It's an easy problem to solve. Have the ad-blocker "ping" every URL that is on your blocked list. This will cause the site you are on to receive credit and get paid.
Better explaination. I surf xyz.com which has links to ad4crap.com and urdata.com. If you send the correct url with the forward from (what is the name of the tag?) tag in the header, xyz.com will get credit for a referal. The ad blocker can just throw away any results from the URL. here is another idea, for people who do want to address this issue:
the ad blockers may have an option , so that the browser will download the data and render it "offscreen"
let me also share
this record (announced also 24 may in
in this Italian newspaper):
the
Ixem team
of "Politecnico" in Torino has set up
a 20megabit connection from "Capanna Margherita" (Mount Blanc, 4556m of altitude) with "Pian Cavallaro" (a point on the
mountain range that divides Tuscany from Emilia-Romagna); the two points were 295km apart; the hw used was a 386 CPU running Linux;
the network is Hiperlan type 2 and Wi-Max 802.16 (EIRP regulatory requirements limited to 30 dBm is satisfied).
They have also set
a webcam in Capanna Margherita,
that is accessed thru the link
I definitively agree : open it and wash only the plastic part ie keys and outside case. I have done that from time to time - and the results are awesome. And , BTW, you DO need soap to clean it (contrary to what a later post claims) ; but if you are washing only the plastic and keeping the electronics dry, then it is perfectly fine.
Just use tar. Tar has the -t (test archive) and the -z (compress). Using compression by nature has checksums.
When you write to a medium that may fail sometimes in the future, you never want to use compression. There is a good reason for that (and I learnt it the hard way). If you write some gigabytes of data using tar to the medium, and some sectors of it afterwards get damaged.... if you did not use compression, then tar will complain a lot and try to resync and in the end you should only lose some files... but if you use -z or -j then your data are (almost) dead: after you encounter the damaged part, it will be much more difficult to get anything useful out of the backup. The worst choice of all is -j : I once got a damaged tar.bz2 , I tried to use bzip2recover, but what I got from bzip2recover was still meaningless to tar , so I could get only few files out of the original data. CD and DVD media have many correction methods, and those already provide sorta checksums in them; so if they get damaged, they will return errors, and not some random data (usually). If your media does not embed checksums, and/or you want to be absolutely sure that you are getting correct data out of your backup media, then you may run md5sum on it; and I mean, md5sum every single file, and also the whole archive; and , save multiple copies of those md5 (even on printed paper).
After you create your backup using tar -cvzf options, you can test that same archive using the tar -tvzf options. You will definiately know if you get errors.
Testing the archive is always a good idea; but this is only telling you that the data are backupped OK now; then you have to worry
about the future...
according to this wiki, LSB-compliant Init Script should document runtime dependencies.... and so it should be easy to use a parallelized bootup system; at a certain point, it was even planned for the new Debian Etch ; checking in my/etc/init.d, I see that many scripts in Debian Etch indeed do sport the LSB header; but I cannot tell if that goal was achieved - last time I tried , I apt-get installed runit, and then my box did not boot.
The funny fact is that I did not see, in the posted article, any reference to this fact: according to that article, seems that, whatever parallel-boot-rc system you use, you need to manually write down all init-scripts dependencies... thus effectively reinventing the wheel. Or am I wrong? is any of those gizmos out there capable of understanding the LSB-mandated dependencies?
Maybe it does pay off that I watch almost no TV...
If you compensate your no-TV-watching by that same amount
of/. hanging around...
I have bad news for you,/. is as much as detrimental to your mental health.
Keyboard typing is not in the list of
exercises that will be keep your memory fit
(go check
yourself).
Only problem with the refreshing of the repositories is that each time you refresh them, you need to download 5 MBs of data (that's with the restricted and multiverse repositories enabled)
That is peculiar. APT introduced pdiff downloading long ago (in "experimental", in Debian);
then in May 2006, in version 0.6.44, apt pdiff support from experimental was merged in the unstable version: so this feature will be available in Debian Etch. If Ubuntu Feisty is shipping a reasonably new APT, all they need to do is to start generating the appropriate pdiffs in their repository.... and no more 5MBs download.
ODF is an XML-based dump of the internal data structures of OpenOffice, while OOXML is an XML-based dump of the internal data structures of Microsoft Office.
