Sorry! I moderated you to "flamebait" instead of "funny" (just pressed the f key after tabbing to the drop-down box). I hope this post will remove the moderation.:)
Cellphone jammers usually block the radio frequencies used by cell phones, so that you can't make any calls. This won't stop you from taking pictures with your phone and saving them in the phone's memory, tough.
Good points, but I'd try them in a different (reversed) order.. You'd be surprised how informative some Fine (that's what the F in RTFM is for, by the way) manuals are. If you don't buy boxed distros or don't download the documantation cd's, you can still browse most manuals at the website of your favourite distributions. As many have pointed out, LDP is a fine resource as well.
..create a "complete" multimedia center, with open source software. It's based on RedHat Linux, and features DVD playback, MP3/OGG (with an ingenious ranking system), tv-recording (time-lapse viewing coming soon) with automatical importing of program guides from the web, a picture browser, games (including MAME!).
It's also being equiped with communication features such as e-mail checking, a phone answering machine, and even a who's-rang-the-door feature.
Can't the editors remove the link+name of the spammer? I think it's best we don't give them any hits, as this will encourage them to continue their nasty business.
Altough it would be nice to slashdot them off the net, off course:)
There *is* a Linux-version of RealOne available. I don't know if it works with the superpass, but it sure plays all the videos/songs I need streamed. Works like a charm on my RedHat 8.0 laptop. Also, instead of having to dig through the whole Real website to find a "free" version, nowadays they just link to the installation binary right from the front page. (And that is of course http://www.real.com)
www.google.com = 216.239.33.101
The cache server = 216.239.33.100
Couldn't they have just blocked the cache server?
Google =/= 2 machines!
When I ping google I get: PING www.google.com (216.239.53.101)... because they point you to the server farm which is closest to you (or less crowded at the moment).. The IPs change constantly, so it isn't that easy for them to block "the cache server".
My manual translation.. a bit rough, but should be readable.. Comments in italic
July 18th 2002 The Amsterdam court today ruled in the case of Abfab vs XS4ALL and 4 customers. The court destroys the ruling which forbade Abfab to send unsollicited commercial e-mail (spam) to customers of XS4ALL, with a punishment of 50 EURO per message (that had to be paid of Abfab did send spam).
The court does leave the possibility to sue spammers in general if they cause severe interference ; "In the case of the type of spam which causes interference, the proportionality-claims (?) are in place and...not important, tells that really annoying spam can be forbidden or something)"
The court extensively talks about the different grounds upon which XS4ALL had based the anti-spam ruling, namely the telecommunication-law, privacy- and (network ) ownership rights. Unfortunately the court concludes that none of these grounds justify the stop of Abfabs very -according to XS4ALL- unwanted behaviour.
XS4ALL really doesn't agree with the Court's finding that the breach of privacy of the adressees is relatively small.
In a hard to understand point of view the Court concludes that an e-mail address is less of a a public given than a (mail-)address, and thus surely has a more confidential character, but that the publication of it on the other hand would cause less damage than a real address, because you can easily and at low costs change e-mail adresses. In the eyes of XS4ALL the Court hereby shows little insight in the value netizens attribute to the conservation (transl?) of their e-mail address as a digital identity. Especially now when lots of netizens are moving to permanent, broad-band internet, costs of changing address rise.
XS4ALL is disappointed about this negative ruling and is asking advise about the possibility to go to the supreme court. The new European Guideline for Privacy in the Telecom-sector explicitely forbids interference of internet-work with unwanted bulkmail. The European Counsil has accepted the final text and the publication of in the official publication of the EU is therefor expected soon. After that the member states have got 15 months to implement the prohibition. The Court acknowledges this and says: "The problem of XS4ALL and [the 4 customers] will fade, as the situation looks now, away automatically." XS4ALL had hoped wholehartedly to immediately help her customers avoid this kind of interference from Abfab and other similar digital marketing companies, but can now only help customers installing technical spam filters to maintain access to "serious" communication.
Game console, PVR,... sounds like Digital Audio & Video Entertainment and Digital Interactive Networked Amusement to me... or in short DAVEDINA, a project doing all of this under Linux.. Check it out, it's cool, it's almost apt-gettable and it's free (beer/speech)!
If you really want KaZaA, but without the spyware, you should checkout KaZaA lite (kazaalite.com).
Be sure not to allow KaZaA to update itself (like now with the 1.7 version), as it will install the Sharman Networks version with said spyware.
A nice p2p-program without spyware is WinMX, too bad there are no Linux clients for it. (for their own network, that is.. Opennap clients enough.)
