Now why does it matter for Qt/KDE, but not for, say, GIMP?
Not that I necessarily disagree with your sentiment, but you may want to note that to make your point stronger, you should probably pick something other than the GIMP for your example; GIMP is behind the GIMP toolkit, a.k.a. Gtk, which competes with Qt anyway... And Gtk and Qt play nicely together, (or at least, not antagonistically) so you can use both on the same machine, at the same time...
The rate at which windows are drawn is not a heavy drain on my productivity. How about you?
Actually, I'm not an eye-candy guy at all, and use miwm as a window manager... but I do see a point in all this when I start compiling some project I'm working on, flick back to mozilla to read the next portion of the spec, and have to pause and wait for a redraw...
Full GUI goodness for creating your postgres database.
$ pg_dump my_guified_db > m_g_d.sql
Email sql script (which contains all reports, tables views, etc...)
The next person needs to import ("open") the database, like this $ psql my_other_db < m_g_d.sql $ pgaccess
And the next person is up and running with their GUI goodness.
Yes, I used the command-line there, because it's the easiest way to show how simple it is. There are GUIs to do the import, export, and program install too, but I couldn't put screenshots in here.
FWIW: Access doesn't come with most versions of Office today. (I have to specifically inform my clients to get Office Professional, not Office Small Business Edition or Office Standard, and then to do a custom install to get Access on the machine...) But, just as with postgres/pgaccess, all that only has to be done once...
I believe his point was that the XBox is essentially an x86-based computer, based on an architecture originally known as "IBM compatible", now commonly described as a "PC", and differentiated from machine architectures commonly described as "Macs", "mainframes" "Sparc boxen", etc.
Yeah, other machine types make perfectly usable general-purpose boxes, after some tweaking. That doesn't change the fact that in todays world, people call x86 machines "PCs".
So, just like any other GSM base station, you need a BSC (Base Station Controller) and a gateway MSC (which Asterisk _might_ be able to manage with some hacking - does Asterisk speak SS7?)
No, it does it to any long string. Try posting "thisisaverylongstringwithoutanyspacesorpunctuatio n". It it there to prevent page-widening by very long strings within tables. It's only obvious within URLs, though.
Wouldn't this simple fix stop 99% of spammers in their tracks?
No, it wouldn't.
Firstly, what this prevents is the direct sending of mail from unregistered IPs to a destination host, or via an open relay. However, the bulk of the spam out there today (not this time last year, when the profile was completely different...) does not come from open relays. Eliminating both open relays and direct port 25 connections from non-mailserver IPs would only eliminate one simple route for spam.
The bulk of todays spam comes from trojaned machines (botnets) which are able to spew forth spams as directed by their controlling server. Given that these bots are able to hook into things like MAPI and/or read configuration files for kmail/evolution/mutt which can contain smarthost IPs and login details, they are able to send as much mail as they like pretending to be the authorised owner of the machine in question. At this point, there is nothing left to distinguish a spam email from any other email originating on that computer.
Until you can prevent every machine out there from being compromised thus, or convince the entire world that clicking the "save password" button is evil, you cannot prevent spam disguising itself as legitimate mail.
Further, assuming that we don't consider these smart viruses which pick up the user/password settings, there's nothing preventing the spammers from registering "sdfkjwnwfsinlsd.biz", configuring the "official authorised mailserver IP" to be that of a compromised machine somewhere (or an army of them) and having those spew forth spams for 24 hours (or even 1 hour... ) Getting his 100million messages out there, then cancelling the domain, and leaving no trace of anything worth blocking.
Greylisting comes the closest to being an effective spam blocker, but it would be trivial to implement a spam-bot which played the greylisting game... and once it passed the greylist test, it could then spam that mailserver for a while, confident that its messages were getting through.
Spam cannot be avoided by purely technological means. As long as a human can message you using only a computer, a spammer can make that computer spam you.
Stupid Americans... they take a perfectly servicable language and go and corrupt it beyond usefulness... Oh, well, your point is taken; "it's been" is acceptable usage for you guys... I stand corrected...
Re:Wait . . wait . . what? (Score:1)
by jackofallbrandnames (881785) on 2005.08.10 14:59 (#13284159)
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Re:Wait . . wait . . what? (Score:1)
by jackofallbrandnames (881785) on 2005.08.10 15:08 (#13284181)
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I would say more, but the/. cowboys only let me have one thought for every twelve minutes.