In 2006, a year or so after ODF entered the fray, Microsoft submitted OOXML to the standardization process. Are we seeing a pattern here? Is Microsoft undermining standards by submitting them? Could it be that it wants both ODF and OOXML to fail?
so Wium proposes to build a new standard from scratch , starting from HTML and CSS ; but, recognizing that they would not cover all "Office" documents, he goes to saying
Additional semantics (say, formulas in spreadsheets) can be encoded as attributes, as do microformats, and CSS 3 offers advanced features for printing (e.g., footnotes and header and footers).
My thoughts:
Suppose MicroSoft were to listen to Wium (which they wont).
Guess what ? Those additional fields containing formulas (and anything else that makes {MS,Open}Office much
more useful than HTML) again would be just
an XML-based dump of the internal data structures of so and so.
I dont like , more in general this article. Wium is saying that MicroSoft is proposing
OOXML to kill ODF ; and at the same time he is proposing to kill ODF in favour of a non-existent
extension of HTML+CSS.
It is like the guy saying : "I dont like the power plugs in my new house, lets tear the house down and rebuild it" , and at the same time saying "why
are they taking so much time to build the house?". Suppose MicroSoft would
use arguments as those by Wium to convince ISO to reject ODF and then start a new draft based on HTML,
drafted in cooperation between MicroSoft and other partners (including OpenOffice).
That would really kill any hope of an ISO standard for "office" documents.
Debian solves this in a very simple way : divide the archive in main , contrib and non-free part. Non-free contains stuff that Debian has at least permission to repackage and redistribute from upstream sources
(more info here).
Redistributors of Debian choose to redistribute whichever best fits their needs and/or moral values.
And users alike.
So you get both the cake and the fat boy. I fail to see in Alan Cox argument why Fedora could not do the same.
"Free software" is supposed to be "Free" (free as in beer, as in speech, as in "gratis" and as in "libre").
If FSF finds a loophole in GPL (whichever version) and then uses GPL software to punish Novell for its dealing with Microsoft, then I do not see GPL to be As Free As It Should.
If FSF starts using heavy tactics to push its political agenda, actively damaging people who sign deals that in a future may possibly be used in some evil ways...
then this sounds too political to me.
If the FSF can actually do this and if they go through with it, this is going to be very BAD for busines adoption Linux
It is not just business. I use Free Software because I like it being free; and I write and improve it
because I want it to be helpful to others as well.
If my Free Software
can be used by a third party (in this case FSF) to punish a fourth party on (mostly) political grounds...
well this is disheartening to say the least.
Even if they find a legally valid way to do it, they are
at the same time negating the very essence of Free Software.
I want Free Software to smell free.
The upstream article reports
"The community of people wants to do anything they can to interfere with this deal and all deals like it. They have every reason to be deeply concerned that this is the beginning of a significant patent aggression by Microsoft," Eben Moglen, the Foundation's general counsel, said on Friday.
hey, FSF, this is a huge community... try, once in a while, to acknowledge this basic fact:
not everybody shares your radical views.
I in general appreciate the actions of FSF in most cases; but if FSF goes further this way,
then I do not identify with Eben's community of people.
To conclude let me comment on what
Stallman once said: "We are not here to give users what they want, we are here to spread freedom".
You teach freedom by practicing it, not by punishing others.
"Freedom" is not something that can be coerced.
as a matter of fact, the original article nowhere says
Unplugging the power cable. They say
Unplugging and re-plugging the HDMI cable was our temporary workaround Maybe the editor should edit the post
if I had points, I would mod parent up.
The whole idea that this rail gun could replace Tomahawk missiles is braindead. A projectile launched by this rail could be affective only on very hard targets, where it can release its kinetic energy into destructive power. You may destroy a tank, or a bunker, or the engine of a ship, with it; but it would not be effective, lets say, on a large factory. Lets say the projectile is filled with steel balls; in the best scenario, it would go thru the ceiling, drill a huge crater in the ground inside, and the ball and all the debris would explode from the impact point and break havoc some machinery (and kill some people); in the worst case, it may simply cut thru the building as a hot knife in butter, and just destroy two holes in the walls. To destroy a factory, you need a Tomahawk missiles , or anything with explosives, releasing gigajouls of chemical power, that produce a shock wave, that make walls collapsing, and sets everything to fire.
95 miles altitude? reenter from out of atmosphere ? while carrying complex electronic for GPS navigation?
Most movies and documentaries attest that, when reentering from space, the communication between NASA and the space crew is off , due to excessive heat on the vehicle; and that gizmo is supposed to navigate out of GPS, while free falling at the highest possible speed (to maximize impact damage)?
