How about they censor things by putting a big "censored by commies" image over whatever they censor?
I thought t'internet was the last bastion of free speech?
Mind you, I guess America is just as bad with the MPAA/RIAA telling us what we can't download and people getting sued/fired for writing in blogs.
Anyone fancy a non-Communist, non-Capitalist internet?
screen is so you can check on the status (and even take control of the session) remotely, e.g. from work, without killing the task like just a normal console.
and i think it's a sad day when someone on/. says they use a python script instead of some java gui to do something AND IT GETS MODERATED FUNNY, as if people actually think it's laughable.
god damned script kiddie windows generation have taken over/.
If this can't be disabled (in preferences, about:config, or easily in the source, or via some extension/Greasemonkey script) then I'm sticking with the current 1.5 build, or possibly off to Opera or Epiphany.
Jesus if this was put into MSIE then people would be writing to their MP/senator by now!
I cannot think of any good use for this.
People who run servers do not need that specific kind of stats, their server logs should be good enough. Only marketing (aka spyware) types would want this kind of info.
i bought 5 or 6 of those maxtor 80gb drives on various special offers at fry's and office depot.
3 of them died a week after the warranty was up - like they had some kind of internal clock!
one died just before the warranty was up, i got it replaced, it just died last month, about a year since it was replaced, probably out of warranty again!
i've got one of them left now, that's made it to about 2 years, that's been in a firewire enclosure the whole time, which fuels my belief that the problem was that they run at ata133 (i expect the firewire is ata100 max.)
i've got a 40gb maxtor that's a boot drive, it's starting to click, so won't be much longer now....
i only buy seagate ata100 and wd sata now, i actually think maxtor diamondmax+9 drives are worse than the ibm deathstars.
motion is motion-tracking software, can create stills or video streams and even has a weird webserver kinda-thing. pretty hard to setup the way you want it.
palantir is a streaming image server (mjpeg?), doesn't work too well for msie (only stills or java applet thing) but is fine for firefox. can also control tiltable webcams.
other than that, get an axis network camera, built in webserver and dhcp client, just plug it into your switch.
Dearer means more expensive, it's used in UK English, you know, the Queen's English.
Strangely enough, the French use the term too, "cher" means "dear" as in "my dear and me" (mon cheri et moi) or "too dear" (trop cher).
The fact that the French use the term is probably why the Americans don't.
I would say that less tech-savvy people use the bundled searches with their computer or ISP - like MSN with Windows, or AOL Search with AOL, or Yahoo with SBC etc.
Google isn't actually bundled or partnered with anything - other than Firefox, which is also a tech-savvy product really.
As far as richer goes, well if you're not computer literate enough to use Google, then yeah you probably don't have a great education or job.
it seems the plugin is see-invisible, but i can find it nowhere on the web, only references to it on some seedy warez sites, so i guess it wasn't good enough for sourceforge!
apparently there was something else that would show the web-enabled status.
i'd really like that as i have a friend who is always invisible and every now and then he starts a chat with me and i don't realise he's even online until the window pops up.
plus if he's invisible, i can't hide from him;-)
as far as the grandparent goes, yes i'd love nick-grouping and transparent encryption (trying out gaim-encryption and gaim-otr but gotta get my gaim-using friends to install it too....)
Everyone is pushing wireless lately, God knows why as it's crap for anything other than basic web surfing.
Have you ever tried to even copy a CD ISO over the LAN via wireless? Got a few hours?
108Mbps my arse.
And PCI wireless cards are even more pointless - what's wrong with Ethernet? Wires are not that hard to lay, and a switch is cheaper than an AP. I bought a GbE switch for 40ukp the other day.
And with everyone on wireless, it will eventually kill itself off as there's no frequencies left.
Mod parent up (I just used all my mod points modding down the MacMini nuts!)
It seemed so obvious to me that VLANs were just what was needed, can't believe it took 50-odd posts to get to it.
The alternatives are some serious static route configuration or wireless isolation as per the Netgear DG834G (bit better than just seperate SSIDs).
Personally if I was running a business (from a cable modem?!) and the in-laws wanted to use the internet at my house, I'd get them to pay for their own ADSL connection and routers, hey if they can afford to build a house, they can afford 20 Bucks a month.
"viewers will have to agree to participate in a special file-sharing network. This approach helps AOL reduce the cost of distributing-high quality video files by passing portions of the video files from one user's computer to another."
So I assume AOL are being sensible and using the open, tried and truster BitTorrent? On no wait, this is AOL, they'll need to write some ActiveX plugin for MSIE or something.
"AOL says that since it will control the network, it can protect users from the sorts of viruses and spyware that infect other peer-to-peer systems."
So are AOL *TIME WARNER* going to stop the MPAA/RIAA/Sony poisoning their P2P network then?
