a lock is so hard to use it never gets used it's a bad lock.
People tend to have abilities that polarise into 2 camps:
- `empathy` with code
- empathy with people
So the people who code best aren't so good at getting into the mind of the numbskull.
The problem isn't quite as bad as you think.
Non-coders, this is where you come in.
I have often noticed things in OSS that can be improved and as someone who doesn't enjoy coding I find I'm really good at noticing useability problems.
I sometimes put in requests but I feel I'm stepping out of line because I don't code. In fact it seems rude to use someones gift to you and then critique it. Value the views of the non-coder.
- so you have to be massively diplomatic and even then your suggestions will probably be ignored because...
- there's little incentive for OSS to work well for non coders.
If anyone can think of ways to improve these problems please get in touch. Computers are annoying enough.
This is the only way to battle warez; sell access to a website rather than code itself.
As someone who is aware of what the world would be like without warez I've never shared my observation.
It seems another person has relised the evolution.
However, it opens up the possibility of a more sane world regarding IP.
I doubt that world will be relised.
2) To live; because it may become a NICER place to be
3) To survive; because it may become the ONLY place to be
It does make sense after a double take
My i2p node is up and if I could so would freenet.
Perhaps mod offtopic if you feel the plug isn't worthy.
Not that either of these technologies can do much against 10 years though...
In Soviet Russia, freedom controls you?
There's got to be one, or was that the idea of posting the article; to have a load of slashdotters desperately trying to come up with one.