Oh, and when the fuck are you going to fix the punctuation in your obnoxious message ("It's been X minutes since you last successfully posted a comment" should end with a period/full stop, you stupid motherfucking hamster fondlers)?
What? You go to all the trouble of composing such a detailed grammar troll, and you don't point out the glaringly obvious grammatical error in that "obnoxious message", choosing instead to only point out the missing punctuation?
You should try to not give yourself away as a loser who doesn't know about grammar.
I was last in the US about a year ago, and bought a prepaid one there the day I arrived... When asked for address info, I told them I didn't have any (since I was from out-of-town), and asked, since it was prepaid, why did they need any?
They thought about it for a minute, discussed it with their manager, then decided that they only needed my name and date of birth and those only for "security reasons" (which I assume to mean that's what they'll ask for if I ever call up customer support)...
This was in a T-Mobile store, and the phone was a cheap network-locked GSM Nokia, which I promptly unlocked and used with my overseas SIM.
People are too quick to yell "troll!" Doing so means you don't give people a chance to correct their mistakes. Worse, it means you don't give a fair hearing to opinions you don't already share.... -- Since ACs tend to be trolls, I tend to ignore them. If you really have something serious to say to me, please log in.
I don't really think anything serious of it, but the juxtaposition of this comment and your sig is somewhat comical...
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Now why does it matter for Qt/KDE, but not for, say, GIMP?
Not that I necessarily disagree with your sentiment, but you may want to note that to make your point stronger, you should probably pick something other than the GIMP for your example; GIMP is behind the GIMP toolkit, a.k.a. Gtk, which competes with Qt anyway... And Gtk and Qt play nicely together, (or at least, not antagonistically) so you can use both on the same machine, at the same time...
So is Nintendogs the new Tamagotchi?
It sure seems like it: virtual pet which you have to care for in order to keep alive, and became a craze overnight....
For those who are interested, the sig in question was:
More info is available from various interviews and magazine articles found via Google.
The things you learn from the old hands... Thanks for the tip. This is the kind of stuff which probably should have made it into the Wikipedia...
Interesing Malda quote, which fell out from that research: "You can go to CNN and see very straight-laced, spell-checked, fact-checked summary of the day's events. Or you can go somewhere like Slashdot..."
which is possibly easier to follow here: http://gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/567 376
I develop Access databases for a living (among other things...), but:
$ sudo apt-get install postgres pgaccess
$ pgaccess
Full GUI goodness for creating your postgres database.
$ pg_dump my_guified_db > m_g_d.sql
Email sql script (which contains all reports, tables views, etc...)
The next person needs to import ("open") the database, like this
$ psql my_other_db < m_g_d.sql
$ pgaccess
And the next person is up and running with their GUI goodness.
Yes, I used the command-line there, because it's the easiest way to show how simple it is. There are GUIs to do the import, export, and program install too, but I couldn't put screenshots in here.
FWIW: Access doesn't come with most versions of Office today. (I have to specifically inform my clients to get Office Professional, not Office Small Business Edition or Office Standard, and then to do a custom install to get Access on the machine...) But, just as with postgres/pgaccess, all that only has to be done once...
Heh. I knew I friended him for that at some point... he's http://slashdot.org/~yerricde, and now posts as http://slashdot.org/~tepples
Tetanus on Drugs, anyone?
/. somewhere... I can't seem to recall his nick just at the moment, though...
"Tetanus On Drugs simulates playing a Tetris® clone under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs."
The author lurks on
I believe his point was that the XBox is essentially an x86-based computer, based on an architecture originally known as "IBM compatible", now commonly described as a "PC", and differentiated from machine architectures commonly described as "Macs", "mainframes" "Sparc boxen", etc.
Yeah, other machine types make perfectly usable general-purpose boxes, after some tweaking. That doesn't change the fact that in todays world, people call x86 machines "PCs".
Once someone is using a PS2 ... for primarily non game playing purposes, then they can be considered something other than a game console.
Ahem... *cough*
No, you get to log onto MSN Messenger using any Passport account you want. Now, you have the choice when creating your Passport account:
- to use your personal email address as your login name, or
- to create a hotmail/msn email account and use that email address as your login name, or even
- to create an @passport.com login name which is not an email account,
but one way or another, you still need to create a Passport account.Just because a login name is of the form user@host.domain, doesn't mean it's an email address.
