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Come On, CmdrTaco.
Making a claim like "clean HTML" and blocking w3c's validaton tool? Bad optics for standards compliance...
In all fairness, when copy/pasting the HTML source, I got less than a score of errors, which IS an all time low.
Result: Failed validation, 16 errors File: upload://Form Submission Encoding: iso-8859-1 Doctype: HTML 4.01 Strict This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Strict!
The solution support automatically to detect infected computers by monitoring the network activity and isolate them.
I'm accustomed to technical descriptions occasionally lapsing into arcana, but come on. Is a grammatically correct sentence too much to ask? Sure, you might say 'But you were able to figure out what they meant', but the fact is I had to work to get the drift of it, and I know I may have misinterpreted something. I suspect they weren't sure what they wanted to say.
Come on, Zonk, why did you decide that this was worth putting up? Time pressure and quotas?
Holy putting words in my mouth, batman.
I don't refuse to accept MS Office documents. I do inform people who send them that there is no guarantee that they're actually engaging in communication with me. I can freely deny that MS Office is the most complete and well integrated suite available for any OS at this point; in my experience, Word isn't even integrated with itself. How many different versions of Office exist? Some incompatibilities between the various versions are well known and obvious, others are subtle and hard to identify and may well bite someone in the ass real soon now. The illegal monopoly part, while true, is a lesser concern of mine, and I'm hoping that the slavery is a rhetorical device on your part.
I'm not trying to change the world, I'm trying to change my life. I won't buy or pirate Microsoft products any more. There's a wide range of labels you can put on my behaviour: zealot, obstinate, firm, not easily swayed, resolute, steadfast. I'm sure an English major can fill in the gaps and pad out the ends. Yes, it's inconvenient for me sometimes, but if I gave up my principles because they were momentarily inconvenient, what kind of principles would they be?
And I, for one, don't block it at the mail filter. It's too much fun to read through the verious revisions.
and you are letting folk email you MS Office documents instead of open format documents because... ?
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You cannot clean a compromised system with tools running within that system, even in Safe Mode. That's like asking your mayor if s/he's been bribed or not and expecting an honest answer just because the question has been posed during a public council meeting. Wipe, and install from scratch. I would count those ~2 hours as lost in the sense that the system may not have been fixed; you'd probably have been better off watching a funny movie with kith and kin.
Try googling rootkit. *nix has been around ~35 years, and not with a perfect security record. *nix admins hae been dealing with breaches for a long time. While the *nix mindset has come up with clever tricks to detect rootkits I have yet to hear anyone sucessfully defend cleaning any system from within itself. The problem with this approach has nothing to do with *nix and applies across multiple platforms. Because the system is compromised, you can't trust ANYTHING the system tells you about itself, or any tools that use the system to gather information about the system.
I'm hard pressed to imagine an operating system where this would not be the case, but perhaps others would enlighten me.
I can't recall if it was Pike, Kernighan, Ritchie or Raymond that said function length is a better indicator of quality than indentation. I have just recently re-read 'The C Programming Language', 'The Art of Unix Programming', and 'The Practice of Programming' all in the same month, and it starts to blurrrrrr.
clever hobbitses want to help where iss gun?
but, nullprog is friend, triess to help us learn nullprog is trickses! wants us to be next to the eye
NO! he tries to fight the undocumentations, is good! here is gun, preciousss, but where isss bullet?
I was a telus customer (until this afternoon). I read over the terms and conditions, and the claim the VPCR makes about the contract allowing them to do that is, well, bullshit.
when i first signed up with them, i saved a copy of the T+C's locally and made a script to diff the current terms and the original terms (I'm lazy, hey? get a computer to do repetitive tasks), and when i checked this morning there were no changes between then and now.
they were supposed to be my ISP, not my nanny. if they thought what the union website had available was illegal, they should have talked to a judge first (makes me wonder, did the lawyers at telus go on stike too?). what telus chose to do was just idiotic. all routing to the machine's IP got dropped. maybe that machine had other websites on it? lawyers, here's your chance at a good feeding frenzy...
Meh.
I would say that the wayback machine disagrees with you. I could not find ANYTHING on the archived grokster site snapshots promoting illegal activites, and i went all the way back to the start of 2004.
Based on this, I hurl an ${INSULT} at your ${REVERED}, and an "Unfair" at your moderator.
A very interesting link. Thank you. Next time, you might add "[morale-draining registration required]" as a warning. What are those goofs at SMH thinking, if in fact they were?
Look, if you think Bush isn't a dictator, you either haven't been paying attention or are using a -very- funky dictionary.
