In Ubuntu since edgy, sh has been symlinked to dash instead. This allowed for a much faster boot while breaking all the "sh" scripts that used bash-specific syntax.
There was a bunch of whining about it when it happened but I think everyone fixed their scripts and shut up.
Up in my closet somewhere I have a PC/POTS switch. It allows you to flip a switch between receiving audio input from the PC and audio input from a POTS system, all on the same headset. It's really simple and I've never used it but I recall that it does work.
It's remarkably simple and I can't remember the name of it for the life of me.
If you want it, my email address has been unmasked enough for you to email me. I'll send it to you for cost of shipping.
As per the subject line, this is going to end badly.
I do, however, find it interesting that this astroturfing is being done so publicly. Before the sources were always hidden, as if the originators seemed ashamed of it.
Now they're acting as if it seems to be business as usual.
Are party supporters allowed to have their own opinion these days? Anecodatal evidence suggests that there is a hive mind forming.
I don't think so. Pay-per-access (such as having to pay for a video codec) would be directly against the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Encoding to something patent-encumbered (even if it's standard, like MPEG) would be shooting themselves in the foot with a shotgun in the longrun as opposed to a.22LR with Theora and Vorbis.
You know you can just replace the power brick, right?
Anything that outputs the same voltage and tip polarity should do the trick...
Unless you are insinuating that the new VxWorks wrt's take a different supply voltage, and that the supply voltage for the older wrt models will inherently lead to inefficiency...which I doubt.
It seems like that all of the really-close-but-not-quite naming schemes meant to cause confusion have finally confused even Microsoft's *marketing* people.
I have a feeling this will get turned on its head: "oh, we really meant OOXML, sorry!"
I suspect that the ebook readers will support DRM, so that the current industry of textbook makers will be appeased enough to produce books for this thing.
If I'm correct, it's just one closer step towards Stallman's right-to-read fiction. While it's fiction, it's still possible...and scary.
The XO has a quite sufficient PDF reader. It's not perfect (it gets a little chokey on big files) but it handles most files perfectly well.
OLPC now seems to want to mean 'One License Per Child' in my head. The reasons Prof. Negroponte gives are the same ones you see from astroturfers. Has he been bought, or what?
"OOXML not only defines today's document technologies, but has built in support for emergining technologies and has detailed specifications for adding new technologies in the future that are far more elegant than a reference point and freaking Zip file with the content like you get with ODF."
This was almost taken seriously until I saw this point... OOXML is a zip file too. Do your homework better, astroturfer.
Environment? It's commonly accepted knowledge around here that later versions of MS operating systems require beefier hardware and upgrades than certain darling competitors. (I'm running modern versions of Ubuntu on computers my workplace was throwing out.)
That's increased power, more equipment that has to be recycled (lest it be landfilled), and more goverment money that could be spent on an environmental or human health program that instead goes into the pockets of an American Corporation.
To be honest, it's actually a rule that should be followed, not some stupid play for power and media attention. Those convicted of abusing their power aren't eligible for government contracts.
I opted-out of the API and blacklisted every application I could find.
Attempting to add even one will opt you back in, ostensibly because you have to manually add the application. (I don't see this as a WTF.)
However it's quite annoying because if I don't want to see any information in my mini-feed about application spam I have to blacklist every application my friends add. (Blacklists, as we know here on/., suck.)
"We see you have opted out. These are all the wonderful things you are missing! Please opt back in! Please, please please?!"
I have a feeling that WEP and this law is going to end up being like the DMCA and encryption--the fact that it's poor has nothing to do with the fact that it's there.
You had to break the encryption to connect, no matter how laughably trivial. A bicycle locked with a cable-lock is still locked, even if you can open it with a ballpoint pen. It's still illegal to steal the bike. The law is trying to apply that concept--they just don't have it correct yet.
"OOXML types (docx, xlsx, pptx) are the default file types in Office 2007, which has been out now for over a year."
That's not 'standard' OOXML--that's Office 2007's approximation to what was submitted to ECMA, and even it doesn't really comply with what was submitted. (BIFF is alive and well; VML is not "deprecated" because you can have it created in brand new documents, etc.)
It is a partial implementation and not an implementation of what was submitted, let alone what the standard is now (because that's kinda impossible at the moment as it hasn't settled.)
>Well, if you can break into the house twice without being detected
Bump keys.
>Who cares about the magic iris watermark.
It's going to be presented in court as something like "as effective as DNA evidence" blah blah blah
My girlfriend has really dark irises. Any camera I have like this...those who examine the metadata will wonder why there's a picture of my middle fingernail instead.
I've turned off the API (had to remove all the applications that aren't built-in to Facebook to do so, but I knew that)...And I still get spam in my news feed from some friend adding an Application.
I block every single one my friends add, mainly because blocking an application turns off the spam in the news feed from all the applications. It's common knowledge on Slashdot: blacklists suck.
I'm actually trying to use Facebook in the manner it was prescribed, but in order to protect some semblance of my information I have to be very choosy in what I provide.
There is no balance. It's either world-viewable or non-existent.
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What makes you think she's mid-twenties? She certainly seems a lot older in some of the references she makes. I'd place her around 40.
In Ubuntu since edgy, sh has been symlinked to dash instead. This allowed for a much faster boot while breaking all the "sh" scripts that used bash-specific syntax.
There was a bunch of whining about it when it happened but I think everyone fixed their scripts and shut up.
Up in my closet somewhere I have a PC/POTS switch. It allows you to flip a switch between receiving audio input from the PC and audio input from a POTS system, all on the same headset. It's really simple and I've never used it but I recall that it does work.
It's remarkably simple and I can't remember the name of it for the life of me.
If you want it, my email address has been unmasked enough for you to email me. I'll send it to you for cost of shipping.