Woud the KuroBox suit your purposes?
Hmm... the Revolution Store and main web site appear to be undergoing some sort of maintenance at the moment, but the wiki is still online...
I originally saw this on robots,net, but it looks like it might suit your needs...
Apparenly, that changed about 4 months back... Asterisk SS7 support became available in April.
So, just like any other GSM base station, you need a BSC (Base Station Controller) and a gateway MSC (which Asterisk _might_ be able to manage with some hacking - does Asterisk speak SS7?)
Umm... it didn't a short time ago...
No, it does it to any long string. Try posting "thisisaverylongstringwithoutanyspacesorpunctuatio n". It it there to prevent page-widening by very long strings within tables. It's only obvious within URLs, though.
Wouldn't this simple fix stop 99% of spammers in their tracks?
No, it wouldn't.
Firstly, what this prevents is the direct sending of mail from unregistered IPs to a destination host, or via an open relay. However, the bulk of the spam out there today (not this time last year, when the profile was completely different...) does not come from open relays. Eliminating both open relays and direct port 25 connections from non-mailserver IPs would only eliminate one simple route for spam.
The bulk of todays spam comes from trojaned machines (botnets) which are able to spew forth spams as directed by their controlling server. Given that these bots are able to hook into things like MAPI and/or read configuration files for kmail/evolution/mutt which can contain smarthost IPs and login details, they are able to send as much mail as they like pretending to be the authorised owner of the machine in question. At this point, there is nothing left to distinguish a spam email from any other email originating on that computer.
Until you can prevent every machine out there from being compromised thus, or convince the entire world that clicking the "save password" button is evil, you cannot prevent spam disguising itself as legitimate mail.
Further, assuming that we don't consider these smart viruses which pick up the user/password settings, there's nothing preventing the spammers from registering "sdfkjwnwfsinlsd.biz", configuring the "official authorised mailserver IP" to be that of a compromised machine somewhere (or an army of them) and having those spew forth spams for 24 hours (or even 1 hour... ) Getting his 100million messages out there, then cancelling the domain, and leaving no trace of anything worth blocking.
Greylisting comes the closest to being an effective spam blocker, but it would be trivial to implement a spam-bot which played the greylisting game... and once it passed the greylist test, it could then spam that mailserver for a while, confident that its messages were getting through.
Spam cannot be avoided by purely technological means. As long as a human can message you using only a computer, a spammer can make that computer spam you.
I have no problem with putting a 'Designed for Firefox.' button on my sites...
These are better... Really.
... any software ...
And I'll extend that again to the challenge of getting anything to do something it wasn't designed to do... (cf. definition 7.)
Funny... that's not in my dictionary...
Stupid Americans... they take a perfectly servicable language and go and corrupt it beyond usefulness... Oh, well, your point is taken; "it's been" is acceptable usage for you guys... I stand corrected...
by jackofallbrandnames (881785) on 2005.08.10 14:59 (#13284159)
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Hmm... that's two thoughts in 9 minutes...
:-)
Oh, and when the fuck are you going to fix the punctuation in your obnoxious message ("It's been X minutes since you last successfully posted a comment" should end with a period/full stop, you stupid motherfucking hamster fondlers)?
What? You go to all the trouble of composing such a detailed grammar troll, and you don't point out the glaringly obvious grammatical error in that "obnoxious message", choosing instead to only point out the missing punctuation?
You should try to not give yourself away as a loser who doesn't know about grammar.
(Hint: "It is been" does not make any sense.)
Actually, my sig is a total lie. I read ACs all the time.
Yeah, that's what I expected... It's the kind of comment that I'd make too, despite the fact that I read at -1, nested, with no score modifiers...
I was last in the US about a year ago, and bought a prepaid one there the day I arrived... When asked for address info, I told them I didn't have any (since I was from out-of-town), and asked, since it was prepaid, why did they need any?
They thought about it for a minute, discussed it with their manager, then decided that they only needed my name and date of birth and those only for "security reasons" (which I assume to mean that's what they'll ask for if I ever call up customer support)...
This was in a T-Mobile store, and the phone was a cheap network-locked GSM Nokia, which I promptly unlocked and used with my overseas SIM.
I don't really think anything serious of it, but the juxtaposition of this comment and your sig is somewhat comical...