...and I think it's quite promising, altough at the moment I still achieve higher speeds using T9 predictive text-input (on my GSM mobile phone). Whith some improvements I really see a future for it. Certainly the eye-tracking method is intresting, eg. for paralised people (instead of a stick on a helmet to press keyboard buttons).
Telenet indeed is known to limit bandwith on port 1214 (Fasttrack (old morpheus, grokster, KaZaA))... But the are also known for their network which is not equipped for this kind of real bandwidth-use: their strategy is just to create a huge, mandatory proxy, limiting the need for "outside bandwidth" (or so they think), allowing them to cut some costs. Of course, everyone in Belgium knows Telenet sucks regardless of that...
Correct version:
Let's be honest. Your average sysadmin doesn't want to have to deal with package management and keeping a system up-to-date.
This is why I use Debian. Being able to just type apt-get update; apt-get upgrade, and all the packages and dependencies are upgraded, security patches applied etc, is just fantastic.
It indeed is if you're managing +/- 10 systems.
I do not like to ssh into all the 50+ systems in our datacenter and type apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. I do however like to login to RHN and choose to perform this and that update I care about on all of them automagically...
Let's be honest. Your average sysadmin doesn't want to have to deal with package management and keeping a system up-to-date.
This is why I use Debian. Being able to just type apt-get update; apt-get upgrade, and all the packages and dependencies are upgraded, security patches applied etc, is just fantastic.
It indeed is if you're managing I do not like to ssh into all the 50+ systems in our datacenter and type apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. I do however like to login to RHN and choose to perform this and that update I care about on all of them automagically...
First of all: you don't want "Flash-only" sites... They are unprintable,
Really? That's funny, I can print them just fine.
Technically they are, but some (many) flash sites are designed in such a way that you have to scroll the text in a really small box, making prints without killing a forest-near-you a difficult task.
Look at http://www.donna.be/, click on "Spitsnieuws" (pop news), and then on an item and you'll see what I mean. (By the way, that's the site of Belgiums biggest radio station; I think it sucks big time)
not viewable in lynx/links
And exactly what percentage of users out there use it?.001%,.000001%?
Ever heard of things like blindness?
unusable over slow connections
Don't blame the tool when you should blame the user of the tool.
Sometimes the user has got no choice... Don't blame the user when you should blame the designer.
- First of all: you don't want "Flash-only" sites... They are unprintable, not viewable in lynx/links, unusable over slow connections, and generally don't give an added value.
- You also don't want sites that do not display well (or even worse, crash) in some browsers. I don't say you have to support every netscape version up to 0.7, but there really *is* a world apart from Internet Explorer 6.
- Make it fast. If you really want to cram your site full of gizmos, be sure to provide an alternative version for people who haven't got an OC30 directly connected to your datacenter.
- Do not annoy your visitors. That means: No pop-whatevers, no "If this banner is flashing, you've won a monkey to punch"-type of stuff. I also don't like pages with sounds, like the "cameron diaz ad" on kazaa, or even the embedded mp3 on mobistar's page. (Mobistar is a Belgian GSM operator).
One thing I think is really cool is the site of URGent, a Belgian student radio, where you can choose between several designs. The content is drawn from a database, and the designs range from a "lynx" theme to heavy graphics. (And I've heard there's a "kde-like" theme under way)...
I used it a few times, mostly to play the.asf video of Win98 crashing for Bill Gates at a computer conference.. ..which was a fake crash, probably to get some press (which it did) under the credo "bad publicity is worse than no publicity"...
The BSOD appeared on the screen with a nice powerpoint "wipe in" transition...
Both package formats have their (dis)advantages. Standardizing on RPM does not mean you can't get the advantages of apt, however: Apt has been adapted for RPM. It's used in Connectiva.
More on apt-rpm at this site, or at a search engine near you.
I hope that with the wider adoption of LSB and FHS standards it will be easier for both users and programmers to use "cross-distro" packages. Nowadays too many packages are wrongly linked to libraries, making them hard to use on other distros than the ones they were made for.
Try to install a SuSE package on a RedHat system and you'll know what I'm talking about.
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One somewhat expensive way they can distribute their players is glue them in portable dvd viewers and distribute those.
Epic Records did it with the latest Pearl Jam and Tori Amos records: they distributed discmans with the cd glued in.
I don't know about Kent, but on a clear day you can see the rocks of Dover just fine from Cap Griz Nez.
> One major problem: CD-ROM drives are waay slower than harddisks.