From WordNet 2.0:
dictator
n 1: a speaker who dictates to a secretary or a recording machine
2: a ruler who is unconstrained by law [syn: {potentate}]
3: a person behaves in an tyrannical manner; "my boss is a
dictator who makes everyone work overtime" [syn: {authoritarian}]
He's managed to sidestep the US Congress to initiate a war (of aggression, no less, which in itself violates the laws of the Unted States) against an opponent whose capacity for resistance had been...minimal. Hint: search for who said, "...unable to raise conventional forces against his neighbors...". Once you've answered that to your own satisfaction, ask "What are the odds that this person could have bent the president's ear at some point?".
Oh, and in case I was unclear, I got two words for you: due process.
Newspaper ads are given no priority over the content; that's the difference.
Look at the top right corner of page 3 of your newspaper. If your newspaper has had any contact with 'modern' marketing techniques, you'll see an ad.
BTW, I agree with Bill Hicks on this: if you are a marketer, stop researching demographics and kill yourself now.
"...and they run on more hardware than enybody else."
Much as I love debian, this is not true.
Debian: 10 CPU types, and two ports that "never took part in a Debian stable release".
NetBSD: 17 CPU types covering almost 50 hardware platforms (plus 6 experimental).
The only reason that I'm not running netBSD at the moment is because the installation process for my hardware is so convoluted, no, really, it's so convoluted, how can i put this? installing debian was possible on my machine back when I had no knowledge of linux and an unwillingness to ask for help. After five years of experience with various flavours of unix, linux and bsd, I lost two weekends in a row trying to get netBSD installed before coming to the realization that, though it could -run- on my hardware, it could not -install- on my hardware without the assistance of either a second machine or a special monitor, after which it should run just fine.
Let me be clear about this: if this thread is indicative, you probably need professional help. Really. To wit:
I intuatively *know* I am sane and correct in my reasoning...
Expect a visit from the nice men in white jackets soon. A sure hallmarks of insanity is denying to yourself that you could be. The last time anyone called me crazy was while I was funking out on an electric guitar, badly, and my IQ is on the flat part of the bell curve. You also may be well adapted to your environment most of the time (and it wouldn't be hard for you to be a better guitar player), and your IQ may be equally high. But the sum of what intuition can verify about our sanity and the correctness of our reasoning is exactly nothing. Zero. The Void. Intuition can guide us to investigate the most likely flaws in our reasoning processes, and even to question sanity, but the moment you use intuition to vet your sanity or reason is the moment you have become a danger to me and mine.
So please, have a talk with your doctor, or learn the rudiments of logic before returning. Maybe both. Determining where exactly your thinking is messed up is beyond my level of expertise. I recommend Robert H. Thoules' _Straight_and_Crooked_Thinking_. It covers the basics thouroughly and briefly. It'll get you up to speed so that you can talk with the sentients at the watering hole in no time. It's also much cheaper than a university class, but if you've got the money and schedule, a course in formal logic is not a waste of time. Judging from your seriously out of date resume, you'd be able to deal with the course material.
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Come On, CmdrTaco.
Making a claim like "clean HTML" and blocking w3c's validaton tool? Bad optics for standards compliance...
In all fairness, when copy/pasting the HTML source, I got less than a score of errors, which IS an all time low.
Result: Failed validation, 16 errors
File: upload://Form Submission
Encoding: iso-8859-1
Doctype: HTML 4.01 Strict
This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Strict!
01
For quick comparison, I've assembled the links from their docs page:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/windows.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/cygwin.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/netware.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mpeix.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/unixware.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/readme-tpf.html
Come on, Zonk, why did you decide that this was worth putting up? Time pressure and quotas?
Holy putting words in my mouth, batman.
I don't refuse to accept MS Office documents. I do inform people who send them that there is no guarantee that they're actually engaging in communication with me. I can freely deny that MS Office is the most complete and well integrated suite available for any OS at this point; in my experience, Word isn't even integrated with itself. How many different versions of Office exist? Some incompatibilities between the various versions are well known and obvious, others are subtle and hard to identify and may well bite someone in the ass real soon now. The illegal monopoly part, while true, is a lesser concern of mine, and I'm hoping that the slavery is a rhetorical device on your part.
I'm not trying to change the world, I'm trying to change my life. I won't buy or pirate Microsoft products any more. There's a wide range of labels you can put on my behaviour: zealot, obstinate, firm, not easily swayed, resolute, steadfast. I'm sure an English major can fill in the gaps and pad out the ends. Yes, it's inconvenient for me sometimes, but if I gave up my principles because they were momentarily inconvenient, what kind of principles would they be?
And I, for one, don't block it at the mail filter. It's too much fun to read through the verious revisions.
and you are letting folk email you MS Office documents instead of open format documents because ... ?
You cannot clean a compromised system with tools running within that system, even in Safe Mode. That's like asking your mayor if s/he's been bribed or not and expecting an honest answer just because the question has been posed during a public council meeting. Wipe, and install from scratch. I would count those ~2 hours as lost in the sense that the system may not have been fixed; you'd probably have been better off watching a funny movie with kith and kin.
