I just wrote a bit of Sieve to automatically redirect a copy of every incoming message to my GMail account. That way I have the nice, familiar FastMail address and interface (plus IMAP+Thunderbird+EnigMail!) and a backup that I will probably never fill.
They used to be an amazing game maker. They should invest $500 million in a new Sam & Max game, and Lucas should have to cry at least one tear on each box... as penance.
How am I supposed to get a job now?
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My carefully cultivated bullshitting skills... now rendered useless!!!
Tribes: Vengeance really bugs me. Tribes 2 had a native GNU/Linux port. Tribes: Vengeance uses the Unreal engine, which has already been ported to GNU/Linux in several incarnations. Why can't Sierra just go to Icculus and say, "Remember what you did with Postal 2? Do the same thing, but with T:V."
So why can Postal 2 and Tribes 2 get ported, while T:V and HL2 can't? Valve could take a tiny fraction of the millions they're going to make off of HL2 and make a Linux client, at least to throw the dedicated server admins a bone.
This could have some real potential. They could introduce XMPP server-side history (searchable through GMail and Google Desktop), and server-to-server SSL, and avatars, and Ogg Speex voice chat... *drool*
There is a lot of cool stuff in Jabber that most client authors aren't bothering with, usually because the really interesting stuff is a moving target. Maybe if Google came in and threw its weight around we can make some real progress and catch up to AIM, MSN, Y!, etc.
Same here in Canada, except our Liberal party's orientation occasionally varies wildly by party leader and member. Lately their policy seems to be to preach the left-wing NDP's platform, only less convincingly, and then promptly implement the right-wing Conservative platform, only less competently. Most Canadians see this as balancing out into being centrist, which is what the Liberals claim to be. I'm represented by Liberals at the provincial and federal levels. The former loudly proclaimed during an all-candidates meeting that homosexual relationships are an "affront to God." The latter promised to champion against pro-choice bills, no matter what party policy might dictate.
The same thing that will happen to all serious Free software development: it will eventually migrate out of the United States where it can continue unhindered by insane patent and export laws. The finished product will find its way back into the US via FreeNet/WASTE/etc.
Usually the inefficiency that the papers cry out against is the fact that most government-owned businesses pay a living wage and benefits to operational employees. Bus drivers, street sweepers and garbage collectors all make a pretty healthy salary, but there are plenty of big companies that would love to take over that infrastructure, replace them with minimum wage workers and keep the difference. Snow clearing was recently privatized in Toronto, right before that time we had to call in the Army to help us clear out our huge backlog of snow. Coincidentally, the cost of our municipal snow-clearing is not noticeably cheaper, and the federal government had to pay a bunch of soldiers to drive rented snowploughs. And look at California's private power generation. They pay way more than we do and still experience rolling blackouts. This is the kind of system that the Progressive Conservatives are pushing for in Ontario.
I don't see anything wrong with taxpayers helping out an ISP if it were a monopoly. You could treat it just the same as power or water. I would throw landline phone access into that mix as well. The government could save a lot of money by taking over Internet and phone access for hospitals and schools, instead of contracting out huge corporations to provide it (that's really where government corruption comes into play, when contracts get written with powerful corporations.)
Profits are usually a lot more expensive than providing a living wage to your employees (which is why many companies that specialize in the former very rarely engage in the latter).
I wish that my city would do this. Most of the ISPs in Toronto are so problematic and greedy*, it would be great if there was a government-owned ISP that provided DSL and WiFi access. Of course, it would have to have very progressive privacy policy.;)
It would be a lot cheaper (assuming the city wasn't in it to make a profit), and it could run at a loss - that is, if a resession hit and the local cable monopoly started raising prices and cutting service, the government-owned ISP could keep high-tech businesses and citizens working.
*Rogers cable sucks and Bell-owned Sympatico sucks. Look is very decent (no upload/download cap, run the services you want, very reliable, you can buy your own modem, and they run an apt repository), but I have a friend in Aurora who's paying $40/month for 9Mbps cable access! Why isn't this happening in TO?
