Maybe their plot is inaccurate, because they only list access points directly beneath their aircraft, but I'd guess the signals would have a pretty big radius that far up in the air. That said, they flew directly over my place. Are you jealous?
The MAC address is being sent in the clear, so anyone can sniff it and spoof it pretty easy. Not that I blame you, for I do the same thing, and just hope that the measures I use to detect outsiders works.
If people didn't send me bloody word documents, I'd ditch windows immediately, but Open Office and abiword aren't up to standard yet, for documents that I get sent...
I've been working with many teachers this fall, and I was a little unprepared for the MS Word ubiquity. But guess what, the word viewer, power point viewer, and excel viewer programs work flawlessly under wine. And more importantly, wine pretty much configures itself nowadays. Also, Microsoft encourages you to distribute the viewer programs to all your friends, so there are no licensing problems either. The only thing is that you can't create Word documents yourself, but why would anyone want to do this?
O.k., after hearing all the negative reviews, I went to see Revolutions, and it was not the disappointment everyone said. In fact, it was more or less what I expected. Actually pretty awesome if you can ignore the few cheesy sympathetic moments.
I'm live in Los Angeles. I just walked onto my balcony and screamed "MASTER/SLAVE!" Nothing happened (except one guy below looked at me kinda funny) so it's clearly a hoax.
I think it's better to ignore such messages and let the moderators send it quickly to -1. You're advertising for the nut by respoonding with the same subject.
Let's face it - do we really want the votes of people who can't figure out how to make an "X" mark next to a name to decide the next president/prime minister?
From the description, it seems that the presenter meant for the percentages to sum to 100%. Anyway, nobody makes rules about what you can represent in a pie chart.
I agree. A country that has 20% of the world's population has no business throwing all its money away to foreign monopolies. China can create its own standards, and have the rest of the world adopt them (and not vice-versa) becuase the foreign businesses couldn't resist the money-making opportunity. If China were buying Microsoft licenses at the same rate per populace as in the U.S., then they would be sending Microsoft enough money to buy a few countries of its own.
I disagree. I have an LG CDRW drive, and it works well and is not cheaply built like others I've used, like the Yamaha drives with flimsy trays that were so popular.
It is sad but Stallman seems to think that to be for freedom you have to agree with him. GPL, BSD, MPL, and all the other free software groups are great. But people do have the right to not produce free software. Stallman seems to think that is evil.
I think, in general, statements like this about about RMS are almost always misinformed (no offense). I don't think "evil" is what he thinks of non-free software, just "not for the public good". Like I may say that AOL has the right to distribute billions of unsolicited coasters, but it is not good to have all this crap in landfills. I wouldn't call AOL evil for this, but I would say they are wrong.
...including that my mother knew him in the late 70s
You think he may have gotten a chance to brush up on his public speaking skills over the last quarter century?:) I know I did. Anyway, I've seen him on videos. He's as good a speaker as any, and more importantly, he can give very precise arguments. You should be more worried about Linus.
And the obvious question is:
Should I give you my mailing address so that you can ship me the Windows 2000 software, since I can't afford to pay the $300 (or whatever it costs) for it?
I'm not being a smartass, I'm just making a valid point.
I have a Linksys PCI card with external, detachable antenna. It's a Prism2, and has a good range with the antenna. Plus, without the antenna I still get good reception inside. Works as an AP with the right firmware.
It's probably not worse than having all PCs ship with Windows. In fact, since I hear Windows is available for cheap on the streets in other parts of the world, anyone who wants Windows could probably get it for a small fee and install it on their GNU/Linux computer. The ubiquity of Windows and its availability means that comsumers can choose it if they like, and many are probably likely to do so. Looks to me like forcing all PCs to ship with free and/or open source software is the only realistic way to give choice (or at least to get comsumers to actively choose an operating system) in today's environment.
Now that Microsoft lost a patent lawsuit it's time to fix the system! Sorry to be so cynical, but it looks to me like the Eolas (sp?) case was a godsend.
If so, then hopefully it won't subsequently raise the price of the cheap laser printers. One toner cartridge on my Samsung ML-1210 lasts me more than a year, compared to the Epson 777 I trashed earlier this year, whose color+b&w cartridges totaled $55 to replace, and lasted for a very, very short time (this was my first printer, and I was extremely naive).
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How do you read the netstumbler files, without installing netstumbler?
Maybe their plot is inaccurate, because they only list access points directly beneath their aircraft, but I'd guess the signals would have a pretty big radius that far up in the air. That said, they flew directly over my place. Are you jealous?
The MAC address is being sent in the clear, so anyone can sniff it and spoof it pretty easy. Not that I blame you, for I do the same thing, and just hope that the measures I use to detect outsiders works.