> Remember when people used to do "minimal" installs of games to harddisk and have > most of the game content on the CD?
> Doesn't really happen much anymore because the loading times are unbearable.
does it really?
However, I trusted there skills, and respected there experience
Jeez... People, it's really not that difficult!
There: not here, adverb - at or in that place
Their: not mine, possessive form of they
They're: they are
Your: possessive form of you
You're: You are
Its: possessive form of it
It's: It is
If you want to exercise, go here.
Happy spelling!
Sorry! I moderated you to "flamebait" instead of "funny" (just pressed the f key after tabbing to the drop-down box). I hope this post will remove the moderation. :)
(keep in mind that I am not a native English speaker, my 'Dutch' speed is usually several WPM higher)
Test duration: 2 min
Test text: Fishing in Finland
Speed unit: WPM
Result: Accuracy: 99%
Net score: 96 WPM
Cellphone jammers usually block the radio frequencies used by cell phones, so that you can't make any calls. This won't stop you from taking pictures with your phone and saving them in the phone's memory, tough.
I always tough it was the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as it says on the website.
(yes, I know.. offtopic bitching)
Good points, but I'd try them in a different (reversed) order.. You'd be surprised how informative some Fine (that's what the F in RTFM is for, by the way) manuals are. If you don't buy boxed distros or don't download the documantation cd's, you can still browse most manuals at the website of your favourite distributions. As many have pointed out, LDP is a fine resource as well.
Just my 0.02 of course...
It's also being equiped with communication features such as e-mail checking, a phone answering machine, and even a who's-rang-the-door feature.
Check it all out at their website, davedina.apestaart.org, and join their mailinglist!
You can also come hang out at #davedina on Freenode
Altough it would be nice to slashdot them off the net, off course :)
There *is* a Linux-version of RealOne available. I don't know if it works with the superpass, but it sure plays all the videos/songs I need streamed. Works like a charm on my RedHat 8.0 laptop. Also, instead of having to dig through the whole Real website to find a "free" version, nowadays they just link to the installation binary right from the front page. (And that is of course http://www.real.com)
www.google.com = 216.239.33.101 The cache server = 216.239.33.100
Couldn't they have just blocked the cache server?
Google =/= 2 machines!
When I ping google I get: PING www.google.com (216.239.53.101)... because they point you to the server farm which is closest to you (or less crowded at the moment).. The IPs change constantly, so it isn't that easy for them to block "the cache server".
An interesting talk on this topic by a Google engineer can be found here: http://technetcast.com/tnc_play_stream.html?stream _id=420 (Speech from Atlanta Linux Showcase 2000 I believe) and here: http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_play_stream.html?st ream_id=421 (Q&A session after the speech)
You just made my day, thanks!
July 18th 2002 ...not important, tells that really annoying spam can be forbidden or something)"
The Amsterdam court today ruled in the case of Abfab vs XS4ALL and 4 customers. The court destroys the ruling which forbade Abfab to send unsollicited commercial e-mail (spam) to customers of XS4ALL, with a punishment of 50 EURO per message (that had to be paid of Abfab did send spam). The court does leave the possibility to sue spammers in general if they cause severe interference ; "In the case of the type of spam which causes interference, the proportionality-claims (?) are in place and
The court extensively talks about the different grounds upon which XS4ALL had based the anti-spam ruling, namely the telecommunication-law, privacy- and (network ) ownership rights. Unfortunately the court concludes that none of these grounds justify the stop of Abfabs very -according to XS4ALL- unwanted behaviour.
XS4ALL really doesn't agree with the Court's finding that the breach of privacy of the adressees is relatively small. In a hard to understand point of view the Court concludes that an e-mail address is less of a a public given than a (mail-)address, and thus surely has a more confidential character, but that the publication of it on the other hand would cause less damage than a real address, because you can easily and at low costs change e-mail adresses. In the eyes of XS4ALL the Court hereby shows little insight in the value netizens attribute to the conservation (transl?) of their e-mail address as a digital identity. Especially now when lots of netizens are moving to permanent, broad-band internet, costs of changing address rise.
XS4ALL is disappointed about this negative ruling and is asking advise about the possibility to go to the supreme court. The new European Guideline for Privacy in the Telecom-sector explicitely forbids interference of internet-work with unwanted bulkmail. The European Counsil has accepted the final text and the publication of in the official publication of the EU is therefor expected soon. After that the member states have got 15 months to implement the prohibition. The Court acknowledges this and says: "The problem of XS4ALL and [the 4 customers] will fade, as the situation looks now, away automatically." XS4ALL had hoped wholehartedly to immediately help her customers avoid this kind of interference from Abfab and other similar digital marketing companies, but can now only help customers installing technical spam filters to maintain access to "serious" communication.