Try FastMail instead. The Guest level account was enough for me (it's certainly far better than Hotmail!) but I upgraded to Member and now Full is starting to look pretty good.
600MB of storage for $20 a year. Also, 20MB of public/private file storage, and the sweet subdomain addressing feature (which has managed to keep me spam-free for two years!)
Electronics Recycling takes all kinds of stuff. They recycle everything on the Accepted Materials list. Best of all, if you drop it off there's no charge!
They have a location in Scarborough at: Unit# 14 - 80 Midwest Rd Scarborough ON M10 4R2 416-285-0588 9-5 Monday to Friday
We use them all the time. It's way better than paying the city to just have the stuff tossed in the dump anyway.
Seriously, go to the All Candidates Meetings in the upcoming election. Chances are that the NDP candidate will be the only one who's well informed and has any kind of debating skill.
For example, in my riding the Liberal candidate refused to debate and would only participate if she was given the questions in advance and allowed to bring pre-written speeches as answers. The Progressive Conservative's retorts consisted mostly of, "That's a lie!"
Well, the Liberal won, and sure enough she can't perform in legislature to save her life.
At least strongarm your rep into implementing proportional representation! That's the first step in fixing this democracy.
Well, since P2P fileswapping no longer constitutes copyright infringement, I guess I can upload "pirated" software, movies and other similar media. However, I can only legally download copyrighted music.
Software that is licensed under the GPL does not have to be released to the public.
All that the GPL really says is that what you're selling/giving away is the source (any available binaries are provided as a convenience), along with the same rights to that source that you had.
So, I could modify Linux and sell it to you as long as I sold you the source. You could take what I sold you and
contribute it to the main kernel tree
rebrand and resell it
modify it for your own needs and keep it all to yourself
etc, etc
As previous posters have pointed out, the three CC licenses are "do whatever you want with this, I don't care," "do whatever you want with this, but give me credit," and "this work is copyleft."
The Netgear RT310/RT314 routers are actually just rebranded ZyXEL Prestige P310/P314 routers.
ZyXEL continued to update the firmware while Netgear did not. You can download patched ZyXEL firmware that can be used in the Netgear routers from netgear.org.
Also, read netgear.org for tips and tricks (such as tricking your router into ignoring ICMP pings).
Unfortunately the community hasn't settled on a standard implementation yet. Several clients do support file transfer, but they're based on incompatible standards that weren't even fully written.
If Skype can set up voice chat through any firewall or NAT, then Jabber can do it for its bytestreams.
Sure, Jabber may not be able to do video or voice chat... or organize multiplayer games... or even do simple file transfer...
but we are (so far) worm free! Start to convert your friends for their own safety!
Just try to keep from discussing anything involving bytestreams... or play it up! "Hey, if you can't receive files, you can't receive worms!"
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I seem to recall the UK dealing mostly in PD software. We definitely paid around $60 per game and $75 for programs like GEOS at the big Commodore expos here in Toronto.
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Well, what did you expect?
$60-$80 in 80s dollars for something like Rick Dangerous or Lemmings? I mean, the games were fun, but come on.
Also, I remember the "copy protection" on the legitimate software that I owned destroying my drives.
Of course, software's still way overpriced and "copy protection" still sucks, but at least we have Free software alternatives.
Apple's in a very good position right now - they've managed to get themselves into the good books of both the Free software community and the music industry.
However, if they add Ogg Vorbis support to the iPod then they'll have to
add DRM technology to the Ogg container format, thereby pissing off the Free software people
or add support for another DRM-free format to their player, and infuriate the music industry
It seems that they are pursuing the third option: ignore Ogg Vorbis and piss off the very small (and to them, not particularly useful) Xiph community.
Our crappy Liberal party decided that we didn't deserve the fusion reactor and dropped Canada out of the race. It's too bad because we were thought to have a pretty good site lined up.