I hope they did their math correctly, and
computed the heat of air friction correctly...
otherwise the navy will sport the first artificial falling star generator in history
I live in south Louisiana and I've been through several hurricanes, and every time, the day after is VERY sunny and bright. What about the night after?
As the first high-definition format to reach the U.S. market with support on Windows Vista, HD DVD will offer consumers unrivaled picture and sound quality, extending the entertainment experience far beyond that of today's DVDs. HD DVD will offer new levels of interactivity and the ability to stream HD DVD movies across a home network or enjoy them on portable video devices...
I happen to use a "Telecom Italia" (Alice) ADSL .
I heard about the DNS vs OpenDNS buzz; who didnt?
googling around for
telecom italia dns opendns
there are thousands of blogs and forums saying that "Telecom Italia" users benefit from
using OpenDNS...
At a certain point, even major Italian newspapers
(as "Repubblica"
here)
started spreading that info; and
OpenDNS
even thanked them!
Well.. here are my 2eurocents:
when I download huge files (usually,.debs from a Debian mirror), I get my 80Kb/sec download speed, as I paid for; and I always did , even when in mid Dec everybody was crying wolf
I dont usually use P2P or BitTorrent; but AFAIK P2P and Bittorrent do not use DNS,
they go by IP, so I do not understand how DNS or OpenDNS would ever make a difference
and I do not understand how Telecom can use a faked DNS problem to cover a bandwidth problem,
and, no , I do not use OpenDNS... I use the plain DNS that Telecom is telling me to use thru pppd
Sometimes I came to think that the whole problem may be some hidden bug in Windows DNS caching...
Reminds me of "During the space race, the Americans spent millions of dollars developing a pen that could function reliably in micro gravity conditions. The Russians used a pencil."
I remember a different story: the Russian used a standard pen; the Americans had assumed that gravity was needed to operate a standard pen, but this is not true. Test: hold a paper sheet on a door, and write with your favorite pen, keeping it flat.
I was hooked up to
widelands
for 3 days in a row:
the latest release
build9half
is playable and fun; moreover
the SVN version
has a lot of enhancements
(but unfortunately, last time
I tried it , it crashed when saving games:-( )
Slashdot Mirror
Better explaination. I surf xyz.com which has links to ad4crap.com and urdata.com. If you send the correct url with the forward from (what is the name of the tag?) tag in the header, xyz.com will get credit for a referal. The ad blocker can just throw away any results from the URL. here is another idea, for people who do want to address this issue: the ad blockers may have an option , so that the browser will download the data and render it "offscreen"
let me also share this record (announced also 24 may in in this Italian newspaper): the Ixem team of "Politecnico" in Torino has set up a 20megabit connection from "Capanna Margherita" (Mount Blanc, 4556m of altitude) with "Pian Cavallaro" (a point on the mountain range that divides Tuscany from Emilia-Romagna); the two points were 295km apart; the hw used was a 386 CPU running Linux; the network is Hiperlan type 2 and Wi-Max 802.16 (EIRP regulatory requirements limited to 30 dBm is satisfied). They have also set a webcam in Capanna Margherita, that is accessed thru the link
Kid puke ! BLEAH ! I would that only for a veeeerry expensive keyboard!
I definitively agree : open it and wash only the plastic part ie keys and outside case. I have done that from time to time - and the results are awesome. And , BTW, you DO need soap to clean it (contrary to what a later post claims) ; but if you are washing only the plastic and keeping the electronics dry, then it is perfectly fine.
according to this wiki, LSB-compliant Init Script should document runtime dependencies.... and so it should be easy to use a parallelized bootup system; at a certain point, it was even planned for the new Debian Etch ; checking in my /etc/init.d, I see that many scripts in Debian Etch indeed do sport the LSB header; but I cannot tell if that goal was achieved - last time I tried , I apt-get installed runit, and then my box did not boot.
... thus effectively reinventing the wheel. Or am I wrong? is any of those gizmos out there capable of understanding the LSB-mandated dependencies?
The funny fact is that I did not see, in the posted article, any reference to this fact: according to that article, seems that, whatever parallel-boot-rc system you use, you need to manually write down all init-scripts dependencies
Keyboard typing is not in the list of exercises that will be keep your memory fit (go check yourself).