Are we going to have to write a AOL proprietary-to-BitTorrent wrapper, or is one of us going to download everything and then torrent it?;-)
I assume it's all going to be shows we don't want to see anyway, or stuff they can't make a Buck out of on [un]remastered DVD?
i'm not sure if it's actually php's fault, it seems that because it's such an easy and available language (on every web host by default) it attracts n00bs a bit too much - the kind of people who are graphics designers who fancy themselves as programmers or 'web developers'.
then there's the books - i've seen way too many tutorials telling the user to do extract($_GET); and things like that, sql injection anyone?
the whole addslashes() stuff is a bit confusing too - there are so many functions that do something very similar (plus php.ini options too).
i personally haven't touched php in over a year (i mainly got tired of working with crap programmers and the slowness of the xml parser), but recently tried php5, doesn't seem to be any security features added - something like perl's taint mode would be nice.
Because they have more users - as they've been going longer than GMail, and hey you can't even sign up for GMail unless you're invited and live in the US!
Seagate - most reliable, quietest, longest (5 year) warranty;
Maxtor - cheapest, they moved from a 3 year warranty to 1 year as most drives would die after 2 years;
WD - not always compatible (weird CHS values), fastest, most expensive;
IBM - they gained the "Deathstar" nickname for good reason!
Not sure if the IBM position has changed now they bought Hitachi, I doubt it as Hitachi used to concentrate on 1.8-2.5" drives, so size not reliability/performance counts.
I downloaded the GPL Quake3, and well, it's not as if it will just run.
You have to compile it first, which I don't believe is straightforward, it still pretty much needs porting, then you have to already have a Windows version to get to the.PAK files etc.
So you certainly can't download Quake3 (or RTCW) for Linux and just play it.
Releasing the source to a game ENGINE but forcing you to buy the Windows version to play it is not OSS.
Making a Linux client for a game that requires a Windows version to play it is not OSS.
Making a Windows game and not even making a Linux installer but forcing the user to copy around.PAK files from a pre-installed Windows version (not even straight off the CDs) is not OSS.
I'll buy Quake4 when they release the Linux version in the same box as the Windows version with a proper installer.
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How about they censor things by putting a big "censored by commies" image over whatever they censor? I thought t'internet was the last bastion of free speech? Mind you, I guess America is just as bad with the MPAA/RIAA telling us what we can't download and people getting sued/fired for writing in blogs. Anyone fancy a non-Communist, non-Capitalist internet?
screen is so you can check on the status (and even take control of the session) remotely, e.g. from work, without killing the task like just a normal console.
/. says they use a python script instead of some java gui to do something AND IT GETS MODERATED FUNNY, as if people actually think it's laughable.
/.
and i think it's a sad day when someone on
god damned script kiddie windows generation have taken over
If this can't be disabled (in preferences, about:config, or easily in the source, or via some extension/Greasemonkey script) then I'm sticking with the current 1.5 build, or possibly off to Opera or Epiphany.
Jesus if this was put into MSIE then people would be writing to their MP/senator by now!
I cannot think of any good use for this.
People who run servers do not need that specific kind of stats, their server logs should be good enough. Only marketing (aka spyware) types would want this kind of info.
i wish i had the points to mod you up!
i bought 5 or 6 of those maxtor 80gb drives on various special offers at fry's and office depot.
3 of them died a week after the warranty was up - like they had some kind of internal clock!
one died just before the warranty was up, i got it replaced, it just died last month, about a year since it was replaced, probably out of warranty again!
i've got one of them left now, that's made it to about 2 years, that's been in a firewire enclosure the whole time, which fuels my belief that the problem was that they run at ata133 (i expect the firewire is ata100 max.)
i've got a 40gb maxtor that's a boot drive, it's starting to click, so won't be much longer now....
i only buy seagate ata100 and wd sata now, i actually think maxtor diamondmax+9 drives are worse than the ibm deathstars.
google for them.
motion is motion-tracking software, can create stills or video streams and even has a weird webserver kinda-thing. pretty hard to setup the way you want it.
palantir is a streaming image server (mjpeg?), doesn't work too well for msie (only stills or java applet thing) but is fine for firefox. can also control tiltable webcams.
other than that, get an axis network camera, built in webserver and dhcp client, just plug it into your switch.
Dearer means more expensive, it's used in UK English, you know, the Queen's English. Strangely enough, the French use the term too, "cher" means "dear" as in "my dear and me" (mon cheri et moi) or "too dear" (trop cher). The fact that the French use the term is probably why the Americans don't.
I would say that less tech-savvy people use the bundled searches with their computer or ISP - like MSN with Windows, or AOL Search with AOL, or Yahoo with SBC etc.
Google isn't actually bundled or partnered with anything - other than Firefox, which is also a tech-savvy product really.
As far as richer goes, well if you're not computer literate enough to use Google, then yeah you probably don't have a great education or job.
All camera retailers on or offline that are based in the state of New York are crooks.
it seems the plugin is see-invisible, but i can find it nowhere on the web, only references to it on some seedy warez sites, so i guess it wasn't good enough for sourceforge!
apparently there was something else that would show the web-enabled status.
the alternative is hacking the gaim source....
how do you do that then?