They talked about it in a recent Quirks and Quarks episode (available in Ogg Vorbis!) Really sad.:(
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I just wrote a bit of Sieve to automatically redirect a copy of every incoming message to my GMail account. That way I have the nice, familiar FastMail address and interface (plus IMAP+Thunderbird+EnigMail!) and a backup that I will probably never fill.
They used to be an amazing game maker. They should invest $500 million in a new Sam & Max game, and Lucas should have to cry at least one tear on each box... as penance.
My carefully cultivated bullshitting skills... now rendered useless!!!
the student/IT worker's best friend, Portable Firefox. Works great off of my USB keydrive. :D
Tribes: Vengeance really bugs me. Tribes 2 had a native GNU/Linux port. Tribes: Vengeance uses the Unreal engine, which has already been ported to GNU/Linux in several incarnations. Why can't Sierra just go to Icculus and say, "Remember what you did with Postal 2? Do the same thing, but with T:V."
So why can Postal 2 and Tribes 2 get ported, while T:V and HL2 can't? Valve could take a tiny fraction of the millions they're going to make off of HL2 and make a Linux client, at least to throw the dedicated server admins a bone.
Only accept a source you can trust - drink your own urine!
This could have some real potential. They could introduce XMPP server-side history (searchable through GMail and Google Desktop), and server-to-server SSL, and avatars, and Ogg Speex voice chat... *drool*
There is a lot of cool stuff in Jabber that most client authors aren't bothering with, usually because the really interesting stuff is a moving target. Maybe if Google came in and threw its weight around we can make some real progress and catch up to AIM, MSN, Y!, etc.
Same here in Canada, except our Liberal party's orientation occasionally varies wildly by party leader and member. Lately their policy seems to be to preach the left-wing NDP's platform, only less convincingly, and then promptly implement the right-wing Conservative platform, only less competently. Most Canadians see this as balancing out into being centrist, which is what the Liberals claim to be.
I'm represented by Liberals at the provincial and federal levels. The former loudly proclaimed during an all-candidates meeting that homosexual relationships are an "affront to God." The latter promised to champion against pro-choice bills, no matter what party policy might dictate.
The same thing that will happen to all serious Free software development: it will eventually migrate out of the United States where it can continue unhindered by insane patent and export laws. The finished product will find its way back into the US via FreeNet/WASTE/etc.
Usually the inefficiency that the papers cry out against is the fact that most government-owned businesses pay a living wage and benefits to operational employees. Bus drivers, street sweepers and garbage collectors all make a pretty healthy salary, but there are plenty of big companies that would love to take over that infrastructure, replace them with minimum wage workers and keep the difference.
Snow clearing was recently privatized in Toronto, right before that time we had to call in the Army to help us clear out our huge backlog of snow. Coincidentally, the cost of our municipal snow-clearing is not noticeably cheaper, and the federal government had to pay a bunch of soldiers to drive rented snowploughs.
And look at California's private power generation. They pay way more than we do and still experience rolling blackouts. This is the kind of system that the Progressive Conservatives are pushing for in Ontario.
I don't see anything wrong with taxpayers helping out an ISP if it were a monopoly. You could treat it just the same as power or water. I would throw landline phone access into that mix as well.
The government could save a lot of money by taking over Internet and phone access for hospitals and schools, instead of contracting out huge corporations to provide it (that's really where government corruption comes into play, when contracts get written with powerful corporations.)
Profits are usually a lot more expensive than providing a living wage to your employees (which is why many companies that specialize in the former very rarely engage in the latter).
I wish that my city would do this. Most of the ISPs in Toronto are so problematic and greedy*, it would be great if there was a government-owned ISP that provided DSL and WiFi access. Of course, it would have to have very progressive privacy policy. ;)
It would be a lot cheaper (assuming the city wasn't in it to make a profit), and it could run at a loss - that is, if a resession hit and the local cable monopoly started raising prices and cutting service, the government-owned ISP could keep high-tech businesses and citizens working.
