Most MEP's have an e-mail address or contact form. The night before the previous vote I did a little last minute activism. Not only did I get replies from most of them, but a few were actually prepared to listen to what I had to say.
You could always try downloading the mini-iso distro, it's still about 200 megs but includes a bare-bones system that you can then add stuff to. The ports collection is around a 20 meg d/l (IIRC) and only downloads the sources to stuff you need as you compile and install. I know someone on dialup who does this (however, it's still pretty painful!). Once you've got a good system up however, apart from running cvsup every now and then it'll just work (tm).
1) Go buy a box-set from the freebsd mall. 2) Find a friend with a copy and get them to lend it you. 3) Club together with a few friends to buy it. 4) ??? 5).....
By all measures of the FSF, BSD's kernel and userland are indeed Free (as in speech and as in beer if you download the iso's). Granted, some of the ports and packages may not be, but then again the same can be said of redhat and suse.
...that way you can get your opinions heard by the people trying to push this thing into the place it rightly deserves (the top of the browser food chain).
We could probably use a few more people on the list, after cd manufacture's been sorted out the list has started to stagnate somewhat. Good people with good ideas though, especially Bart Decrem et al.
Ok then Einstein, how many of the Root Servers do you think run an open source DNS? What percentage of servers on the internet use a free/open-source operating system?
One of the reasons that web-services/applications are growing is because the cost of deploying them is reduced considerably because of Free software. Instead of having to use ASP on windows one can use Perl/PHP/Python/Ruby/Scripting language du jour. Free/open source software gives people a choice and if that doesn't make it an essential I don't know what does.
Also refer to the wired interview with Linus - they point out that most e-mail is routed over sendmail, two thirds of servers are powered by apache...that fact that a Free (as in speech and beer) software web-server wipes the floor with that POS called IIS speaks wonders, 60 odd % of people thought that Apache was essential for them...more and more each day jump from the sinking ship that is IIS, so yes, open source is important, nay, essential. Remembe the dangers of a mono-culture.
I don't know if you're kidding or not, but if you aren't, look at dilbert.com and read through the comic archive. The boss in the comics has pointy hair, is technically and socially innept and is part of the reason his company is failing.
It's now a derogatory term used to mock those in management who don't know their arse from their face, i.e. are totally useless and only there because nobody has the guts to fire or demote them (see also, the peter principle and the dilbert principle)
I used to have the same problem as you (always firing up IE by default, slow load times etc.)...here's how to fix it:
1) Download Firebird, no, really, it rocks. It's small and loads fast...plus you get tabbed browsing, popup blocking and any little XUL plugins (like the very useful realtime CSS editor)
2) Change the internet explorer link to point to Firebird, whilst still keeping the IE logo. Now, whenenver you click on IE, Firebird comes up instead!
...what some of the not so clued up people who've posted their messages to that page fail to realise is that, yes, there are patches issued for various services on Linux, but by and large they are not in the same league as many Windows ones, as another/. commenter so eloquently put it in the thread about the last OpenSSH vulnerability (before I bastardised it by paraphrasing)...
"the OpenSSH vulnerabilities were fairly subtle in nature, not like leaving a port open by default that allows you to screw over the users PC or access their files"
I've been thinking of something along those lines for a while and wondered why nobody has really done it before outside of multiple document interfaces (a la pane view etc.).
At the end of the day it's all horses for courses, some people like a single monitor and virtual desktops, I like my three monitors (useful when using Cubase and their ilk). I'm sure many people would look at my setup and think it must be difficult to keep track of stuff, other people (who've never seen it done before) think it's really cool that I can "drag" a window from one screen to another.
The only problem with this is that you then have to precisely [sic?] resize the windows so that stuff is aligned well, whereas on a dual monitor setup, if you had an IDE open in one window and some documentation open in another, they can both just be maximised at the click of a button into their fullest sizes on their respective monitors.
For the same effect on one large monitor you'd have to resize one window to half the screen by using the resize zones on the edges of the window, then resize another to the other half of the screen, it would take longer and thus negate some of the benefit you were trying to get in the first place.
Going from one monitor and having to have one type of display up at once is so slow in music production work. I don't know if my productivity is increased three times, but I do work faster these days.
Are you behind a firewall? Try forwarding the ports to your machine. On a NAT network? Once again, try forwarding the ports to your machine. Then if it doesn't work you can slate BitTorrent.