Debian solves this in a very simple way : divide the archive in main , contrib and non-free part. Non-free contains stuff that Debian has at least permission to repackage and redistribute from upstream sources (more info here). Redistributors of Debian choose to redistribute whichever best fits their needs and/or moral values. And users alike. So you get both the cake and the fat boy. I fail to see in Alan Cox argument why Fedora could not do the same.
"Free software" is supposed to be "Free" (free as in beer, as in speech, as in "gratis" and as in "libre").
If FSF finds a loophole in GPL (whichever version) and then uses GPL software to punish Novell for its dealing with Microsoft, then I do not see GPL to be As Free As It Should.
If FSF starts using heavy tactics to push its political agenda, actively damaging people who sign deals that in a future may possibly be used in some evil ways... then this sounds too political to me.
It is not just business. I use Free Software because I like it being free; and I write and improve it because I want it to be helpful to others as well. If my Free Software can be used by a third party (in this case FSF) to punish a fourth party on (mostly) political grounds... well this is disheartening to say the least. Even if they find a legally valid way to do it, they are at the same time negating the very essence of Free Software.I want Free Software to smell free.
The upstream article reports
hey, FSF, this is a huge community... try, once in a while, to acknowledge this basic fact: not everybody shares your radical views.I in general appreciate the actions of FSF in most cases; but if FSF goes further this way, then I do not identify with Eben's community of people.
To conclude let me comment on what
You teach freedom by practicing it, not by punishing others. "Freedom" is not something that can be coerced.as a matter of fact, the original article nowhere says Unplugging the power cable. They say Unplugging and re-plugging the HDMI cable was our temporary workaround
Maybe the editor should edit the post
if I had points, I would mod parent up.
The whole idea that this rail gun could replace Tomahawk missiles is braindead. A projectile launched by this rail could be affective only on very hard targets, where it can release its kinetic energy into destructive power. You may destroy a tank, or a bunker, or the engine of a ship, with it; but it would not be effective, lets say, on a large factory. Lets say the projectile is filled with steel balls; in the best scenario, it would go thru the ceiling, drill a huge crater in the ground inside, and the ball and all the debris would explode from the impact point and break havoc some machinery (and kill some people); in the worst case, it may simply cut thru the building as a hot knife in butter, and just destroy two holes in the walls. To destroy a factory, you need a Tomahawk missiles , or anything with explosives, releasing gigajouls of chemical power, that produce a shock wave, that make walls collapsing, and sets everything to fire.
95 miles altitude? reenter from out of atmosphere ? while carrying complex electronic for GPS navigation?
Most movies and documentaries attest that, when reentering from space, the communication between NASA and the space crew is off , due to excessive heat on the vehicle; and that gizmo is supposed to navigate out of GPS, while free falling at the highest possible speed (to maximize impact damage)?
I hope they did their math correctly, and computed the heat of air friction correctly... otherwise the navy will sport the first artificial falling star generator in history
sure... but who is paying for it?
(CES, Las Vegas, Jan 2006)
-
Vista will receive a cold welcome from the
user market, due to intrusive DRM
-
half of my 2007 preditions will be wrong
Hey, I think I will get at least 50% predictions correct!I heard about the DNS vs OpenDNS buzz; who didnt? googling around for telecom italia dns opendns there are thousands of blogs and forums saying that "Telecom Italia" users benefit from using OpenDNS...
At a certain point, even major Italian newspapers (as "Repubblica" here) started spreading that info; and OpenDNS even thanked them!
Well.. here are my 2eurocents:
-
when I download huge files (usually,
.debs from a Debian mirror), I get my 80Kb/sec download speed, as I paid for; and I always did , even when in mid Dec everybody was crying wolf
-
I dont usually use P2P or BitTorrent; but AFAIK P2P and Bittorrent do not use DNS,
they go by IP, so I do not understand how DNS or OpenDNS would ever make a difference
-
and I do not understand how Telecom can use a faked DNS problem to cover a bandwidth problem,
- and, no , I do not use OpenDNS... I use the plain DNS that Telecom is telling me to use thru pppd
Sometimes I came to think that the whole problem may be some hidden bug in Windows DNS caching...I remember a different story: the Russian used a standard pen; the Americans had assumed that gravity was needed to operate a standard pen, but this is not true. Test: hold a paper sheet on a door, and write with your favorite pen, keeping it flat.
I was hooked up to widelands for 3 days in a row: the latest release build9half is playable and fun; moreover the SVN version has a lot of enhancements (but unfortunately, last time I tried it , it crashed when saving games :-( )
Debian Etch will be released quando paratus est.