I hope so. 0.7 has some strange hanging bugs on my system.
If people didn't send me bloody word documents, I'd ditch windows immediately, but Open Office and abiword aren't up to standard yet, for documents that I get sent...
I've been working with many teachers this fall, and I was a little unprepared for the MS Word ubiquity. But guess what, the word viewer, power point viewer, and excel viewer programs work flawlessly under wine. And more importantly, wine pretty much configures itself nowadays. Also, Microsoft encourages you to distribute the viewer programs to all your friends, so there are no licensing problems either. The only thing is that you can't create Word documents yourself, but why would anyone want to do this?
O.k., after hearing all the negative reviews, I went to see Revolutions, and it was not the disappointment everyone said. In fact, it was more or less what I expected. Actually pretty awesome if you can ignore the few cheesy sympathetic moments.
Sorry to bring this up. Oh wait, I didn't.
Indeed. You have to make sure that the voter himself cannot prove who he voted for, as well as making sure no one can figure out his votes.
I'm live in Los Angeles. I just walked onto my balcony and screamed "MASTER/SLAVE!" Nothing happened (except one guy below looked at me kinda funny) so it's clearly a hoax.
I think it's better to ignore such messages and let the moderators send it quickly to -1. You're advertising for the nut by respoonding with the same subject.
Is 2.6 really noticably faster than 2.4 for regular desktop use (X responsiveness, etc...)?
Let's face it - do we really want the votes of people who can't figure out how to make an "X" mark next to a name to decide the next president/prime minister?
Yes. As well as others who can.
From the description, it seems that the presenter meant for the percentages to sum to 100%. Anyway, nobody makes rules about what you can represent in a pie chart.
The US government shits $87bn in social programs.
Actualy I think the money is mostly going to U.S. contracters, so it's more like corporate welfare, if you can call that a social program.
I agree. A country that has 20% of the world's population has no business throwing all its money away to foreign monopolies. China can create its own standards, and have the rest of the world adopt them (and not vice-versa) becuase the foreign businesses couldn't resist the money-making opportunity. If China were buying Microsoft licenses at the same rate per populace as in the U.S., then they would be sending Microsoft enough money to buy a few countries of its own.
I disagree. I have an LG CDRW drive, and it works well and is not cheaply built like others I've used, like the Yamaha drives with flimsy trays that were so popular.
It is sad but Stallman seems to think that to be for freedom you have to agree with him. GPL, BSD, MPL, and all the other free software groups are great. But people do have the right to not produce free software. Stallman seems to think that is evil.
I think, in general, statements like this about about RMS are almost always misinformed (no offense). I don't think "evil" is what he thinks of non-free software, just "not for the public good". Like I may say that AOL has the right to distribute billions of unsolicited coasters, but it is not good to have all this crap in landfills. I wouldn't call AOL evil for this, but I would say they are wrong.
You think he may have gotten a chance to brush up on his public speaking skills over the last quarter century?
C'mon, don't mod this guy down! It was funny! Even if you're a Gentoo hater.
At some point, isn't it easier to just run Win2K?
And the obvious question is:
Should I give you my mailing address so that you can ship me the Windows 2000 software, since I can't afford to pay the $300 (or whatever it costs) for it?
I'm not being a smartass, I'm just making a valid point.
I have a Linksys PCI card with external, detachable antenna. It's a Prism2, and has a good range with the antenna. Plus, without the antenna I still get good reception inside. Works as an AP with the right firmware.
If the Vietnameese government can't enfore the licensing terms of propritary software, why would they enfore the GPL or any other Open Source license?
Aren't communists supposed to help each other?
It's probably not worse than having all PCs ship with Windows. In fact, since I hear Windows is available for cheap on the streets in other parts of the world, anyone who wants Windows could probably get it for a small fee and install it on their GNU/Linux computer. The ubiquity of Windows and its availability means that comsumers can choose it if they like, and many are probably likely to do so. Looks to me like forcing all PCs to ship with free and/or open source software is the only realistic way to give choice (or at least to get comsumers to actively choose an operating system) in today's environment.
Now that Microsoft lost a patent lawsuit it's time to fix the system! Sorry to be so cynical, but it looks to me like the Eolas (sp?) case was a godsend.
If so, then hopefully it won't subsequently raise the price of the cheap laser printers. One toner cartridge on my Samsung ML-1210 lasts me more than a year, compared to the Epson 777 I trashed earlier this year, whose color+b&w cartridges totaled $55 to replace, and lasted for a very, very short time (this was my first printer, and I was extremely naive).
Example? And please don't say Terry Gross' interview with Bill O'Reilly.