I like to think that at some point in human history we'll look back at the wars and realize that 100% of the kills were team kills.
But perhaps that perspective just isn't ready for the world yet.
As per the subject line, this is going to end badly.
I do, however, find it interesting that this astroturfing is being done so publicly. Before the sources were always hidden, as if the originators seemed ashamed of it.
Now they're acting as if it seems to be business as usual.
Are party supporters allowed to have their own opinion these days? Anecodatal evidence suggests that there is a hive mind forming.
College students are highly irresponsible. You'll be replacing fobs left and right.
They'll also share them out or leave them in pools with the username taped to them...grab one, use it for a bit, put it back.
I don't think so. Pay-per-access (such as having to pay for a video codec) would be directly against the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Encoding to something patent-encumbered (even if it's standard, like MPEG) would be shooting themselves in the foot with a shotgun in the longrun as opposed to a .22LR with Theora and Vorbis.
With the experience on my ThinkPad A22m (an ancient model), GNOME reads data from the HAL, which in turn reads it from ACPI.
You know you can just replace the power brick, right?
Anything that outputs the same voltage and tip polarity should do the trick...
Unless you are insinuating that the new VxWorks wrt's take a different supply voltage, and that the supply voltage for the older wrt models will inherently lead to inefficiency...which I doubt.
Use your middle initial.
It seems like that all of the really-close-but-not-quite naming schemes meant to cause confusion have finally confused even Microsoft's *marketing* people.
I have a feeling this will get turned on its head: "oh, we really meant OOXML, sorry!"
I suspect that the ebook readers will support DRM, so that the current industry of textbook makers will be appeased enough to produce books for this thing.
If I'm correct, it's just one closer step towards Stallman's right-to-read fiction. While it's fiction, it's still possible...and scary.
The XO has a quite sufficient PDF reader. It's not perfect (it gets a little chokey on big files) but it handles most files perfectly well.
I don't have DRM-infected files.
OLPC now seems to want to mean 'One License Per Child' in my head. The reasons Prof. Negroponte gives are the same ones you see from astroturfers. Has he been bought, or what?
"OOXML not only defines today's document technologies, but has built in support for emergining technologies and has detailed specifications for adding new technologies in the future that are far more elegant than a reference point and freaking Zip file with the content like you get with ODF."
This was almost taken seriously until I saw this point... OOXML is a zip file too. Do your homework better, astroturfer.
ODF allows for extensions as well, you know.
Consider this. If Microsoft had not been such a bad boy, we would not be in this mess, now would we?
Environment? It's commonly accepted knowledge around here that later versions of MS operating systems require beefier hardware and upgrades than certain darling competitors. (I'm running modern versions of Ubuntu on computers my workplace was throwing out.)
That's increased power, more equipment that has to be recycled (lest it be landfilled), and more goverment money that could be spent on an environmental or human health program that instead goes into the pockets of an American Corporation.
To be honest, it's actually a rule that should be followed, not some stupid play for power and media attention. Those convicted of abusing their power aren't eligible for government contracts.
I opted-out of the API and blacklisted every application I could find.
Attempting to add even one will opt you back in, ostensibly because you have to manually add the application. (I don't see this as a WTF.)
However it's quite annoying because if I don't want to see any information in my mini-feed about application spam I have to blacklist every application my friends add. (Blacklists, as we know here on /., suck.)
"We see you have opted out. These are all the wonderful things you are missing! Please opt back in! Please, please please?!"
I have a feeling that WEP and this law is going to end up being like the DMCA and encryption--the fact that it's poor has nothing to do with the fact that it's there.
You had to break the encryption to connect, no matter how laughably trivial. A bicycle locked with a cable-lock is still locked, even if you can open it with a ballpoint pen. It's still illegal to steal the bike. The law is trying to apply that concept--they just don't have it correct yet.
configure /etc/interfaces -- give an ssid to the wireless card. Will always try that one first.
Possibly slightly insecure if you forget you did it, but it is a quick setup.
"OOXML types (docx, xlsx, pptx) are the default file types in Office 2007, which has been out now for over a year."
That's not 'standard' OOXML--that's Office 2007's approximation to what was submitted to ECMA, and even it doesn't really comply with what was submitted. (BIFF is alive and well; VML is not "deprecated" because you can have it created in brand new documents, etc.)
It is a partial implementation and not an implementation of what was submitted, let alone what the standard is now (because that's kinda impossible at the moment as it hasn't settled.)
GPL != EULA as you don't have to agree to the GPL.
>Well, if you can break into the house twice without being detected
Bump keys.
>Who cares about the magic iris watermark.
It's going to be presented in court as something like "as effective as DNA evidence" blah blah blah
My girlfriend has really dark irises. Any camera I have like this...those who examine the metadata will wonder why there's a picture of my middle fingernail instead.
I've turned off the API (had to remove all the applications that aren't built-in to Facebook to do so, but I knew that) ...And I still get spam in my news feed from some friend adding an Application.
I block every single one my friends add, mainly because blocking an application turns off the spam in the news feed from all the applications. It's common knowledge on Slashdot: blacklists suck.
I'm actually trying to use Facebook in the manner it was prescribed, but in order to protect some semblance of my information I have to be very choosy in what I provide.
There is no balance. It's either world-viewable or non-existent.
I love how he talked about SDMI being restricted as cartel behavior, but now he wants the ISPs to do the dirty work SDMI couldn't do.
SDMI bombed, and there are bitstrippers out there which have <buzzphrase>substantial non-infringing uses.</buzzphrase>
As if forcing another business to do the things you couldn't do due to antitrust reasons makes it any better...
Didn't Vista freeze OpenGL at something old-ass like 1.4?
Otherwise your argument holds much water.