With distro's like Xandros getting rave reviews and Lindows pushing further integration and Suse getting EAL3 certified things are now starting to get interesting.
I am a huge Mandrake fan, but they seem to be falling behind in total integration and after using them since 7.2 for the first time I've been considering making a switch.
Their basic distro has not been really evolving and although it started out more evolved then its counterparts, this is starting to change. Most of the updates since 7.2 have been general software updates and a few esthetic changes. Here's hoping being in the black helps boost R&D back to what made them an early leader in usability. Philosophically they are still at the top of my (commercial) list, but I am pragmatic.
Download should always be an option. Its just plain economical. But hard copies should always be available for either die hard boxers (you know who you are) or gifts or whatever. The boxed copy should reflect a moderate increase in cost plus shipping.
Seems a no-brainer and a win-win. I want the game that I just fell in love with while playing the demo NOW.
As a side note, no screw authentication schemes on my download or I FUCKING kill you. If I can't whip my system and reinstall it from backup media you've ripped me off. Period.
You assume it does, but change is often unpredictable. We need to do something to reinvigorate democracy and I'd hate for us to become too mired in arguements about possible outcomes to at least try. Sounds like the shortcomings of your average standards body where heavy conservatism and political infighting prohibit any real invovation or advancement.
But seriously, take my family. There is myself and my father who read computer related pulp and bits for hours a day. My sister knows how to turn on a computer and gets the basics, my mother is almost nerdy (in a tech fan sort of way) but *loves* to deffer to my "vast" knowlege. Women to some degree are perpetuating these stereotypes and men do seem to love the mechanical.
I think the tension between BSD/Linux camps is pretty funny really. I mean *GEEKY*. But I think its pretty easy to lay blame on the new/old schools of OS thought. I mean both are good and anyone serious about computers or programing knows that. They both do different things in slightly different ways and one (you'll have to guess) happens to be a little more old school then the other.
I'm all about the license, which is probably the SECOND biggest reasons for flame-wars but c'mon, they are both good here too. Simply depends on how you like to express your values.
Of course the best thing is that we have the ablility to flame eachother about this at all. I mean two (+/-) totally free operating systems just begging for you to muck around with!
The really cool thing about Linus is he really is like the number one fan of Linux. 2004, the year of Linux on the desktop? Probably not really, but you can tell he is really enjoying this, and I really appreciate that.
The thing with music you have to realize is for every good artist you can name there are thousands of equally good artists you can't name. There is a supply chain bottleneck and if you believe for one second that the only good music is the music that gets listed on Billboard you've simply bought into the marketing you've been drowning in.
I know I'm not a perfect example of a mainstream music listener, I was a musician (not a good one) and a early internet adopter (broadband too) so I've been poking around a lot more then the average person has probably had the time or patience to.
But just take it on faith, there is some really wonderful music out there. The internets one true charm has been serving music and art on a scale we could only dream of before.
If you don't discover it yourself your children will. Human creativity is truly amazing. And you think it really starts and stops with the names you know? Ouch!
technically its 1/500th of the big ol deficit. We should probably be getting more lean, not adding funding to projects utill we have the current crisis under control. I buy my vegetables organic ordinarily, on the whole I probably don't spend that much on food (at least at the grocery store!). When things are lean I don't go out and buy expensive organic beer, even if it only costs a few dollars.
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These guys support Exim, qmail, Postfix, Courier, and Sendmail. And as far as I can tell it IS the next best thing to sliced bread. It might not be a perfect answer, but its a hell of a lot better then nothing. If you offer hosting let me know, I'd love to move my site over to a service that uses something more effective then Spam Assassin or Bayesian filters.
Is this a bad joke? It like a hokey version of one those white separatists saying the holocaust was an exaggeration. All it takes is one list, which gets traded or sold to people who trade and sell.. Use your imagination.
Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't make THAT news.
It hasn't been very serious and I believe the problem is a lot more fucking serious then this. I personally used Bluebottle.com until they got DDOS'ed so much they could no longer AFFORD to run their anti-spam services. Just think about that for a second. They were affective (white/grey lists, I never had a piece of spam) but because the spammers where so brazen and unstoppable they eventually caved in. Here's the notice from their website:
Bluebottle has found itself under constant attack from numerous sources over the past couple of months making it almost impossible to deliver spam free email to your account in a consistent and timely manner. We have therefore decided to cease offering protection for external accounts, and will be removing the verification protection from Bluebottle accounts.
This has not been an easy decision to make but has been necessary in light of the delays currently being experienced in email delivery. Whilst work is still being performed to address these issues, as it currently stands, Bluebottle is unable to ensure the timely delivery of mail for Bluebottle accounts. You are certainly welcome to continue using your Bluebottle account, although no verification protection will be applied to inbound mail.