Persephone killed one of the
Merovingian's bodyguards with a silver bullet because he was emulating a
werewolf.
I thought that silver bullets was another way to get rid of vampires? Plus, the two bodyguards were watching a film about vampires...otherwise...how long did it take to come up with that? It's pretty much what I was thinking, just a bit more eloquent!
2+ million BTUs of cooling capacity using Liebert's extreme density cooling. This system uses rack-mounted heat exchangers with R-134A refrigerant and an overhead chiller unit
(R)Traditional AC systems would have resulted in a wind velocity of over 60 mph under the raised floor
2. small fonts (guess what: verdana is NOT cool), sans-serif for main text, low-contrast hard-to-read colors, and so on.
Hate to bust your balls here and I know it's a little offtopic, but heh, Verdana is actually a damn good font, designed by a top notch font guru and specifically hinted so that it will look good even on very low resolution devices (i.e. a computer monitor) without requiring anti-aliasing or the like.
Plus, I much prefer to read sans-serif than serif text, I find it cleaner and a lot easier on the eye. But, like most things to do with aesthetics, it's all horses for courses, some people like one thing, some people like another - that's just the way it is.
Except The Queen Elizabeth teaching hospital in Birmingham, U.K. actually has a mobile phone mast on top of it...and all the heart monitors seem to work fine, funny that, heh?
Brilliant, now all they need to do is shrink it down so it can fit in my pocket.
Seriously, these guys get paid to come up with rubish like this? Anyone who can't concentrate on, say, a phone call and cooking probably doesn't know how to work a phone, let alone make a call.
Yet another case of coming up with a device and then trying to justify it.
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Most MEP's have an e-mail address or contact form. The night before the previous vote I did a little last minute activism. Not only did I get replies from most of them, but a few were actually prepared to listen to what I had to say.
So there, it's not hard and it's not scary.
Valid point...
You could always try downloading the mini-iso distro, it's still about 200 megs but includes a bare-bones system that you can then add stuff to. The ports collection is around a 20 meg d/l (IIRC) and only downloads the sources to stuff you need as you compile and install. I know someone on dialup who does this (however, it's still pretty painful!). Once you've got a good system up however, apart from running cvsup every now and then it'll just work (tm).
Or you could:
.....
1) Go buy a box-set from the freebsd mall.
2) Find a friend with a copy and get them to lend it you.
3) Club together with a few friends to buy it.
4) ???
5)
By all measures of the FSF, BSD's kernel and userland are indeed Free (as in speech and as in beer if you download the iso's). Granted, some of the ports and packages may not be, but then again the same can be said of redhat and suse.
...that way you can get your opinions heard by the people trying to push this thing into the place it rightly deserves (the top of the browser food chain).
We could probably use a few more people on the list, after cd manufacture's been sorted out the list has started to stagnate somewhat. Good people with good ideas though, especially Bart Decrem et al.
5.44 gigabits to megabytes
:o)
Thanks to the google bar in firebird I don't need a calculator anymore!
Ok then Einstein, how many of the Root Servers do you think run an open source DNS? What percentage of servers on the internet use a free/open-source operating system?
One of the reasons that web-services/applications are growing is because the cost of deploying them is reduced considerably because of Free software. Instead of having to use ASP on windows one can use Perl/PHP/Python/Ruby/Scripting language du jour. Free/open source software gives people a choice and if that doesn't make it an essential I don't know what does.
Also refer to the wired interview with Linus - they point out that most e-mail is routed over sendmail, two thirds of servers are powered by apache...that fact that a Free (as in speech and beer) software web-server wipes the floor with that POS called IIS speaks wonders, 60 odd % of people thought that Apache was essential for them...more and more each day jump from the sinking ship that is IIS, so yes, open source is important, nay, essential. Remembe the dangers of a mono-culture.
I don't know if you're kidding or not, but if you aren't, look at dilbert.com and read through the comic archive. The boss in the comics has pointy hair, is technically and socially innept and is part of the reason his company is failing.
It's now a derogatory term used to mock those in management who don't know their arse from their face, i.e. are totally useless and only there because nobody has the guts to fire or demote them (see also, the peter principle and the dilbert principle)
I used to have the same problem as you (always firing up IE by default, slow load times etc.)...here's how to fix it:
1) Download Firebird, no, really, it rocks. It's small and loads fast...plus you get tabbed browsing, popup blocking and any little XUL plugins (like the very useful realtime CSS editor)
2) Change the internet explorer link to point to Firebird, whilst still keeping the IE logo. Now, whenenver you click on IE, Firebird comes up instead!