*Rogers cable sucks and Bell-owned Sympatico sucks. Look is very decent (no upload/download cap, run the services you want, very reliable, you can buy your own modem, and they run an apt repository), but I have a friend in Aurora who's paying $40/month for 9Mbps cable access! Why isn't this happening in TO?
Try FastMail instead. The Guest level account was enough for me (it's certainly far better than Hotmail!) but I upgraded to Member and now Full is starting to look pretty good.
600MB of storage for $20 a year. Also, 20MB of public/private file storage, and the sweet subdomain addressing feature (which has managed to keep me spam-free for two years!)
Electronics Recycling takes all kinds of stuff. They recycle everything on the Accepted Materials list. Best of all, if you drop it off there's no charge!
They have a location in Scarborough at:
Unit# 14 - 80 Midwest Rd
Scarborough ON M10 4R2
416-285-0588
9-5 Monday to Friday
We use them all the time. It's way better than paying the city to just have the stuff tossed in the dump anyway.
Conservatives are somehow going to be any different, disagree.
Which is why I'll be voting for the New Democrats.
Seriously, go to the All Candidates Meetings in the upcoming election. Chances are that the NDP candidate will be the only one who's well informed and has any kind of debating skill.
For example, in my riding the Liberal candidate refused to debate and would only participate if she was given the questions in advance and allowed to bring pre-written speeches as answers. The Progressive Conservative's retorts consisted mostly of, "That's a lie!"
Well, the Liberal won, and sure enough she can't perform in legislature to save her life.
At least strongarm your rep into implementing proportional representation! That's the first step in fixing this democracy.
Well, since P2P fileswapping no longer constitutes copyright infringement, I guess I can upload "pirated" software, movies and other similar media. However, I can only legally download copyrighted music.
Privacy of the people = security risk
Privacy of politicians = security measure
All that the GPL really says is that what you're selling/giving away is the source (any available binaries are provided as a convenience), along with the same rights to that source that you had.
So, I could modify Linux and sell it to you as long as I sold you the source. You could take what I sold you and
As previous posters have pointed out, the three CC licenses are "do whatever you want with this, I don't care," "do whatever you want with this, but give me credit," and "this work is copyleft."
The Netgear RT310/RT314 routers are actually just rebranded ZyXEL Prestige P310/P314 routers.
ZyXEL continued to update the firmware while Netgear did not. You can download patched ZyXEL firmware that can be used in the Netgear routers from netgear.org.
Also, read netgear.org for tips and tricks (such as tricking your router into ignoring ICMP pings).
how do they expect us to afford their software?
Unfortunately the community hasn't settled on a standard implementation yet. Several clients do support file transfer, but they're based on incompatible standards that weren't even fully written.
If Skype can set up voice chat through any firewall or NAT, then Jabber can do it for its bytestreams.
Sure, Jabber may not be able to do video or voice chat... or organize multiplayer games... or even do simple file transfer...
but we are (so far) worm free! Start to convert your friends for their own safety!
Just try to keep from discussing anything involving bytestreams... or play it up! "Hey, if you can't receive files, you can't receive worms!"
I seem to recall the UK dealing mostly in PD software. We definitely paid around $60 per game and $75 for programs like GEOS at the big Commodore expos here in Toronto.
Well, what did you expect?
$60-$80 in 80s dollars for something like Rick Dangerous or Lemmings? I mean, the games were fun, but come on.
Also, I remember the "copy protection" on the legitimate software that I owned destroying my drives.
Of course, software's still way overpriced and "copy protection" still sucks, but at least we have Free software alternatives.
Apple's in a very good position right now - they've managed to get themselves into the good books of both the Free software community and the music industry.
However, if they add Ogg Vorbis support to the iPod then they'll have to
It seems that they are pursuing the third option: ignore Ogg Vorbis and piss off the very small (and to them, not particularly useful) Xiph community.
Our crappy Liberal party decided that we didn't deserve the fusion reactor and dropped Canada out of the race. It's too bad because we were thought to have a pretty good site lined up.
:(
They talked about it in a recent Quirks and Quarks episode (available in Ogg Vorbis!) Really sad.