I came across a similar issue recently, actually. I could ping local IPs, but DNS didn't work at all. In addition, most programs that used networking exploded spectacularly upon startup.
No removed IE. Just horrific spyware and viruses, and (I suspect) an overenthusiastic Norton Anti-Virus.
I had to wipe the HD and reinstall Windows. A later scan of the backed-up contents revealed, among other things, no fewer than 12 different trojan horses.
The moral of the story is that people should not be allowed to use computers.
There are numerous HTML renderers on Linux that are not Gecko. Gecko is in no way integral to a Linux system. I'm thinking you meant X11, which isn't integral either.
The point of CSS is graceful degradation. It helps you design sites that are still readable and usable even on browsers that don't support CSS, Javascript, etc.
jwz has a very interesting article on the shift to CSS somehow encouraging obsessive-compulsive design types to start designing pixel-perfect sites again. That isn't the point of CSS and it never has been.
"I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal." -- Roger Baldwin in his college yearbook.
That's the full quote and source. Context is a really neat thing, isn't it?
And to answer your question? Babylon 5 sucks, H2G2 is funny until you realize that you're now in the 42 Masturbation Klub, and X-Files has aliens and a token hot member of each gender.
And Star Trek is one of those things that you have to had been there.
I don't get it. If there's such a problem with CIOs and CFOs and FOSS, why do we have all of those corporate-funded projects you mention? (The majority of which, by the way, I don't use.)
I think that's unlikely. Tuomo Valkonen (creator of the ion window manager) has some extremely ideosyncratic beliefs about how files should be laid out, and his software hardly 'sucks'.
There's always going to be some software of high quality that for one reason or another flaunts standards. Look at Google.
I don't give a flying fuck about whether "Aunt Tillie" can use Linux or not. This focus some people have on Linux (or any other OS, frankly) becoming dominant is quixotic and pointless -- Linux cannot really compete with Windows without sacrificing what makes it worthwhile.
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I came across a similar issue recently, actually. I could ping local IPs, but DNS didn't work at all. In addition, most programs that used networking exploded spectacularly upon startup.
No removed IE. Just horrific spyware and viruses, and (I suspect) an overenthusiastic Norton Anti-Virus.
I had to wipe the HD and reinstall Windows. A later scan of the backed-up contents revealed, among other things, no fewer than 12 different trojan horses.
The moral of the story is that people should not be allowed to use computers.
There are numerous HTML renderers on Linux that are not Gecko. Gecko is in no way integral to a Linux system. I'm thinking you meant X11, which isn't integral either.
The point of CSS is graceful degradation. It helps you design sites that are still readable and usable even on browsers that don't support CSS, Javascript, etc.
jwz has a very interesting article on the shift to CSS somehow encouraging obsessive-compulsive design types to start designing pixel-perfect sites again. That isn't the point of CSS and it never has been.
1xx, 2xx, 3xx, 4xx, etc. are all different types of response codes. None of them are actually filled in from 00 to 99.
Interest in the betterment of mankind? Concern for the health and wellbeing of others?
A general belief that benefit to others is good even when you don't directly benefit, perhaps?
Rifles are really great against jet fighters and smart bombs, aren't they?
What? That's a sig. A sig. Not directed to you. As demarked by the dashes above it.
I think you've been hitting the warm coca a bit too much recently, pal.
Um, what name calling?
Oh, and Mr. Lucas? 3D movies were cool maybe back in the 1950s for about two days. Give it up.
Um, why are you using gaim on a server?
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"I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
-- Roger Baldwin in his college yearbook.
That's the full quote and source. Context is a really neat thing, isn't it?
It's not their code, it's protocols. Big difference.
Test marketing, maybe. Perhaps they're trying to figure out which number is more attractive -- thus the different URLs.
In fact, that's probably it. They just want to see whether they should advertise 1GB or 1000MB.
(Goddamned flood control.)
A single login for a single company's myriad services, I'd imagine.
Don't throw the baby out with the bath. Just disable comments.
As much as I hate making this reference...
> iconoclastic
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
*shudders*
And to answer your question? Babylon 5 sucks, H2G2 is funny until you realize that you're now in the 42 Masturbation Klub, and X-Files has aliens and a token hot member of each gender.
And Star Trek is one of those things that you have to had been there.
It's not the same interface, though. It's a different backend, but it's apparently based on Gnome Toaster.
I don't get it. If there's such a problem with CIOs and CFOs and FOSS, why do we have all of those corporate-funded projects you mention? (The majority of which, by the way, I don't use.)
Which is why the socially responsible choice is to have no children at all.
Why should we care whether CIOs and CFOs use FOSS for anything ever?
No, Suicide Girls incites murder. As in dragging pierced punk posers by their nipple rings through the Willamette River.
YAAH! It's an Ilwrath! The Holy Excruciators are coming!
But Robert Novak revealed Valerie Plame in an editorial, and he refuses to reveal his source. Editorials still enjoy protection.
I think that's unlikely. Tuomo Valkonen (creator of the ion window manager) has some extremely ideosyncratic beliefs about how files should be laid out, and his software hardly 'sucks'.
There's always going to be some software of high quality that for one reason or another flaunts standards. Look at Google.
Windows Server 2003
WinXP
Different products. What's the issue?
And for those of us who find mice inconvenient and prefer to use the terminal? What about our 'ease of use'?
I don't give a flying fuck about whether "Aunt Tillie" can use Linux or not. This focus some people have on Linux (or any other OS, frankly) becoming dominant is quixotic and pointless -- Linux cannot really compete with Windows without sacrificing what makes it worthwhile.