...what some of the not so clued up people who've posted their messages to that page fail to realise is that, yes, there are patches issued for various services on Linux, but by and large they are not in the same league as many Windows ones, as another /. commenter so eloquently put it in the thread about the last OpenSSH vulnerability (before I bastardised it by paraphrasing)...
"the OpenSSH vulnerabilities were fairly subtle in nature, not like leaving a port open by default that allows you to screw over the users PC or access their files"
I've been thinking of something along those lines for a while and wondered why nobody has really done it before outside of multiple document interfaces (a la pane view etc.).
At the end of the day it's all horses for courses, some people like a single monitor and virtual desktops, I like my three monitors (useful when using Cubase and their ilk). I'm sure many people would look at my setup and think it must be difficult to keep track of stuff, other people (who've never seen it done before) think it's really cool that I can "drag" a window from one screen to another.
The only problem with this is that you then have to precisely [sic?] resize the windows so that stuff is aligned well, whereas on a dual monitor setup, if you had an IDE open in one window and some documentation open in another, they can both just be maximised at the click of a button into their fullest sizes on their respective monitors.
For the same effect on one large monitor you'd have to resize one window to half the screen by using the resize zones on the edges of the window, then resize another to the other half of the screen, it would take longer and thus negate some of the benefit you were trying to get in the first place.
I couldn't survive easily without multiple monitors (3) anymore. Cases in point:
* Cubase SX Audio & Midi sequencer -
Monitor 1: Track listing Monitor 2: Note/Event/Wave Editors Monitor 3: Track Mixers
Going from one monitor and having to have one type of display up at once is so slow in music production work. I don't know if my productivity is increased three times, but I do work faster these days.
Are you behind a firewall? Try forwarding the ports to your machine. On a NAT network? Once again, try forwarding the ports to your machine. Then if it doesn't work you can slate BitTorrent.
Persephone killed one of the Merovingian's bodyguards with a silver bullet because he was emulating a werewolf.
I thought that silver bullets was another way to get rid of vampires? Plus, the two bodyguards were watching a film about vampires...otherwise...how long did it take to come up with that? It's pretty much what I was thinking, just a bit more eloquent!
Here's one in the states
:o)
Remember, when looking to buy things not readily available anymore eBay is our friend!
read the FAQ
Does Prevalence Only Work In Java.
No.
You can use any language for which you are able to find or build a serialization mechanism...
2+ million BTUs of cooling capacity using Liebert's extreme density cooling. This system uses rack-mounted heat exchangers with R-134A refrigerant and an overhead chiller unit
(R)Traditional AC systems would have resulted in a wind velocity of over 60 mph under the raised floor
Holy hell, that is quite mad.
Even better, how about a five finger discount?
/me searches for crowbar and map to nearest apple warehouse.
They don't, you can actually visit his grave. The whole cryogenic suspension debacle is just an urban legend.
2. small fonts (guess what: verdana is NOT cool), sans-serif for main text, low-contrast hard-to-read colors, and so on.
Hate to bust your balls here and I know it's a little offtopic, but heh, Verdana is actually a damn good font, designed by a top notch font guru and specifically hinted so that it will look good even on very low resolution devices (i.e. a computer monitor) without requiring anti-aliasing or the like.
Plus, I much prefer to read sans-serif than serif text, I find it cleaner and a lot easier on the eye. But, like most things to do with aesthetics, it's all horses for courses, some people like one thing, some people like another - that's just the way it is.
Except The Queen Elizabeth teaching hospital in Birmingham, U.K. actually has a mobile phone mast on top of it...and all the heart monitors seem to work fine, funny that, heh?
Brilliant, now all they need to do is shrink it down so it can fit in my pocket.
Seriously, these guys get paid to come up with rubish like this? Anyone who can't concentrate on, say, a phone call and cooking probably doesn't know how to work a phone, let alone make a call.
Yet another case of coming up with a device and then trying to justify it.
Slashdotted, some images in a google cache further down, here's the text though.
Google Cache
Typical slashdotter, mucking up the spelling...
It's MORMONS
Oh, wait, hang on a sec...