;-)
i'd really like that as i have a friend who is always invisible and every now and then he starts a chat with me and i don't realise he's even online until the window pops up.
plus if he's invisible, i can't hide from him
as far as the grandparent goes, yes i'd love nick-grouping and transparent encryption (trying out gaim-encryption and gaim-otr but gotta get my gaim-using friends to install it too....)
I used to run RH6.1 (with KDE) on a P200MMX/96Mb
Hehe, code bloat has set in an my Fedora4 box runs about the same speed (3GHz/1Gb)
JAVA?!
;-)
Nice proof-of-concept and all, but my God that must run slow! Especially on a mobile phone
Everyone is pushing wireless lately, God knows why as it's crap for anything other than basic web surfing.
Have you ever tried to even copy a CD ISO over the LAN via wireless? Got a few hours?
108Mbps my arse.
And PCI wireless cards are even more pointless - what's wrong with Ethernet? Wires are not that hard to lay, and a switch is cheaper than an AP. I bought a GbE switch for 40ukp the other day.
And with everyone on wireless, it will eventually kill itself off as there's no frequencies left.
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20051121/the_mothe r_of_all_cpu_charts-39.html
is about the only page worth looking at, the rest is all adverts and barely any text or conclusions.
Mod parent up (I just used all my mod points modding down the MacMini nuts!)
It seemed so obvious to me that VLANs were just what was needed, can't believe it took 50-odd posts to get to it.
The alternatives are some serious static route configuration or wireless isolation as per the Netgear DG834G (bit better than just seperate SSIDs).
Personally if I was running a business (from a cable modem?!) and the in-laws wanted to use the internet at my house, I'd get them to pay for their own ADSL connection and routers, hey if they can afford to build a house, they can afford 20 Bucks a month.
Best way to generate unmaintainable code: use Java
All that Public Static Void Private Uses Extends crap is confusing enough as it is.
Fallic?!
Fallesque?
Fally?
"viewers will have to agree to participate in a special file-sharing network. This approach helps AOL reduce the cost of distributing-high quality video files by passing portions of the video files from one user's computer to another."
;-)
So I assume AOL are being sensible and using the open, tried and truster BitTorrent? On no wait, this is AOL, they'll need to write some ActiveX plugin for MSIE or something.
"AOL says that since it will control the network, it can protect users from the sorts of viruses and spyware that infect other peer-to-peer systems."
So are AOL *TIME WARNER* going to stop the MPAA/RIAA/Sony poisoning their P2P network then?
Are we going to have to write a AOL proprietary-to-BitTorrent wrapper, or is one of us going to download everything and then torrent it?
I assume it's all going to be shows we don't want to see anyway, or stuff they can't make a Buck out of on [un]remastered DVD?
i'm not sure if it's actually php's fault, it seems that because it's such an easy and available language (on every web host by default) it attracts n00bs a bit too much - the kind of people who are graphics designers who fancy themselves as programmers or 'web developers'. then there's the books - i've seen way too many tutorials telling the user to do extract($_GET); and things like that, sql injection anyone? the whole addslashes() stuff is a bit confusing too - there are so many functions that do something very similar (plus php.ini options too). i personally haven't touched php in over a year (i mainly got tired of working with crap programmers and the slowness of the xml parser), but recently tried php5, doesn't seem to be any security features added - something like perl's taint mode would be nice.
yeah, especially now it's been revealed that sony also has a kernel rootkit for mac osx....
Because they have more users - as they've been going longer than GMail, and hey you can't even sign up for GMail unless you're invited and live in the US!
Exactly.
That's why it was originally called "Redundant Array of *Inexpensive* Drives", not Independent.
The whole point was to make a large "virtual" drive for a lot less than a buying a single huge drive, performance wasn't the primary concern.
I usually go by:
Seagate - most reliable, quietest, longest (5 year) warranty;
Maxtor - cheapest, they moved from a 3 year warranty to 1 year as most drives would die after 2 years;
WD - not always compatible (weird CHS values), fastest, most expensive;
IBM - they gained the "Deathstar" nickname for good reason!
Not sure if the IBM position has changed now they bought Hitachi, I doubt it as Hitachi used to concentrate on 1.8-2.5" drives, so size not reliability/performance counts.
Certainly a deal clencher for me, buy an AMD64 and get no more Flash popups and intro pages!
Makes FlashBlock a little redundant now though....
I downloaded the GPL Quake3, and well, it's not as if it will just run.
.PAK files etc.
.PAK files from a pre-installed Windows version (not even straight off the CDs) is not OSS.
You have to compile it first, which I don't believe is straightforward, it still pretty much needs porting, then you have to already have a Windows version to get to the
So you certainly can't download Quake3 (or RTCW) for Linux and just play it.
Releasing the source to a game ENGINE but forcing you to buy the Windows version to play it is not OSS.
Making a Linux client for a game that requires a Windows version to play it is not OSS.
Making a Windows game and not even making a Linux installer but forcing the user to copy around
I'll buy Quake4 when they release the Linux version in the same box as the Windows version with a proper installer.