Game console, PVR, ... sounds like Digital Audio & Video Entertainment and Digital Interactive Networked Amusement to me... or in short DAVEDINA, a project doing all of this under Linux.. Check it out, it's cool, it's almost apt-gettable and it's free (beer/speech)!
If you really want KaZaA, but without the spyware, you should checkout KaZaA lite (kazaalite.com). Be sure not to allow KaZaA to update itself (like now with the 1.7 version), as it will install the Sharman Networks version with said spyware. A nice p2p-program without spyware is WinMX, too bad there are no Linux clients for it. (for their own network, that is.. Opennap clients enough.)
...and I think it's quite promising, altough at the moment I still achieve higher speeds using T9 predictive text-input (on my GSM mobile phone). Whith some improvements I really see a future for it. Certainly the eye-tracking method is intresting, eg. for paralised people (instead of a stick on a helmet to press keyboard buttons).
Telenet indeed is known to limit bandwith on port 1214 (Fasttrack (old morpheus, grokster, KaZaA))... But the are also known for their network which is not equipped for this kind of real bandwidth-use: their strategy is just to create a huge, mandatory proxy, limiting the need for "outside bandwidth" (or so they think), allowing them to cut some costs.
Of course, everyone in Belgium knows Telenet sucks regardless of that...
Correct version:
Let's be honest. Your average sysadmin doesn't want to have to deal with package management and keeping a system up-to-date.
This is why I use Debian. Being able to just type apt-get update; apt-get upgrade, and all the packages and dependencies are upgraded, security patches applied etc, is just fantastic. It indeed is if you're managing +/- 10 systems.
I do not like to ssh into all the 50+ systems in our datacenter and type apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. I do however like to login to RHN and choose to perform this and that update I care about on all of them automagically...
This is why I use Debian. Being able to just type apt-get update; apt-get upgrade, and all the packages and dependencies are upgraded, security patches applied etc, is just fantastic.
It indeed is if you're managing
I do not like to ssh into all the 50+ systems in our datacenter and type apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. I do however like to login to RHN and choose to perform this and that update I care about on all of them automagically...
Really? That's funny, I can print them just fine.
Technically they are, but some (many) flash sites are designed in such a way that you have to scroll the text in a really small box, making prints without killing a forest-near-you a difficult task.
Look at http://www.donna.be/, click on "Spitsnieuws" (pop news), and then on an item and you'll see what I mean. (By the way, that's the site of Belgiums biggest radio station; I think it sucks big time)
not viewable in lynx/links
And exactly what percentage of users out there use it? .001%, .000001%?
Ever heard of things like blindness?
unusable over slow connections
Don't blame the tool when you should blame the user of the tool.
Sometimes the user has got no choice... Don't blame the user when you should blame the designer.
- You also don't want sites that do not display well (or even worse, crash) in some browsers. I don't say you have to support every netscape version up to 0.7, but there really *is* a world apart from Internet Explorer 6.
- Make it fast. If you really want to cram your site full of gizmos, be sure to provide an alternative version for people who haven't got an OC30 directly connected to your datacenter.
- Do not annoy your visitors. That means: No pop-whatevers, no "If this banner is flashing, you've won a monkey to punch"-type of stuff. I also don't like pages with sounds, like the "cameron diaz ad" on kazaa, or even the embedded mp3 on mobistar's page. (Mobistar is a Belgian GSM operator).
One thing I think is really cool is the site of URGent, a Belgian student radio, where you can choose between several designs. The content is drawn from a database, and the designs range from a "lynx" theme to heavy graphics. (And I've heard there's a "kde-like" theme under way)...
I used it a few times, mostly to play the .asf video of Win98 crashing for Bill Gates at a computer conference..
..which was a fake crash, probably to get some press (which it did) under the credo "bad publicity is worse than no publicity"...
The BSOD appeared on the screen with a nice powerpoint "wipe in" transition...
Both package formats have their (dis)advantages. Standardizing on RPM does not mean you can't get the advantages of apt, however: Apt has been adapted for RPM. It's used in Connectiva. More on apt-rpm at this site, or at a search engine near you. I hope that with the wider adoption of LSB and FHS standards it will be easier for both users and programmers to use "cross-distro" packages. Nowadays too many packages are wrongly linked to libraries, making them hard to use on other distros than the ones they were made for. Try to install a SuSE package on a RedHat system and you'll know what I'm talking about.