Try googling rootkit. *nix has been around ~35 years, and not with a perfect security record. *nix admins hae been dealing with breaches for a long time. While the *nix mindset has come up with clever tricks to detect rootkits I have yet to hear anyone sucessfully defend cleaning any system from within itself. The problem with this approach has nothing to do with *nix and applies across multiple platforms. Because the system is compromised, you can't trust ANYTHING the system tells you about itself, or any tools that use the system to gather information about the system.
I'm hard pressed to imagine an operating system where this would not be the case, but perhaps others would enlighten me.
Thank you. I sit edified.
No, not time to move on, becauses your alleged president is still in office. His election was so faked up it's not at all funny.
I can't recall if it was Pike, Kernighan, Ritchie or Raymond that said function length is a better indicator of quality than indentation. I have just recently re-read 'The C Programming Language', 'The Art of Unix Programming', and 'The Practice of Programming' all in the same month, and it starts to blurrrrrr.
my $0.02
It could be a flash animation...
clever hobbitses want to help where iss gun?
but, nullprog is friend, triess to help us learn
nullprog is trickses! wants us to be next to the eye
NO! he tries to fight the undocumentations, is good!
here is gun, preciousss, but where isss bullet?
You must be referring to the use of proper grammar in
Zonk, did you (or a family member) have surgery today or something?
I was a telus customer (until this afternoon). I read over the terms and conditions, and the claim the VPCR makes about the contract allowing them to do that is, well, bullshit.
when i first signed up with them, i saved a copy of the T+C's locally and made a script to diff the current terms and the original terms (I'm lazy, hey? get a computer to do repetitive tasks), and when i checked this morning there were no changes between then and now.
they were supposed to be my ISP, not my nanny. if they thought what the union website had available was illegal, they should have talked to a judge first (makes me wonder, did the lawyers at telus go on stike too?). what telus chose to do was just idiotic. all routing to the machine's IP got dropped. maybe that machine had other websites on it? lawyers, here's your chance at a good feeding frenzy...
I say we call the next release of apache that addresses any of these concerns the 'Appaloosa' web server, then.
this was my point, but you made it better than i did.
Meh.
I would say that the wayback machine disagrees with you. I could not find ANYTHING on the archived grokster site snapshots promoting illegal activites, and i went all the way back to the start of 2004.
Based on this, I hurl an ${INSULT} at your ${REVERED}, and an "Unfair" at your moderator.
A very interesting link. Thank you. Next time, you might add "[morale-draining registration required]" as a warning. What are those goofs at SMH thinking, if in fact they were?
From WordNet 2.0: He's managed to sidestep the US Congress to initiate a war (of aggression, no less, which in itself violates the laws of the Unted States) against an opponent whose capacity for resistance had been...minimal. Hint: search for who said, "...unable to raise conventional forces against his neighbors...". Once you've answered that to your own satisfaction, ask "What are the odds that this person could have bent the president's ear at some point?".
Oh, and in case I was unclear, I got two words for you: due process.
BTW, I agree with Bill Hicks on this: if you are a marketer, stop researching demographics and kill yourself now.
notext-yes,offtopic.sorry.
To see a quote from "The Art of Unix Programming" validly used in the context of piercings - hard to say who should get more kudos, you or ESR.
"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?
If it does, none dare call it treason."
- John Harrington ?
ouch! I stand corrected, my misunderstanding. put a jalepeno in my root beer.
Debian: 10 CPU types, and two ports that "never took part in a Debian stable release".
NetBSD: 17 CPU types covering almost 50 hardware platforms (plus 6 experimental).
The only reason that I'm not running netBSD at the moment is because the installation process for my hardware is so convoluted, no, really, it's so convoluted, how can i put this? installing debian was possible on my machine back when I had no knowledge of linux and an unwillingness to ask for help. After five years of experience with various flavours of unix, linux and bsd, I lost two weekends in a row trying to get netBSD installed before coming to the realization that, though it could -run- on my hardware, it could not -install- on my hardware without the assistance of either a second machine or a special monitor, after which it should run just fine.
So please, have a talk with your doctor, or learn the rudiments of logic before returning. Maybe both. Determining where exactly your thinking is messed up is beyond my level of expertise. I recommend Robert H. Thoules' _Straight_and_Crooked_Thinking_. It covers the basics thouroughly and briefly. It'll get you up to speed so that you can talk with the sentients at the watering hole in no time. It's also much cheaper than a university class, but if you've got the money and schedule, a course in formal logic is not a waste of time. Judging from your seriously out of date resume, you'd be able to deal with the course material.
i sit corrected, or at least with a more open mind.
slowed to a halt is charitable. it's moving about as fast as a drunken snail.