We have done everything in our power to address these attacks although it has had little effect. We are obviously very disappointed that we cannot continue to provide you our service at this time.
Bluebottle's email verification system is best provided in a distributed manner making it considerably more difficult for these attacks to be effective. We will therefore be making our software available to any service provider or enterprise to protect their end users from unwanted email, and by doing so make it a more secure solution given that it is provided in distributed environment.
Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience our decision will cause.
For further information please contact;
Robert Pickup
Bluebottle Systems Pty Ltd
61 407 528 349
You see? Thats really pretty lame. While we sit around with our proverbial thumbs sticking up our asses spammers are STILL laughing all the way to the bank. The next interesting solution is a variation called TMDA (Tagged Message Delivery Agent). It looks like a great idea, only no ones really using it. Oh and its hard as hell to setup and configure which might explain at least marginally why its not being used more. And of course there's Spam Assassin and its Bayesian buddies which is so far from an answer they are the next best thing to doing nothing!
I know I'm ranting, but honestly, hasn't this gone on long enough? I think we need to change the way we look at email. Look at IM services or something else to provide a model. Not everyone should be able to send me their Barnyard Bonanza websites or their Raped 13 Year Olds video offers. Its fucking too much. I want a public address? Fine, let me mark it public. Let me set up a special account that can absolutely swim in pornography and viagra adds. But as a defacto standard? I'd have to be stupid, but oh well.
I'm sorry if I'm stepping on anyones toes. Honestly. But this has gone on long enough.
Especially considering how promising the OSS model is, why can't we create a solution? We talk about the complexity of the problem, the importance of not breaking standards, etc. Who FUCKING cares if I can't check my email because it totally FUCKING BURIED in unsolicited junk...
I don't mean to come off as the thundering asshole, but this situation has grown so slowly its like watching a car crash spread out over the past 15 YEARS.
Please, experiment. Break things. I don't give a shit, but don't let us sit here moaning like helpless children while spammers sit back (laugh) and rake in MILLIONS.
Get fucking aggressive.
And if I hear one more idiot talk about how you have to cut spammers off by not buying their products I'm going to cut him off at the knees! If that would work you and Noah could be shooting dice right now and we'd have a hell of a lot less to worry about.
That would start an all out war. I don't know anyone who would have moral trouble with P2Ping a couple of songs off an album if the price point was much higher. Cable tv and audio recordings seem to be the two things that increase in price as the technologies become more and more common.
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With distro's like Xandros getting rave reviews and Lindows pushing further integration and Suse getting EAL3 certified things are now starting to get interesting.
I am a huge Mandrake fan, but they seem to be falling behind in total integration and after using them since 7.2 for the first time I've been considering making a switch.
Their basic distro has not been really evolving and although it started out more evolved then its counterparts, this is starting to change. Most of the updates since 7.2 have been general software updates and a few esthetic changes. Here's hoping being in the black helps boost R&D back to what made them an early leader in usability. Philosophically they are still at the top of my (commercial) list, but I am pragmatic.
distros. Its libdecss that you need to install in order to view DVD. If there is a problem with distributing mpeg2 libraries it hasn't stopped anyone.
I don't think so. More likely because of the HD DVD stanard.
I thought that was mine.
Download should always be an option. Its just plain economical. But hard copies should always be available for either die hard boxers (you know who you are) or gifts or whatever. The boxed copy should reflect a moderate increase in cost plus shipping.
Seems a no-brainer and a win-win. I want the game that I just fell in love with while playing the demo NOW.
As a side note, no screw authentication schemes on my download or I FUCKING kill you. If I can't whip my system and reinstall it from backup media you've ripped me off. Period.
You assume it does, but change is often unpredictable. We need to do something to reinvigorate democracy and I'd hate for us to become too mired in arguements about possible outcomes to at least try. Sounds like the shortcomings of your average standards body where heavy conservatism and political infighting prohibit any real invovation or advancement.
With evil. I've made myself sick with how absolutely vile I can be. But the trick is to do with a sort of outward serinity. Like an evil Budda.
;-)
BE karma. Just don't be stupid or violent, manipulative and dirty are good though.
No daily builds since 08/20/2003. Maybe they've had some second thoughts?
Do they really know what their buying? Ducks.
;-)
But seriously, take my family. There is myself and my father who read computer related pulp and bits for hours a day. My sister knows how to turn on a computer and gets the basics, my mother is almost nerdy (in a tech fan sort of way) but *loves* to deffer to my "vast" knowlege. Women to some degree are perpetuating these stereotypes and men do seem to love the mechanical.
Is this news or hyperbole?
I think the tension between BSD/Linux camps is pretty funny really. I mean *GEEKY*. But I think its pretty easy to lay blame on the new/old schools of OS thought. I mean both are good and anyone serious about computers or programing knows that. They both do different things in slightly different ways and one (you'll have to guess) happens to be a little more old school then the other.
I'm all about the license, which is probably the SECOND biggest reasons for flame-wars but c'mon, they are both good here too. Simply depends on how you like to express your values.
Of course the best thing is that we have the ablility to flame eachother about this at all. I mean two (+/-) totally free operating systems just begging for you to muck around with!
Truely the funniest OT advice I've read in ages!
The really cool thing about Linus is he really is like the number one fan of Linux. 2004, the year of Linux on the desktop? Probably not really, but you can tell he is really enjoying this, and I really appreciate that.
The thing with music you have to realize is for every good artist you can name there are thousands of equally good artists you can't name. There is a supply chain bottleneck and if you believe for one second that the only good music is the music that gets listed on Billboard you've simply bought into the marketing you've been drowning in.
I know I'm not a perfect example of a mainstream music listener, I was a musician (not a good one) and a early internet adopter (broadband too) so I've been poking around a lot more then the average person has probably had the time or patience to.
But just take it on faith, there is some really wonderful music out there. The internets one true charm has been serving music and art on a scale we could only dream of before.
If you don't discover it yourself your children will. Human creativity is truly amazing. And you think it really starts and stops with the names you know? Ouch!
technically its 1/500th of the big ol deficit. We should probably be getting more lean, not adding funding to projects utill we have the current crisis under control. I buy my vegetables organic ordinarily, on the whole I probably don't spend that much on food (at least at the grocery store!). When things are lean I don't go out and buy expensive organic beer, even if it only costs a few dollars.
is no laughing matter. ;-)
GRANDPA!
;-)
Oh, wait..
Trolling 55%
Complaining 25%
Resumbitting/Posting old stories 10%
Bashing Microsoft 5%
Bashing Linux users for bashing Microsoft 5%
Goatse linking 5%
Trying to think of something witty to post 3%
Moaning about lack of voting choices 2.5%
Reading stories links in main articles +/- 1%
Submitting non-sensical posts with made up facts and off topic trivia? 110.5% +/- 1%
Oh, wait, you didn't mean me specifically?
There are only two types! Internet users and TV users. Aren't you paying attention?!!
;-)
These guys support Exim, qmail, Postfix, Courier, and Sendmail. And as far as I can tell it IS the next best thing to sliced bread. It might not be a perfect answer, but its a hell of a lot better then nothing. If you offer hosting let me know, I'd love to move my site over to a service that uses something more effective then Spam Assassin or Bayesian filters.
Is this a bad joke? It like a hokey version of one those white separatists saying the holocaust was an exaggeration. All it takes is one list, which gets traded or sold to people who trade and sell.. Use your imagination.
Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't make THAT news.
You see? Thats really pretty lame. While we sit around with our proverbial thumbs sticking up our asses spammers are STILL laughing all the way to the bank. The next interesting solution is a variation called TMDA (Tagged Message Delivery Agent). It looks like a great idea, only no ones really using it. Oh and its hard as hell to setup and configure which might explain at least marginally why its not being used more. And of course there's Spam Assassin and its Bayesian buddies which is so far from an answer they are the next best thing to doing nothing!
I know I'm ranting, but honestly, hasn't this gone on long enough? I think we need to change the way we look at email. Look at IM services or something else to provide a model. Not everyone should be able to send me their Barnyard Bonanza websites or their Raped 13 Year Olds video offers. Its fucking too much. I want a public address? Fine, let me mark it public. Let me set up a special account that can absolutely swim in pornography and viagra adds. But as a defacto standard? I'd have to be stupid, but oh well.
I'm sorry if I'm stepping on anyones toes. Honestly. But this has gone on long enough.
Especially considering how promising the OSS model is, why can't we create a solution? We talk about the complexity of the problem, the importance of not breaking standards, etc. Who FUCKING cares if I can't check my email because it totally FUCKING BURIED in unsolicited junk...
I don't mean to come off as the thundering asshole, but this situation has grown so slowly its like watching a car crash spread out over the past 15 YEARS.
Please, experiment. Break things. I don't give a shit, but don't let us sit here moaning like helpless children while spammers sit back (laugh) and rake in MILLIONS.
Get fucking aggressive.
And if I hear one more idiot talk about how you have to cut spammers off by not buying their products I'm going to cut him off at the knees! If that would work you and Noah could be shooting dice right now and we'd have a hell of a lot less to worry about.
Programers still know how to experiment, right?
That would start an all out war. I don't know anyone who would have moral trouble with P2Ping a couple of songs off an album if the price point was much higher. Cable tv and audio recordings seem to be the two things that increase in price as the technologies become more and more common.
Let them publish a study and when we get concensus go for it. What happens if it pops at the launch pad?